Recognition highlights ECU Health's commitment to rural health care
( Published Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 @ 8:21 pm )]]> Award highlights ECU Health's telehealth approach in addressing rural disparities
( Published Saturday, July 12th, 2025 @ 7:25 pm )]]> RALEIGH -- The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today released a multi-year Direct Support Professional Workforce Plan.
( Published Thursday, June 27th, 2024 @ 12:26 pm )]]> 144-bed hospital anticipated to open in Spring 2025
( Published Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 6:09 am )]]> Please see the attached announcement of Beaufort County's New Emergency Management Coordinator and Operations Chief of Fire and Emergency Management.
( Published Friday, November 17th, 2023 @ 12:46 pm )]]> 144-bed hospital anticipated to open in Spring 2025
( Published Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 8:40 am )]]> The Beaufort County Board of Health has appointed JaNell Octigan to serve as the next Beaufort County Health Director. She will assume her new duties January 1st, 2023, taking over for James Madson who is retiring at the end of December.
( Published Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022 @ 11:01 pm )]]> Please see attached for updated Flu and Covid vaccine promotion regarding our drive thru clinics.
( Published Tuesday, October 25th, 2022 @ 4:26 pm )]]> Beaufort County Board of Health Announces retirement of Health Director. Jim Madson is retiring January 1 after a noteworthy career which spanned 38 years in public health, 24 years in the Army as a Preventive Medicine Officer and 14 in NC.
( Published Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 10:57 am )]]> The Beaufort County Public Health Department plans to begin spraying for mosquitoes this week as conditions warrant
( Published Sunday, September 4th, 2022 @ 2:27 pm )]]> Beaufort County 1st Monkeypox Case Press Release
( Published Monday, August 29th, 2022 @ 12:50 pm )]]> The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today released two funding opportunities to award a total of $6,755,000 to community-based mental health providers.
( Published Thursday, June 9th, 2022 @ 11:24 pm )]]> Families participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) can now use their benefits for a much wider variety of infant formula brands and types
( Published Thursday, June 9th, 2022 @ 11:36 am )]]> RALEIGH - A group of students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) stepped into offices across the Division of Public Health within the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today
( Published Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 @ 7:25 am )]]> RALEIGH -- The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will host a live fireside chat and tele-town hall on Wednesday, June 1, from 6-7 p.m. to discuss COVID-19 recovery
( Published Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 @ 2:45 pm )]]> COVID-19 Situation Update: June 1
( Published Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 @ 8:21 am )]]> RALEIGH -- More people in North Carolina will have better access to both the behavioral health and physical health care services they need through several behavioral health clinics across the state, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced.
( Published Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 1:53 pm )]]> As North Carolinians start their summer voyages to beaches, lakes, rivers and pools this holiday weekend, officials at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services offer suggestions to maximize the health benefits of swimming and other water-based activities.
( Published Sunday, May 29th, 2022 @ 3:24 am )]]> On May 20th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in addition to the FDA, recommended a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 to 11.
( Published Saturday, May 28th, 2022 @ 1:00 pm )]]> COVID-19 Situation Update: May 25
( Published Thursday, May 26th, 2022 @ 5:38 pm )]]> The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is advising people to not eat or serve certain Jif brand peanut butter products that are being recalled due to potential Salmonella contamination.
( Published Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 @ 2:44 pm )]]> COVID-19 Situation Update: May 18
( Published Monday, May 23rd, 2022 @ 7:10 pm )]]> RALEIGH -- Children ages 5 to 11 years old can receive a COVID-19 booster five months after the date of their most recent Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose.
( Published Monday, May 23rd, 2022 @ 12:08 am )]]> NCDHHS taking action to help increase access
( Published Sunday, May 22nd, 2022 @ 11:02 am )]]> It is estimated there are more than 227,000 people living with viral hepatitis in North Carolina, and approximately half of people with chronic hepatitis are unaware of their infection.
( Published Thursday, May 19th, 2022 @ 12:13 am )]]>