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Tag: traumatic brain injury

a picture of a clock and a know your rights sheet
Posted inDisabilities

At Hinds’ Feet Farm, people with brain injuries can just be

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven January 19, 2022August 31, 2022

By Clarissa Donnelly DeRoven At 9 a.m. the meeting begins. “Would you spend the night in a haunted house?” Liz, a participant in the day program at Hinds’ Feet Farm in Asheville, asks her fellow group members, who sit scattered at round tables throughout the room.  She answers her own question first: a firm no. […]

shows a man in a suit standing at a podium gesturing with his hands. On the front of the podium is the NC state seal. Behind him are a bank of state and US flags
Posted inMental Health

State budget funds some mental health crisis response and hospital diversion efforts

by Taylor Knopf November 18, 2021November 29, 2021
a map showing death rates from TBIs by county 2017-2019
Posted inMental Health

Why do North Carolinians die of traumatic brain injuries at higher rates than the national average?

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven November 12, 2021November 11, 2021
shows four people posing for a formal photo, two seated, two standing behind them. The two seated people are residents at a group home for people with intellectual / developmental disabilities and traumatic brain injury.
Posted inDisabilities

Proposed bills would bump up pay for people caring for NC’s most vulnerable

by Mona Dougani June 9, 2021August 31, 2022
Posted inMilitary Health

A new treatment could benefit vets with PTSD and brain injury, lawmakers want insurers to reimburse for it

by Emily Davis July 9, 2019July 9, 2019
shows a red cross with the word Medicaid printed on it, in front of a pile of dollar bills. For Medicaid transformation
Posted inFeatured

State audit: NC DHHS’s failure to set proper rates kept dollars from mental health patients

by Thomas Goldsmith January 25, 2019April 14, 2021

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