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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is committed to improving youth behavioral health in North Carolina and is leveraging the historic investment from the NC General Assembly to ensure everyone receives the care they need when and where they need it.
Published: Friday, February 2nd, 2024 @ 5:17 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Hundreds of people in North Carolina each day are waiting inside hospital emergency departments for behavioral health care.
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 5:20 am
By: ENC NOW
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On April 1, 2023, approximately 55,000 children receiving NC Health Choice coverage will move to NC Medicaid and begin receiving additional physical and behavioral health services. This change will help save families money and increase access to care.
Published: Saturday, February 4th, 2023 @ 8:14 am
By: ENC NOW
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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
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today released a coordinated action plan to address the urgent crisis of children with complex behavioral health needs who come into the care of child welfare services.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 4:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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From Medicaid changes to increased resources for behavioral health, to higher monetary thresholds for requiring Certificate of Need, the budget bill touches on key healthcare policy issues.
Published: Tuesday, June 29th, 2021 @ 3:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services issued a Request for Applications for Behavioral Health and Intellectual/Developmental Disability (I/DD) Tailored Plans as part of North Carolina’s transition to Medicaid Managed Care.
Published: Monday, November 16th, 2020 @ 4:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The town halls will feature remarks and presentations from Deputy Secretary for Behavioral Health & IDD Kody Kinsley, DMHDDSAS Director Victor Armstrong and the CEO for the Local Management Entity/Managed Care Organization for each area’s town hall.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 @ 11:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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“The cost of doing nothing is not nothing,” John Owen, mental health consumer, told Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen, M.D, at a roundtable to discuss the impact of untreated behavioral health on communities and the challenges of accessing care for those who need it.
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2019 @ 9:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services recently received a five-year, $10-million federal grant to improve the health and well-being of adults and children with challenging mental health issues who live in high need communities
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2019 @ 7:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is strengthening its contracts by seeking improved outcomes from the organizations that manage behavioral health care services supported with Medicaid and state mental health funds
Published: Tuesday, July 11th, 2017 @ 12:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ten years after enrolling its first doctoral class, East Carolina University's medical family therapy doctoral program is providing its graduates with 100 percent job placement.
Published: Tuesday, January 5th, 2016 @ 9:08 pm
By: ECU News Services
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More than 2,500 patients across the state may be diverted each year from hospital emergency departments to behavioral health crisis centers with help from $5,000 grants awarded to each of 11 counties
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2015 @ 5:38 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Director Courtney Cantrell, PhD, of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services, announced that four Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCO) were selected to pilot Critica
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 10:06 pm
By: Chris Downey
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