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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is committed to developing a more skilled and satisfied caregiver workforce to improve the quality of care and support available to people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD)
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 9:59 am
By: ENC NOW
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Honorees demonstrate dedication to high-quality patient care, leadership
Published: Friday, September 15th, 2023 @ 3:31 pm
By: ENC NOW
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National recognition represents high-quality care across the system
Published: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023 @ 3:48 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Bronze Accreditation demonstrates 20 years of commitment to quality care
Published: Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 12:25 am
By: ENC NOW
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Today, the Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood-PLUS (MCCYN-PLUS) initiative launches in North Carolina to make it easier for military families to access and afford quality child care from community providers.
Published: Friday, March 17th, 2023 @ 11:54 pm
By: ENC NOW
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National accreditation confirms patients have access to standardized, high-quality comprehensive care
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 2:16 pm
By: ENC NOW
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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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A group of residents from western North Carolina filed a lawsuit Tuesday, Aug. 10, against HCA Healthcare and Mission Health alleging the anti-competitive business practices have driven medical prices up and the quality of health care down in that part of the state.
Published: Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 @ 5:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Health care is a right, not a privilege — and ensuring that every single American has access to the quality, affordable health care they need is a national imperative.
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 8:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Remarks by President Biden at Signing of Executive Orders Strengthening Americans’ Access To Quality, Affordable Healthcare
Published: Friday, January 29th, 2021 @ 1:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Biden-Harris Administration will open a Special Enrollment Period for Americans to sign up for health coverage and roll back attacks on the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and access to reproductive health care
Published: Friday, January 29th, 2021 @ 8:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The General Assembly will convene its biennial session Jan. 13. They’ll talk about how to get the economy back on its feet, address a learning gap in education, improve access to quality health care at an affordable price, put together a tax and spending plan and begin the centennial redistricting p
Published: Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 @ 11:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Rural Health is proud to recognize the innovation, quality of care and dedication of health professionals and volunteers in communities during National Rural Health Day 2020.
Published: Monday, November 16th, 2020 @ 7:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Health is pleased to announce Vidant Women’s Care-Williamston will open Aug. 24, providing access to high-quality obstetrics and gynecology services.
Published: Wednesday, August 19th, 2020 @ 3:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump is empowering patients and providing access to quality, affordable healthcare options.
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 @ 12:48 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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Today, more Americans are working than ever before. Virtually every demographic is achieving historic low unemployment rates.
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2019 @ 11:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Brody School of Medicine’s innovative Teachers of Quality Academy (TQA) – which trains healthcare professionals to improve quality in health care delivery – recently welcomed its fourth cohort.
Published: Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 @ 10:56 am
By: ECU News Services
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Since the beginning of his Administration, President Trump has put patients first so every American has the highest quality of healthcare in the world.
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 8:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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For the second consecutive year, Vidant Medical Center (VMC) has received the Mission: Lifeline® Gold STEMI Receiving Center Quality Achievement Award and the NSTEMI Gold Quality Achievement Award for implementing the most up-to-date evidence-based treatments to improve patient care
Published: Tuesday, August 6th, 2019 @ 3:36 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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Joan D. Wynn, PhD, RN, chief quality and patient safety officer for Vidant Health, has been awarded the North Carolina Healthcare Association’s (NCHA) 2019 Clinical Leadership Award.
Published: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 @ 1:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Remarks by President Trump at Signing of Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2019 @ 2:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Senate has overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill 86, which could make high-quality, affordable health care insurance available to tens of thousands of North Carolina residents lacking coverage.
Published: Saturday, March 30th, 2019 @ 11:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate has overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill 86, which could make high-quality, affordable health care insurance available to tens of thousands of North Carolina residents lacking coverage.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 @ 10:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It's time to give American families quality, reliable, affordable healthcare - and that's what we are working very hard to do.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2019 @ 3:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) signed a bipartisan letter urging the Trump Administration to stabilize the Medicare Advantage program, which provides quality health care to 21 million seniors and individuals with disabilities.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2019 @ 9:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's a modern, innovative and comprehensive resource for the Wilson community. The new, state-of-the-art Vidant Healthplex-Wilson expands access to convenient, high quality and affordable care, while helping keep that care close to home
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2018 @ 12:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's nearly impossible to discuss the cost, access, or quality of the U.S. health care system without circling back to Medicaid - the joint federal and state program that provides health coverage to those with low incomes
Published: Friday, October 19th, 2018 @ 5:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently released federal data shows that a partnership between ECU and Vidant Health made significant improvements in the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries while still achieving significant cost savings last year
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 2:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina ranks 44th in the nation in access to health care. When you consider we have great access in some parts of the state - those close to metropolitan areas and teaching hospitals in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the Triad, and Triangle - the overall ranking is misleading
Published: Monday, May 21st, 2018 @ 10:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A champion for quality health care in the East and a face of university leadership and service has announced his retirement from the Brody School of Medicine at ECU
Published: Saturday, December 16th, 2017 @ 5:31 am
By: ECU News Services
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In his budget proposal, Common Ground Solutions for North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper proposed creating the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit to help middle class families afford high-quality child care.
Published: Friday, May 5th, 2017 @ 3:24 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recently announced that Vidant Internal Medicine - Tarboro and Vidant Family Medicine - Tarboro, two Vidant Medical Group practices, have received NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Recognition
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2017 @ 4:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new Direct Primary Care option helped Union County government save more than $1.28 million on health care claims in its first year, without sacrificing quality of care for county government employeesv
Published: Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 @ 11:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2016, Vidant Health strengthened their mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina and advanced its vision to become the national model for rural health and wellness by creating a premier, trusted health care delivery and education system through strong results in quali
Published: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016 @ 10:50 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Oct. 29 is World Stroke Day. The stroke team at Vidant Medical Center strives to provide quality and efficient stroke care throughout eastern North Carolina
Published: Friday, October 28th, 2016 @ 2:12 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Twenty-five health sciences professionals and administrators from East Carolina University and Vidant Health gathered for a daylong session recently at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium's Club Level to learn about improving quality in health care delivery.
Published: Friday, October 21st, 2016 @ 1:21 am
By: ECU News Services
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In the week ahead, the Burr campaign will continue to highlight the substantive work Senator Burr has engaged in to help increase access to quality healthcare for our veterans
Published: Tuesday, June 14th, 2016 @ 6:34 pm
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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Vidant Home Health And Hospice Earns 4.5 Star Rating From Centers For Medicare And Medicaid ServicesThe home health portion of Vidant Home Health and Hospice has earned 4.5 stars for Home Health Quality of Patient Care through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Patients are admitted to home health with a referral from their doctor often after illness, injury or surgery, to...
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 9:57 pm
By: Vicky Austin
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A nurse specialist in vascular surgery has been selected by her peers as this year's top nurse at ECU Physicians, the group medical practice of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.
Published: Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 @ 4:40 pm
By: ECU News Services
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