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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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ECU dental school’s annual clinic provides oral health care for migrant farmworkers
Published: Monday, April 17th, 2023 @ 12:09 am
By: ECU News Services
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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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ECU dental school’s innovation transforms oral health care in rural North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, November 30th, 2022 @ 10:13 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The Community Oral Health Transformation Initiative in North Carolina will test a value-based model of care and set the stage for long-term policy reform
Published: Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 @ 12:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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ECU dental school provides oral health care to migrant farmworkers
Published: Saturday, March 5th, 2022 @ 6:34 am
By: ECU News Services
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The Community Oral Health Transformation (COrHT) Initiative aims to improve outcomes, lower costs, and increase efficiency in oral health care for underserved populations
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 1:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Project will inform the potential transition to oral health managed care under NC Medicaid
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 12:00 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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ECU dental school’s new fund will support oral health care for veterans
Published: Monday, April 12th, 2021 @ 12:32 pm
By: ECU News Services
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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 North Carolina Oral Health Collaborative (NCOHC) announced today that the North Carolina Rules Review Commission has given its final approval of an important rule change that will open doors for access to quality, preventive oral health care for the state’s most underserved.
Published: Thursday, January 16th, 2020 @ 12:24 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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On Tuesday evening, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel spoke from the heart once again about Obamacare.
Published: Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 @ 2:47 am
By: Daily Wire
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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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East Carolina University's School of Dental Medicine hosted an inaugural charity event March 18-19 designed to reach adults in the greatest need of oral health care
Published: Saturday, April 16th, 2016 @ 4:24 am
By: ECU News Services
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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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A light snow fell on East Carolina University's newest dental service learning center in Spruce Pine on Jan. 30, as stakeholders gathered for a ribbon cutting to celebrate the facility for dental education and oral health care.
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2015 @ 11:46 am
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University's dental community service learning centers are core to the School of Dental Medicine's unique educational model - create more dentists for North Carolina while improving access to oral health care in underserved areas.
Published: Thursday, December 18th, 2014 @ 1:25 am
By: ECU News Services
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With the opening of each dental community service learning center, East Carolina University is "changing the trajectory of oral health care in North Carolina."
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 @ 6:07 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Individual health insurance premiums in North Carolina would spike as much as 80 percent on average due to the effects of Obamacare mandates if plans submitted by Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina receive federal approval as expected.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Oral arguments have ended before the Supreme Court regarding Obamacare. Perhaps significantly, Justice Kennedy, the Court's notorious swing vote, appeared to be very concerned about the status of young people with respect to the healthcare bill.
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2012 @ 10:51 am
By: Diane Rufino
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