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Six applicants have filed certificate of need applications with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to acquire one or more mobile MRI scanner(s) in response to a need determination in the 2023 State Medical Facilities Plan
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 10:53 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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COVID-19 Situation Update: May 20
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 8:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is encouraging North Carolinians in the triangle area who are not yet vaccinated to attend the family-friendly, COVID-19 vaccination event
Published: Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 @ 2:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Health officials with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services are encouraging North Carolina residents to protect themselves, their families and other people around them by getting vaccinated against Influenza as the state enters flu season.
Published: Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 @ 5:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is seeking public comment on the revision of the proposed 2019–2021 North Carolina Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) State Plan, which outlines how the state will facilitate the CSBG program over the next two years.
Published: Friday, August 16th, 2019 @ 6:52 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is seeking public comment on the proposed Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program block grant plan
Published: Sunday, August 4th, 2019 @ 10:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is seeking public comment on the revision of the proposed 2019–2022 North Carolina Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) State Plan, which outlines how the state will facilitate the TANF program over the next three years.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 @ 12:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Public comment is sought on the proposed John H. Chafee Foster Care Program Plan for 2020–2024, which outlines how the state will serve youth ages 14 to 21, over the next five years, who have experienced foster care.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 @ 12:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Public comment is sought on the proposed Social Services Block Grant Plan, which outlines how $74 million in federal Social Services Block Grant funds will be spent in North Carolina in the coming state fiscal year.
Published: Monday, June 3rd, 2019 @ 3:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Division of Social Services is seeking public comment on the proposed Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program waiver.
Published: Monday, April 1st, 2019 @ 7:18 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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Public comment is being sought on North Carolina's proposed Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program waiver, which will allow an increase in allotted funds available for the Weatherization Assistance Program and Heating and Air Repair and Replacement Program from 15 to 25 percent for the current st
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 4:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen, M.D., got her flu shot Thursday and encouraged others to get vaccinated, too, with the flu season underway
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2017 @ 1:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today released a detailed proposed design for transforming the state Medicaid and NC Health Choice programs to managed care, as directed by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2015. DHHS is accepting comments on this proposal through Sept
Published: Tuesday, August 8th, 2017 @ 11:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Of all the differences among the three budgets submitted for the upcoming two-year spending cycle, none is larger, and less likely to be negotiated, than the $4.4 billion Medicaid expansion Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is pushing
Published: Sunday, June 4th, 2017 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is seeking additional public input on the transformation of the Medicaid and NC Health Choice programs (also known as "Medicaid reform")
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2017 @ 8:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking repeal of six unnecessary certificate-of-need rules to reduce the regulatory burden on medical diagnostic centers and purchase of major medical equipment
Published: Wednesday, August 24th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Budget writers working on the state's 2016-17 spending plan received the OK to increase the amount of money to open new psychiatric beds around the state from $12 million to $18 million, using proceeds from the sale of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh, while eliminating a controversial regulation.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2016 @ 1:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public comment is sought on the proposed Social Services Block Grant plan, which outlines how an estimated $62 million in federal social services block grant funds will be spent in North Carolina in the coming state fiscal year
Published: Sunday, June 5th, 2016 @ 4:07 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane cruised to a third term in Tuesday's municipal elections, and Charlotte Democrats voted to end the brief tenure of appointed Mayor Dan Clodfelter in favor of former four-term Mecklenburg County commissioner Jennifer Roberts.
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 10:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Council of State unanimously approved an agreement today that will sell the 300 acre-plus Dorothea Dix campus to the City of Raleigh for approximately $52 million. The agreement was reached by the McCrory Administration and City of Raleigh earlier this year.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 @ 11:39 am
By: Chris Downey
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The public is invited to comment on North Carolina's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Caseload Reduction Credit Report.
Published: Thursday, December 4th, 2014 @ 10:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The public is invited to comment on the state's Social Services Block Grant plan. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services creates this plan every year to outline how federal social services block grant funds will be administered.
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2014 @ 10:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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After years of scrambling and squabbling about the fate of the Dorothea Dix campus near downtown Raleigh, the two sides are finally doing the right thing: negotiating the size and price of the land parcel that city taxpayers will be purchasing from state taxpayers.
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 12:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane have asked the General Assembly to set the effective date of the Dorothea Dix lease bill to next year, in order to give the State of North Carolina and the City of Raleigh time to negotiate an improved deal.
Published: Saturday, May 25th, 2013 @ 11:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The mission statement of Dix306.org, a lobbying group pushing to preserve a lease struck in December between the Perdue administration and the city of Raleigh, reads...
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We have been entrusted by you, the taxpayers of our state, to make fiscally and legally responsible decisions that are in the best interests of all North Carolinians.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 8:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Imagine that the first-term governor of your state declined to seek reelection. In the interim between the election of his successor and his leaving office, this lame-duck governor sought to use the power of his office to make a last-minute real estate deal.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 3:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The physical abandonment of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh is a final exclamation point on the state's moral abandonment of the mentally ill, essentially returning us to mid-19th century conditions when the mentally ill were confined to jails, locked in attics or hidden from sight in poorhouses.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 8:14 am
By: Tom Campbell
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