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NCDHHS Urges Families to Keep Information Up to Date
Published: Wednesday, August 7th, 2024 @ 8:12 am
By: ENC NOW
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has become aware of a potential scam targeting Food and Nutrition Services beneficiaries.
Published: Sunday, September 10th, 2023 @ 12:41 pm
By: ENC NOW
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced the launch of BreastfeedNC.com, a new website dedicated to providing comprehensive information and resources to support mothers and families across North Carolina who are interested in breastfeeding.
Published: Sunday, August 13th, 2023 @ 8:01 pm
By: ENC NOW
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will host a live fireside chat and tele-town hall on Thursday, April 27, from 6 to 7 p.m., to discuss how North Carolinians can access and understand health-related information so they can improve their own health.
Published: Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 @ 5:58 am
By: ENC NOW
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A popular article claiming to show mental health benefits from “gender-affirming” care has been updated by the publisher after it was shown to contain distortions and misleading information.
Published: Saturday, December 3rd, 2022 @ 10:24 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Health officials from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced the state’s first death this year associated with West Nile virus. To protect the family's privacy, no other information regarding the deceased will be provided.
Published: Monday, October 3rd, 2022 @ 7:26 pm
By: ENC NOW
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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 North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today launched its first online data dashboard visualizing information and trends about the statewide early care and learning network.
Published: Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 4:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released the North Carolina Violent Death Reporting System (NC-VDRS) Data Dashboard, an interactive online dashboard that provides aggregate information on violent deaths for all 100 counties in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, November 18th, 2021 @ 6:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ vaccine data dashboard now includes county-level vaccination information from federal providers
Published: Thursday, October 28th, 2021 @ 1:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ vaccine data dashboard now includes vaccination information from federal providers
Published: Sunday, August 1st, 2021 @ 1:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Health is aware scammers are calling community members in an attempt to solicit Medicare or financial information.
Published: Sunday, June 6th, 2021 @ 11:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has expanded its vaccine data dashboard to provide information on people who have been partially or fully vaccinated through the federal long-term care and retail pharmacy programs.
Published: Friday, March 26th, 2021 @ 6:48 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has expanded its vaccine data dashboard to provide information about vaccine doses promised to and received by the state.
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 @ 10:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is adding information about antigen testing to the COVID-19 NC Dashboard
Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2020 @ 9:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services unveiled an updated COVID-19 Dashboard that includes more granular information about hospital capacity and hospitalization trends, both statewide and broken down by region.
Published: Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 @ 7:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On April 25, Vidant Health sent an electronic update to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) which contained inaccurate COVID-19 test results.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 @ 11:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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While elected officials and healthcare leaders across the country discuss a rolling reopening of our economy, North Carolina needs to start the same discussion, but we lack key information.
Published: Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 @ 11:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This updated is intended to provide the latest information to all North Carolina clinicians and laboratory staff regarding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Published: Thursday, April 2nd, 2020 @ 10:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As the debate over Medicaid expansion continues, it is vital to have an understanding of the real impact of closing North Carolina’s health coverage gap and to dispel false allegations and misinformation.
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2019 @ 10:43 am
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released today an interactive online dashboard, “Alcohol & the Public’s Health in North Carolina,” which provides alcohol-related information on all 100 counties.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2019 @ 1:59 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released a policy paper and a Request for Information (RFI) to invite feedback on the Healthy Opportunities Pilots — a groundbreaking program that will test and evaluate the impact of integrating evidence-based, non-medical services
Published: Tuesday, February 19th, 2019 @ 5:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The neurosurgical team at Vidant Medical Center (VMC) was ranked among the top 100 hospitals in the nation for specialized neuroscience and spine programs by Becker's Healthcare, a leading source of business and legal information for health care leaders.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2019 @ 2:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Nine children from seasonal or migrant farmworker families have improved their health literacy skills through a collaborative project at East Carolina University
Published: Monday, November 27th, 2017 @ 8:27 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is notifying the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights and affected individuals of a recent incident in which a spreadsheet containing personal information was sent in error to a vendor in an unencrypted email
Published: Monday, November 27th, 2017 @ 5:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services today asked health care providers, health plans and other stakeholders to provide information that will help the department transform the state Medicaid and NC Health Choice programs to managed care, as directed by the General Assembly in 2015
Published: Sunday, November 5th, 2017 @ 5:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is notifying affected citizens and the U.S. Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights of a Nov. 30, 2016, incident in which protected health information was sent to health care providers via an unencrypted email
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2017 @ 11:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Patients seeking surgical options at Vidant Medical Center (VMC) for severe obesity and its related conditions have a high-quality choice for receiving treatment at a nationally-accredited program that meets the highest standards for patient safety and quality of care.
Published: Thursday, May 26th, 2016 @ 1:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Office of State Auditor has renewed warnings about lack of security regarding access to sensitive material in the state Department of Health and Human Services' information systems, but that audit finding was overlooked amid the report of $835 million in questionable Medicaid spending documented
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2016 @ 3:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center offers a variety of special programs and activities to help cancer patients, survivors as well as their primary caregivers deal with the emotional and physical challenges associated with having cancer.
Published: Sunday, February 7th, 2016 @ 4:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Health, East Carolina Heart Institute and its physician partners are working together to offer education and information about women's heart disease with our 2016 Heart Truth Speaking Tour.
Published: Friday, February 5th, 2016 @ 10:17 am
By: Chris Downey
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All claims brought by the Town of Belhaven and the NC NAACP in the recent lawsuit against Vidant Health have been dismissed in their entirety.
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 1:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is notifying individuals of an incident regarding the email of unsecured protected health information as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health, or HITECH Act. Specific individuals who were affe
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 12:16 pm
By: Chris Downey
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A distance education student from the Charlotte area has become the first person to graduate from East Carolina University with a master's degree in health informatics and information management.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 5:16 am
By: ECU News Services
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The Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center offers a variety of special programs and activities to help cancer patients, survivors as well as their primary caregivers deal with the emotional and physical challenges associated with having cancer.
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 @ 2:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Health and the Veterans Administration (VA) are working together to share health information on veterans treated at Vidant Health facilities. The VA's Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Health Exchange program gives VA and non-VA health care providers secure access to certain parts of
Published: Tuesday, June 30th, 2015 @ 3:06 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Vidant Medical Center is the first hospital in the state of North Carolina to participate in the Abiomed Mobile Learning Lab (MLL) program.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 2:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center offers a variety of special programs and activities to help cancer patients, survivors as well as their primary caregivers deal with the emotional and physical challenges associated with having cancer.
Published: Thursday, June 11th, 2015 @ 1:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The spring Celebration Broadcast for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals on May 29 and 31 marks an exciting milestone.
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 12:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Clinical data experts at Vidant Health are using sophisticated information collection and analysis to determine patterns that could identify which patients are most at risk for sepsis - and perhaps prevent them from getting sicker.
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 10:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Dr. Mark Iannettoni, professor and chief of general thoracic surgery for East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine and director of the new thoracic surgery residency program at Vidant Medical Center, has been honored nationally for his work with resident physicians.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 10:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As flu season is progressing, we want to make you aware that the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services continues to update its flu web page, www.flu.nc.gov, to ensure we are providing the most current information to the public, media and healthcare providers in an easily accessible manner.
Published: Friday, January 9th, 2015 @ 10:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Dr. Suzanne Kraemer has been named the Chief of Staff for Vidant Medical Center, effective Jan. 1, 2015. She will be replacing Dr. Gregory Murphy who has held the position for the last year.
Published: Tuesday, December 30th, 2014 @ 4:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Due to increasing numbers of flu cases, certain Vidant Health facilities are imposing stricter visitation limits.
Published: Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 @ 11:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Joining Vidant was like a homecoming, he said, referring to his training at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, now Vidant Medical Center.
Published: Wednesday, December 17th, 2014 @ 11:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Dr. Tae Joon Lee has been named medical director of Vidant Home Health, Hospice and Palliative Care.
Published: Friday, December 12th, 2014 @ 10:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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