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This memo updates previous guidance shared on March 16th, 2020.
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2020 @ 2:41 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Families who have flexible working arrangements are encouraged to stay at home with their children.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 @ 4:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is early morning now and pitch dark at the rabbitpatch. I seldom let an opportunity to complain about "changing the clocks" go by.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 @ 3:48 am
By: Michele Rhem
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NC Medicaid today announced several policy changes around the use of telemedicine in response to COVID-19.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 @ 3:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Health and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University are calling on all of eastern North Carolina to do their part to flatten the curve.
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2020 @ 11:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Health values family and community presence when loved ones and friends are in the hospital.
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2020 @ 5:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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For the first weekend in a while, I am at the rabbitpatch. We have big plans for Sunday -Daddys' -eighty fifth birthday party.
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2020 @ 6:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Or is it "The Life of Riley?"
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2020 @ 2:45 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has sought authority from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to temporarily waive certain Medicaid and NC Health Choice policies as part of North Carolina’s response to the COVID-19.
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2020 @ 11:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A certificate of need public hearing scheduled for 3 p.m. on March 19 in the Commissioners Room of the Carteret County Courthouse, 302 Courthouse Square, Beaufort, has been canceled.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2020 @ 11:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Health values family presence when loved ones are in the hospital.
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2020 @ 9:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Two people from Forsyth County and a person from Johnston County have tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total of positive cases in North Carolina to 12, including a Durham resident who tested positive in another state.
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2020 @ 8:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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An additional person from Wake County has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total of positive cases in North Carolina to eight.
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2020 @ 8:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Five more people in Wake County have tested presumptively positive today for COVID-19 (novel coronavirus).
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 @ 5:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Indiana State Department of Health notified North Carolina officials that a person who tested positive for COVID-19 on March 8 was in Durham and Wake counties on March 2 through March 6 while symptomatic.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 @ 3:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Bio-Medical Applications of North Carolina Inc. has filed a certificate of need application with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to relocate two dialysis stations
Published: Monday, March 9th, 2020 @ 7:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As the 2019 novel coronavirus – COVID-19 – continues to spread, Dr. Keith Ramsey, infection control chief for Vidant Health, said all Vidant facilities are prepared to treat patients who have the new virus.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 @ 8:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A second North Carolina person, unrelated to the first case, has tested positive for novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2020 @ 8:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation today announced that its Rural Forward NC Program Director Calvin Allen has been named to the Theory of Change Working Group for Thrive Rural
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2020 @ 3:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As North Carolina continues to prepare for the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, the NC State Laboratory of Public Health (NCSLPH) within the NC Department of Health and Human Services is now able to perform testing for the virus.
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2020 @ 8:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper’s Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Task Force continues to prepare for the possibility of COVID-19 infections occurring in North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 @ 9:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There is snow on the daffodils at the rabbitpatch
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 @ 8:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I used to have a lot of animals, here at the rabbitpatch. I had a miniature horse, miniature goats, chickens, doves, that came and went as they pleased and a lot of rabbits.
Published: Monday, February 24th, 2020 @ 10:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina is among 12 states selected by the U.S. Department of Labor to participate in an initiative to increase employment of people with disabilities.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 @ 11:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Saturday was the day of Mamas' birthday gathering. Her birthday is on Tuesday, but it is much easier to gather on a weekend.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 @ 9:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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After a lovely weekend in Elizabeth City, some sort of plague has set in, disturbing the peace of the rabbitpatch.
Published: Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 @ 8:21 am
By: Michele Rhem
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North Carolina is among states rated as high performers in public health emergency preparedness measures by a nonpartisan, nonprofit that advocates for optimal health for people and communities through prevention of illness and injuries.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2020 @ 8:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local health departments to respond to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 @ 5:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I am at the rabbitpatch this weekend. It has been a long time since I have said that.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2020 @ 11:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of North Carolina’s Medicaid program, which provides health coverage for low-income adults, children, pregnant women, seniors and people with disabilities throughout the state.
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2020 @ 5:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today released the final report on the public health investigation into an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in people who attended the NC Mountain State Fair held Sept. 6–15, 2019 at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center in Fletche
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2020 @ 9:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local health departments and health care providers to closely monitor the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that originated in Wuhan, China.
Published: Thursday, January 30th, 2020 @ 12:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mental health leaders will be traveling across North Carolina over the next several months on a town hall listening tour to listen to the concerns and experiences of consumers, families and advocates.
Published: Thursday, January 30th, 2020 @ 8:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH) is reporting that a patient who was being tested for the novel (new) 2019 coronavirus is not infected with the virus.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 @ 10:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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