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July 6, 2021

Innovations Born of COVID-19: How North Carolinians Broke Norms to Fix the Pandemic

By Kaitlin Phillips

The latest issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal starts out with a reminder that while the current state of public health in our world may feel unprecedented, we have…

June 28, 2021

COVID-19 and Health Care Worker Burnout

By Michelle Ries

By Michelle Ries Summer and fall of 2021 will bring new challenges to the U.S., as the nation enters a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Falling infection rates and…

June 22, 2021

Healthy Opportunities Pilots – NC Medicaid’s Effort to Buy Health, Not Just Health Care

By Brieanne Lyda-McDonald

  Implementation of Medicaid managed care in North Carolina will begin July 1, 2021. (Read our previous blog posts to learn about the basics of Medicaid transformation and the difference…

June 17, 2021

50 Years of Fighting Perinatal Mortality in North Carolina

By Kaitlin Phillips

By Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips   In June 1971, the North Carolina Medical Journal dedicated almost an entire issue to perinatal mortality in our state. Two years prior, with the help…