Community Care of North Carolina, the state Medicaid program that assigns patients to a ‘medical home’, has saved the state close to a billion dollars over a four year period, according to analysts who examined four years of state Medicaid cost data. About 1.3 million people in North Carolina are enrolled in Medicaid, the state […]
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DHHS Secretary Cansler Resigns
Reporter’s Notebook: Secretary of Health and Human Services Lanier Cansler will be leaving his post in February. Cansler has been in his post since January, 2009, and presided over three years of cuts to health and human services, most notably Medicaid. In many ways, Cansler has had one of the most thankless jobs in state […]
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How budget cuts are affecting UNC Health Sciences Library
Walk into the Health Sciences Library at UNC Chapel Hill and you can’t help but miss this display in the window of the main entrance: Window display in the Health Services Library at UNC Chapel Hill In case you can’t read it in the photo, the text says: The HSL budget was CUT by 12.7% […]
Posted inConsumer News, Hospitals, Medicare
Hospital Accrediting Organization Names “Top Performing” Hospitals In NC
Fourteen North Carolina hospitals have been labeled as ‘top performing’ by the Joint Commission, the nation’s leading hospital accreditation organization. The hospitals represent all parts of the state, large community and small, urban and rural. Absent are major medical centers associated with medical schools in the state: Duke, UNC Hospitals, Wake Forest Baptist and Pitt […]