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December 16, 2024

Hurricane Helene: Lessons Learned from a Medical Clinic Inside the Storm

By Kaitlin Phillips

by Guest Authors Ernest Blake Fagan, MD; Katherine Kiley, MD; Julia Ceglenski, MD; Melinda Ramage, FNP-BC, CARN-AP, LCAS; Nathan Mullins, MD; and Olivia Caron, PharmD, BCACP, CPP   Hurricane Helene…

December 12, 2024

Rebuilding Maternal Health Access in Western North Carolina: Addressing Critical Gaps Amplified by Hurricane Helene

By Kaitlin Phillips

by Guest Authors Jennifer Runkle (North Carolina State University) and Maggie Sugg (Appalachian State University)   Hurricane Helene, one of the most catastrophic storms to impact the US mainland since…

December 9, 2024

The Ripple Effect of Disaster: Hurricane Helene and Oral Health in North Carolina

By Khristian Curry

  by Khristian Curry, MPH, NCIOM Staff   Hurricane Helene, a well-documented storm that struck in September 2024, devastated Western North Carolina, leaving communities to grapple with the immediate destruction…

December 6, 2024

NC Health Policy Community Prepares to Care for an Aging State

By Kaitlin Phillips

by Kaitlin Phillips, MS photos by Matthew Ramey   When Robert Espinoza, MPA, woke up in a Brooklyn hospital in 2016, the last thing he remembered was taking a cab…