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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Rural Health is proud to recognize the selfless, community-minded spirit of health professionals and volunteers in communities across the state during National Rural Health Day 2023.
Published: Sunday, December 10th, 2023 @ 12:19 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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“I bill myself as a citizen public servant,” Jesse Thomas told Carolina Journal in a recent telephone interview.
Published: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 1:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Library staff secures grant to increase farmworker digital literacy, internet access
Published: Wednesday, June 21st, 2023 @ 5:17 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Grant for improving digital equity to impact 29 regional counties
Published: Friday, February 17th, 2023 @ 1:02 am
By: ECU News Services
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Long-term care and rehabilitation facilities are eager to hire as vacancies in the healthcare field persist.
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2022 @ 6:17 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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ECU grant, Wake Forest materials donation expand health information access for migrant farmworkers
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 @ 7:31 am
By: ECU News Services
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The rate of COVID-19 infections is once again disproportionately impacting Black and Hispanic North Carolinians.
Published: Sunday, January 23rd, 2022 @ 9:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Healthier Together, a public-private partnership between the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and NC Counts Coalition, has awarded $500,000 in the second round of grants to support a new cohort of local community groups to support equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
Published: Friday, December 10th, 2021 @ 8:45 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. visited and toured the family vaccination site at St. Peter's Church & World Outreach Center in Forsyth County.
Published: Thursday, November 18th, 2021 @ 1:03 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) has partnered with community groups to create nine walk-in Family Vaccination Sites across the state to help families get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Published: Monday, November 15th, 2021 @ 1:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina's Community Health Worker Initiative will expand as part of the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion's Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR) initiative.
Published: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 7:27 am
By: Announcements
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Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, July 27, 2021
Published: Monday, August 30th, 2021 @ 9:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is expanding the COVID-19 Community Health Worker program, bringing it statewide.
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2021 @ 8:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new tool created by the NC Department of Health and Human Services that maps social vulnerability and vaccination rates by census tract has helped North Carolina vaccine providers increase vaccinations by 50 percent in 89 underserved communities.
Published: Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021 @ 2:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Funding Will Create Tens of Thousands of Jobs to Respond to COVID-19, Prepare U.S. for Future Outbreaks, and Support Local Public Health Officials
Published: Monday, May 24th, 2021 @ 10:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Support Services Program will narrow its focus; North Carolinians will still receive needed support to address food insecurity
Published: Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 @ 5:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina’s work to reach underserved and historically marginalized populations and deliver equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines is a model approach for the country
Published: Friday, April 9th, 2021 @ 12:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The converging crises our nation faces today have exposed and exacerbated inequities that have long been with us.
Published: Tuesday, March 30th, 2021 @ 12:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Through the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 Support Services Program, more than 35,000 households received relief payments, food, transportation to and from testing sites or additional supports to help them isolate or quarantine during the pandemic.
Published: Monday, March 29th, 2021 @ 11:59 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Administration Makes Essential Workers Eligible for Vaccinations at Community Health Centers in Federal CHC Vaccination Program
Published: Friday, March 26th, 2021 @ 9:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Better health outcomes for rural North Carolinians focus of annual symposium
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 7:00 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will continue two programs that help North Carolinians access services such as relief payments, access to primary medical care, diagnostic testing, food and additional supports during the pandemic.
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 @ 7:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) awarded four contracts to regional organizations to administer its new COVID-19 Support Services program.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2020 @ 8:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) today announced its selection of seven vendors to hire and manage over 250 Community Health Workers
Published: Saturday, August 8th, 2020 @ 5:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week, NC DHHS announced that up to 300 no-cost testing sites would be deployed to underserved communities that currently have limited testing options.
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2020 @ 3:26 am
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) today issued a Request For Proposals for an initiative that will send up to 250 Community Health Workers to historically underserved areas with high COVID-19 caseloads.
Published: Saturday, July 11th, 2020 @ 2:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) has been awarded $1.5 million to support and expand the Hope4NC program
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2020 @ 3:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Heat-related illnesses, pesticide exposure and other occupational hazards face migrant and seasonal farmworkers each day.
Published: Saturday, October 5th, 2019 @ 10:16 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The Medicaid program is for those in the shadows, the most unfortunate and needy of our citizens. As discussions of expanding our state’s Medicaid program continue — and hold up the new budget — it’s worth asking: Is our current Medicaid program adequately serving those in the shadows?
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 9:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is joining with the N.C. Community Health Center Association, citizens and partners across the state to observe National Health Center Week, Aug. 13-19
Published: Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 @ 1:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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East Carolina University researchers are part of a multi-institutional team receiving a large grant to tackle health disparities related to uncontrolled high blood pressure in the rural South
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 3:16 am
By: ECU News Services
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Building a road and building better health care require a community to work together. That was the message from keynote speaker Dr. Lori Carter-Edwards at the 10th annual Jean Mills Health Symposium held Feb. 7 at East Carolina University. Using a road-building project in three towns to...
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2014 @ 11:00 pm
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University has received a grant of $450,000 to help people with type 2 diabetes and related depression or distress manage their illnesses.
Published: Friday, November 29th, 2013 @ 2:05 pm
By: ECU News Services
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