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A doodle of an ambulance is surrounded by black lines on a white background.
Posted inUninsured

No health insurance? A non-profit seeks to improve colon cancer screening

by Correspondent March 7, 2023March 6, 2023

By Elizabeth Egan UNC Media Hub In 2015, only 34 percent of patients at community health centers in Buncombe County, North Carolina, were up to date with their colorectal cancer screening. In only six years, that number rose to over 70 percent. Much of this increase can be attributed to the work of the Western […]

A person in a sports cap holding a needle box to be packed away and delivered to needle exchange participants. Dunlap says they meth use never went away in Haywood County.
Posted inRural Health

Even as opioids ravage WNC, mountain folks say meth never went away

by Liora Engel-Smith December 3, 2019December 3, 2019
The Appalachian Mountains near the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina may benefit from the ARC's recovery ecosystem model. The area has a quickly growing outbreak of COVID-19
Posted inRural Health

New dollars target opioid misuse, workforce revitalization in WNC

by Liora Engel-Smith September 11, 2019September 12, 2019
Former Western Highlands CEO Arthur Carder Jr. was fired after his board learned the agency was losing half a million dollars a month. Carder is shown here addressing his board earlier this year. Photo credit, Lydia Wilson
Posted inFeatured, Health Reform, Medicaid, Mental Health, State Health Policy

DHHS Terminates Western Highlands Contract

by Editor April 6, 2013October 19, 2021

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