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Members of the North Carolina Rural Health Association (NCRHA) visited Washington, D.C., on Feb. 14, 2024, to meet with elected officials and advocate for policies to improve access to care in rural areas.
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 @ 12:51 am
By: ENC NOW
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Cutting-edge high-speed internet is on its way to some of North Carolina’s rural counties, Republican Senator Thom Tillis announced last month.
Published: Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024 @ 9:58 am
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 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: ENC NOW
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Rural Health, in partnership with East Carolina University and North Carolina State University, has been awarded a highly competitive Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society award
Published: Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 @ 10:53 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Since 2000, Golden LEAF has awarded approximately 6,000 scholarships to students from rural communities who are graduating with the skills, passion, and leadership experiences to help their home communities thrive.
Published: Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 @ 11:37 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Rural hospital recognized as a leader in physician engagement
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 11:31 pm
By: ENC NOW
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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 North Carolina communities during National Rural Health Day 2022.
Published: Sunday, November 13th, 2022 @ 12:08 am
By: ENC NOW
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Beaufort County Community College’s Small Business Center is collaborating with East Carolina University Miller School of Entrepreneurship’s Crisp Small Business Resource Center to provide Accelerate Rural NC. The program begins on September 2 and runs for 10 consecutive weeks.
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2022 @ 10:18 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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On August 4, 2022, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $445,582 in funding to support projects through the Open Grants Program and $1,382,782.18 to support rural broadband to community anchor institutions through MCNC.
Published: Thursday, August 11th, 2022 @ 3:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Inflation in big cities is crushing residents right now, but it’s even worse in rural America, a new study found.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 5:28 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $445,582 in funding to support projects through the Open Grants Program and $1,382,782.18 to support rural broadband to community anchor institutions through MCNC.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 10:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This summer, 20 Golden LEAF Scholars are participating in the first cohort of the Rural Internship Initiative. Scholars are working in the medical field, teaching, law and public safety, and communication sciences in 18 rural counties.
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 4:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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N.C. Senate passes Medicaid Expansion Bill 44-2 on Wednesday. H.B. 149 also includes the SAVE Act, which would address needs in rural areas and giving nurses more independence, and partial repeal of some Certificate of Need Laws
Published: Wednesday, June 8th, 2022 @ 1:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Golden LEAF Foundation provides scholarships for students from rural areas to attend the state’s colleges and universities. Students who qualify for the Golden LEAF Scholarship may use it to attend North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU)
Published: Sunday, May 15th, 2022 @ 11:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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New program helps ECU, Vidant train physicians to better serve rural communities
Published: Monday, December 6th, 2021 @ 8:52 am
By: ECU News Services
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The healthcare industry remains a major economic driver in rural, tobacco-dependent, and economically distressed communities. The Golden LEAF Foundation supports the healthcare industry by funding projects that directly lead to the creation of new jobs and increased access to healthcare services.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 9:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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 North Carolina communities during National Rural Health Day 2021.
Published: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 @ 11:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Scholarships to help 215 rural NC high school seniors, NC community college transfer students attend NC colleges
Published: Thursday, January 21st, 2021 @ 2:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As he stood on his porch, watching the flames consume his studio, Brant Barnes wasn’t thinking about the fire.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2021 @ 3:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Rural Infrastructure Authority approves more than $4 million in funding to support economic development
Published: Friday, August 21st, 2020 @ 2:32 pm
By: Governor's Office
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This week, Rural Broadband Week, Governor Cooper announced $12 million for internet expansion projects in 11 rural counties through the Growing Rural Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) grant and COVID-19 Recovery Act.
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2020 @ 7:11 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Leadership Conference shares best practices and tools to tackle teaching remotely due to COVID-19
Published: Saturday, August 8th, 2020 @ 5:21 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Mary Penny Kelley Named Executive Director of Hometown Strong
Published: Thursday, July 2nd, 2020 @ 4:23 am
By: Governor's Office
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The Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation today announced that Ray Riordan has joined its team as program director for the NC Rural Health Leadership Alliance (NCRHLA).
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020 @ 11:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Foundation for Health Leadership & Innovation today announced that its Rural Forward NC Program Director Calvin Allen has been named to the Theory of Change Working Group for Thrive Rural
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2020 @ 3:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The dialogue focused on increasing coca eradication and cocaine interdiction, improving security and economic opportunities in the rural areas most afflicted by narcotics trafficking, and targeting narcotics-related money laundering and illicit finances.
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2020 @ 11:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper announced high-speed internet will expand in in Columbus County thanks to a federal grant announced today a $7.9 million ReConnect Pilot Program grant.
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2019 @ 5:13 am
By: Governor's Office
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Washington, North Carolina, was named as the 2019 Small Town of the Year at this year’s NC Rural Assembly, held in Raleigh on November 21 and 22.
Published: Monday, November 25th, 2019 @ 3:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today that the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) Office of Rural Health (ORH) has awarded 23 grants for disaster preparedness to health care providers affected by Hurricane Florence.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 6:00 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The NC Office of Rural Health (ORH) has received a one-time $1 million grant from Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust to support health care providers in 34 FEMA-identified counties affected by Hurricane Florence.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2019 @ 9:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, has resurrected a loan program aimed at saving rural hospitals from financial ruin.
Published: Monday, August 26th, 2019 @ 8:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, wants to throw a lifeline to as many as 20 rural hospitals that are headed toward insolvency.
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2019 @ 8:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Six rural North Carolina communities will share $1.2 million in federal grant funds to strengthen and expand their response to opioid use disorder with increased planning; prevention; evidence-based treatment, including medication-assisted treatment; and recovery service delivery.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 10:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Better internet access is coming to 19 rural, economically disadvantaged counties in North Carolina thanks to nearly $10 million in grants, Governor Roy Cooper announced today along with the NC Department of Information Technology and its Broadband Infrastructure Office.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 6:03 pm
By: Governor's Office
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I was born in Charlotte. But I grew up in rural Mecklenburg County. There used to be such a place - and, indeed, quite a few such places still exist in our increasingly urbanized state.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2019 @ 7:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Rural Health is hosting six meetings across the state to gather stakeholder input regarding the J-1 Visa Waiver program and NC's Loan Repayment and Incentive Programs under N.C. General Assembly Session Law HB 998.
Published: Friday, January 25th, 2019 @ 6:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Erica McAdoo can try to hide her destructive far-left agenda from rural voters in Alamance County. What she can't hide are her donors, but she's trying to do it anyway
Published: Tuesday, August 28th, 2018 @ 4:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If you could wave a magic wand and make one change that would provide the greatest benefit to rural North Carolina what would it be? I've been intrigued by that question ever since it was first posed during a panel discussion on rural issues
Published: Thursday, April 12th, 2018 @ 9:38 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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