They are among the state’s 75 and older population now eligible to receive the vaccines and discuss why it’s the best shot at stopping the spread of COVID-19
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2021 @ 12:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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More than 100,000 people have downloaded SlowCOVIDNC, the official exposure notification app of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2020 @ 2:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A day after announcing the launch of SlowCOVIDNC, more than 50,000 people had downloaded the app.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 @ 11:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has launched a COVID-19 Exposure Notification app called ‘SlowCOVIDNC’ today, Sept. 22.
Published: Saturday, September 26th, 2020 @ 8:28 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCDHHS Developing ‘SlowCOVIDNC’ Exposure Notification App; Expected to Launch Statewide in SeptemberThe North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) is developing a COVID-19 Exposure Notification app called ‘SlowCOVIDNC’ that will launch across the state in September 2020.
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2020 @ 12:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper issued Executive Order 156 extending, but not waiving, proof-of-immunization and health assessment documentation deadlines for school and child-care facilities.
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2020 @ 9:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Stabilizing trends are good but fragile, and now is the time to double down on safety measures
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2020 @ 1:36 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Due to COVID-19, many health care facilities in North Carolina, particularly long-term care facilities, are seeking to urgently hire staff for temporary, part-time or full-time roles.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 @ 11:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper and NC DHHS Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen today shared an update on where North Carolina stands in the fight against COVID-19 and urged North Carolinians not to let their guard down.
Published: Saturday, May 2nd, 2020 @ 11:18 am
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announces today the Carolina Community Tracing Collaborative, a new partnership with Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) and the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (NC AHEC) to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 @ 12:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Dr. Laura Gerald, president of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, will be the keynote speaker for East Carolina University’s Fall Commencement Ceremony on Friday, Dec. 13 at 9 a.m. in Minges Coliseum.
Published: Monday, December 2nd, 2019 @ 5:40 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Today, the Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation (FHLI) announced the selection of NCCARE360 to build the North Carolina Resource Platform-a new statewide tool to make it easier for providers, insurers and community-based organizations to connect people.
Published: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018 @ 11:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If North Carolina Democrats hoped - and North Carolina Republicans feared - that a Roy Cooper administration would represent a clean break from the administration of former Gov. Pat McCrory, both sides have good reason to revise their expectations
Published: Friday, May 4th, 2018 @ 1:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The continuing calls to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act have a seemingly unlikely ally - Medicaid Health Plans of America, the trade association representing a number of top Medicaid managed care organizations
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health announced North Carolina's Infant Mortality Rate for 2014 was 7.1 per 1,000 live births. This figure represents a slight increase from the lowest rates recorded; a rate of 7.0 per 1,000 live births for...
Published: Monday, October 12th, 2015 @ 11:17 am
By: Chris Downey
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After several major revisions, Medicaid reform that had delayed budget approvals during recent years passed the General Assembly on Tuesday. Gov. Pat McCrory on Wednesday signed the measure.
Published: Saturday, September 26th, 2015 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Critics questioned whether a recent state audit attributing a 9 percent savings in Medicaid costs to the nonprofit Community Care of North Carolina was a useful guide to policymakers weighing reforms in the government health insurance program covering 1.4 million poor, elderly, and disabled North Ca
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 9:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate on Monday night gave preliminary approval to House Bill 372, the Medicaid Transformation Act, by a 38-10 vote after a dispute over rules and decorum and a testy debate over whether this legislation would make expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act more likely.
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2015 @ 2:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are "widespread differences" that are "not what you would call easy" to resolve between House and Senate health care budgets, is state Rep. William Brisson's assessment of budget deliberations in the N.C. General Assembly.
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 8:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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All kinds of deals are made during the legislative session. Whether a distillery can sell unlimited amounts or only one bottle to people taking tours; whether vehicle registration fees should increase 50 percent or 30 percent or at all; whether solar subsidies should be cut off now or extended...
Published: Friday, June 12th, 2015 @ 2:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Commencement season is an often-controversial time. Last year was conspicuous for its wave of politically motivated disinvitations, with students trying, sometimes with success, to get their universities to rescind invitations to commencement speakers such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Condoleezza Rice.
Published: Monday, May 11th, 2015 @ 6:34 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Innovative community health care driven by patient needs, and tailoring local resources to cooperatively address those needs was the focus of the 11th annual Jean Mills Health Symposium held Feb. 6 at East Carolina University.
Published: Friday, February 13th, 2015 @ 10:32 pm
By: ECU News Services
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With a philosophical gulf still separating the state House and Senate on how best to reform the costly Medicaid program, Illinois is reporting multibillion-dollar success in a reform plan that closely resembles North Carolina Senate Republicans' framework for the future.
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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At a forum this week, the state Secretary of Health and Human Services pushed providers to advocate for accountable care organizations to their local lawmakers.
Published: Sunday, January 18th, 2015 @ 2:53 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Naughty and Nice: North Carolina had plenty of both this year. Here is our list!
Published: Sunday, January 4th, 2015 @ 12:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The thoroughgoing reforms in Medicaid outlined 18 months ago by Gov. Pat McCrory are no closer to fruition now than they were when the governor introduced his Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina in April 2013
Published: Monday, December 15th, 2014 @ 11:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If North Carolina doesn't reform its Medicaid delivery system, costs of the government insurance program for the poor and disabled will grow faster than new state revenue, says state Sen. Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell.
Published: Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 @ 1:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Public Health Division of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced that North Carolina's Infant Mortality Rate for 2013 was 7.0 per 1,000 live births.
Published: Wednesday, October 1st, 2014 @ 8:51 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Today's Senate calendar includes a measure revamping Medicaid from the current fee-for-service model to one paying providers a set per-member-per month fee, moving Medicaid from the Department of Health and Human Services to a new department, and allowing hospital- and physician-led accountable care
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 12:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate on Wednesday rolled out an ambitious Medicaid reform planwith an aggressive timetable that health care provider organizations panned and other Medicaid experts applauded.
Published: Saturday, July 19th, 2014 @ 9:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An impatient Gov. Pat McCrory used his bully pulpit and a wall of white coats Wednesday to push for immediate legislative action on his administration's stalled proposal to run the state's Medicaid program using an Accountable Care Organization system operated by doctors and hospitals...
Published: Monday, June 9th, 2014 @ 7:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Skeptics of the Medicaid reform plan announced in February by the McCrory administration are wary of using a relatively untested framework of what are known as accountable care organizations to administer and deliver Medicaid services.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos places a top deputy temporarily in charge of the state's beleaguered Medicaid system, state Auditor Beth Wood has launched a cost and performance study of the nonprofit entity overseeing much of Medicaid, the joint federal/state...
Published: Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 @ 12:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Sunday, December 1st, 2013 @ 11:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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