Meeting Materials:
Check out this video to hear from Annual Meeting speakers, meet attendees, and hear what people take away from this annual event.
Watch this video for a recap of our first-ever welcome reception to kick off the 2025 Annual Meeting.
Click here to download the 2025 Annual Meeting Data Handout
And here to download the full event program
| 8:00 a.m. | Registration and Networking Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome
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| 9:20 a.m. | Keynote Address and Fireside Chat
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| 10:00 a.m. | Plenary Panel Crisis as Catalyst: What Public Health Has Learned from the Last Five Years
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| 10:55 a.m. | Break |
| 11:15 a.m. | Breakout Sessions From Capitol to Community: The Impact of Federal Decisions on State Public Health
Turning the Tide: Advancing Policy and Local Innovation to Reduce Overdose Deaths in North Carolina
Housing as Health: Advancing Access Through Policy and Community Voice
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| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:15 p.m. | Break |
| 1:30 p.m. | Breakout Sessions Big Ideas and Local Action: Strategies to Meet the Food-Related Needs of North Carolinians
Meeting People Where They Are: Innovative Approaches to Suicide Prevention
Let's Talk About Sexual Health: Effects of Policy and Health Communications
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| 2:30 p.m. | Break |
| 2:45 p.m. | Legislative Round Table Health in All Policies: Building a Whole Government Strategy for North Carolina
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| 3:45 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
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The NCIOM's 2024 Annual Meeting focused on some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in long-term services and supports. The event featured leading NC experts, policymakers, and advocates who are at the forefront of LTSS innovation and covered innovations in payment and care delivery and topics including Medicaid, workforce recruitment and retention, the direct care workforce, demographic changes in our state, and home and community-based services.
NCIOM's 2023 annual meeting highlighted the factors that influence the health and well-being of our state’s children, from social drivers of health to protective supports at the family, individual, and community levels.
NCIOM's 2022 annual meeting focused on the challenges of recruitment, retention, and support for North Carolina’s workforce for health.
The NCIOM's 2021 Annual Meeting explored the behavioral health goals identified by the Healthy NC 2030 initiative. The meeting featured expert speakers on topics including substance use and overdose, access to behavioral health services, suicide prevention, and adverse childhood experiences.
The NCIOM's 2020 Annual Meeting explored research on the long-term potential impacts of foregone care due to COVID-19 on population health and the health system. Panelists and speakers discussed the factors that drove these impacts, such as changes in insurance coverage, capacity of the health system, changes to models of care and payment models, and drivers of health.
The NCIOM's 2019 Annual Meeting discussed Medicaid transformation in North Carolina. Discussion topics included the Healthy Opportunities Pilots, the NCCARE360 resource platform, navigating the transition, monitoring, oversight, evaluation, and special populations, as well presentations by representatives from each of the Medicaid Prepaid Health Plans.
The NCIOM's 2018 Annual Meeting explored how practices and systems across the state are evolving from coordinated care to team-based care models. While coordinated care has been widely embraced and implemented across North Carolina, true team-based care is still an elusive target for many health systems and providers. Team-based care has the potential to improve efficiency, effectiveness, value, outcomes, and patient and provider satisfaction. However, profound changes in culture and organization of care, education and training, financing, the fundamental nature of interactions.