Read NCIOM’s 2021 Annual Report for details on our work over the past year, upcoming task forces, North Carolina Medical Journal highlights, and more.
On March 11, the country marked one year since the COVID-19 crisis was declared a pandemic. Over half a million Americans have died from the virus in that time with…
The United States Congress passed a fourth piece of legislation on December 21, 2020, which was signed by President Trump on December 27, 2020, to address some of the health,…
North Carolina’s latest Child Health Report Card gives the state high marks for children’s health coverage, but also points out some troubling trends. North Carolina earned failing grades in several…
Read NCIOM’s 2020 Annual Report for details on our work over the past year, from completing an unprecedented four task forces to convening stakeholders with NC DHHS to create a…
In 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) asked states to develop a plan to increase the proportion of children ages 1 – 20 enrolled in Medicaid or…
In March 2010, Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA was enacted to address certain fundamental problems with…
The Task Force on Serious Illness Care recognized that, with rising rates of many serious and chronic conditions in our state, it is crucially important to develop a system and…
The North Carolina Institute of Medicine and the South Carolina Institute of Medicine & Public Health continue to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and state and federal actions to address the…
The Task Force on Access to Health Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing was convened, in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division…
The rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic has brought much of the world to a halt. Increasing infection rates have led to stronger state and local actions to impose social distancing on…
The NCIOM Perinatal System of Care Task Force was convened, in partnership with the North Carolina Division of Public Health and NC DHHS, to respond to Session Law 2018-93 and…
