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House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) announced that the Committee will hold a field hearing on Access to Health Care in America: Challenges in Rural and Underserved Communities.
Published: Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 @ 8:52 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Funding supports expansion of RISE Fellowship to retain teachers in underserved communities
Published: Sunday, August 6th, 2023 @ 8:12 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Innovation, community partnerships help ECU bring dental care to underserved Hyde County
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 @ 1:48 am
By: ECU News Services
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ECU doctoral students work for the underserved
Published: Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 @ 5:13 am
By: ECU News Services
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ECU alumna returns to care for patients in her rural, underserved hometown
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 @ 2:54 am
By: ECU News Services
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper reestablished the Andrea Harris Equity Task Force through an Executive Order to continue the work that the group has done to address social, economic and health disparities in underserved and underrepresented communities.
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2022 @ 11:03 am
By: Governor's Office
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ECU delivers healthy food program to underserved communities in the east
Published: Monday, April 11th, 2022 @ 11:22 am
By: ECU News Services
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State agencies are asking residents to take the N.C. Broadband Survey to help determine which areas are unserved or underserved.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2022 @ 12:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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“Applicants for the grants are prioritized if they treat a majority of ‘underserved communities,’ including African Americans and ‘LGBTQ+ persons,’ as established under President Joe Biden's executive order on ‘advancing racial equity.’”
Published: Monday, March 7th, 2022 @ 11:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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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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ECU programs will give underserved preschoolers a head start in science, health education
Published: Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 @ 12:04 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Christian Penister’s admiration for his childhood dentist and desire to provide care for the underserved led him to dentistry.
Published: Sunday, August 1st, 2021 @ 10:57 am
By: ECU News Services
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A new tool created by the NC Department of Health and Human Services that maps social vulnerability and vaccination rates by census tract has helped North Carolina vaccine providers increase vaccinations by 50 percent in 89 underserved communities.
Published: Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021 @ 2:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Visit emphasizes efforts to continue vaccination progress, expand reach in underserved communities
Published: Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 @ 1:25 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Economic relief prioritized for underserved communities
Published: Wednesday, April 28th, 2021 @ 1:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina’s work to reach underserved and historically marginalized populations and deliver equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines is a model approach for the country
Published: Friday, April 9th, 2021 @ 12:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The partnership aims to help everyone make informed decisions about COVID-19 vaccines.
Published: Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 @ 12:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Grant funding will support youth programs and activities honoring the life and legacy of Dr. King
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2020 @ 3:26 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper announced that the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) today has approved a third vendor, NC Community Health Center Association (NCCHCA), to expand free COVID-19 testing to historically marginalized communities that currently have limited testing site
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020 @ 3:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week, NC DHHS announced that up to 300 no-cost testing sites would be deployed to underserved communities that currently have limited testing options.
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2020 @ 3:26 am
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) today issued a Request For Proposals for an initiative that will send up to 250 Community Health Workers to historically underserved areas with high COVID-19 caseloads.
Published: Saturday, July 11th, 2020 @ 2:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today launched the Community testing in High-priority And Marginalized Populations (CHAMP) Initiative to increase access to no-cost COVID-19 testing
Published: Wednesday, July 8th, 2020 @ 1:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump is working to aid communities that have been disproportionately harmed by COVID-19.
Published: Sunday, May 17th, 2020 @ 2:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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East Carolina University student Godgive Umozurike plans to become a physician and serve in rural and medically underserved areas of North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 @ 7:01 am
By: ECU News Services
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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 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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My Administration will do everything possible to provide our children, especially kids in underserved areas, with access to high-quality education in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 @ 1:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump knows that entrepreneurship is the economic backbone of communities across America
Published: Sunday, February 18th, 2018 @ 9:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper proclaimed today Rural Health Day in North Carolina, noting that when the N.C. Office of Rural Health opened in 1973 it was the first state office in the nation created to focus on the health care needs of rural and underserved communities
Published: Sunday, November 19th, 2017 @ 7:11 am
By: Governor's Office
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A new state grant program seeks to make fresh produce available in underserved communities, but research suggests the government's tactics won't make people healthier
Published: Monday, July 31st, 2017 @ 6:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Cooper’s Common Ground Solutions budget included $20 million to improve internet access and service to households and businesses in underserved areas of North Carolina.
Published: Monday, May 8th, 2017 @ 1:46 am
By: Governor's Office
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A new tool was just rolled out to support Governor Pat McCrory's goal of expanding high-speed internet access to underserved communities and extending Wi-Fi access to every classroom in the state.
Published: Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 @ 12:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Walk into the Pitt County Care Clinic on any given Sunday afternoon and you will see a group of enthusiastic yet nervous medical students huddled together, chatting to ease their nerves. Each of them is ready to experience their first dose of patient interaction.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 5:28 am
By: ECU News Services
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North Carolina consumers in less populated areas will receive quicker broadband service thanks, in part, to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Connect America Fund (CAF) and participation from four broadband service provider partners.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 @ 10:58 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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With the economic collapse of the last decade brought on largely due to the bursting of the housing bubble, does anybody still think it a good idea for government to encourage investments in "underserved" populations
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Some state education officials are hoping that a plan approved by the State Board of Education and sent to a legislative committee for action will speed the process of letting high-performing charter schools replicate their success in underserved regions.
Published: Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 @ 12:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Twenty-five middle and high school students from Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Northampton and Wilson counties took a field trip to East Carolina University on June 18 as part of their week-long math and science camp.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:30 am
By: ECU News Services
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Robeson County will soon be home to a facility that officials say will bring dental care to limited-income, underserved residents while providing educational opportunities to East Carolina University dental students.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 11:59 am
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine is one of 11 schools in the nation selected for a $1 million grant from the American Medical Association to change the way it educates students while keeping its focus on rural and underserved populations.
Published: Saturday, June 15th, 2013 @ 11:32 pm
By: ECU News Services
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