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CCNC discusses team-based primary care & success with transitional care at the 'Health is Primary' panel

Family physician-led, team-based primary care improves both quality of patient care, patient outcomes, and helps prevent over utilization of scarce health care resources - especially in rural N.C., says Kim Thrasher, MD from CCLCF

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Peer-reviewed journal confirms high-risk patients benefit significantly from early follow-up post hospital discharge

The 'American Journal of Managed Care' (AJMC) published an article mentioning a recently published CCNC story about the timeliness of follow up for high-risk patients

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CCNC helps more foster care children get the care they need while restraining costs

Collaboration between local DSS departments, CCNC affiliates, medical providers improves care and lowers costs for Foster Children in Medicaid

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CCNC President & CEO, Dr. Allen Dobson Jr., to speak at BCBSNC's lecture series in Asheville, NC

The 'Asheville Citizen-Times' previewed Dr. Dobson’s appearance as speaker for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) Distinguished Lecture Series at Appalachian State University

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Dr. DuBard speaks at a seminar for UNC Lineberger’s Cancer Outcomes Research program

In April 2015, CCNC's Dr. Annette DuBard spoke about a population-based perspective on the care of complex patients. View the slides from the seminar here

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Project Lazarus highlighted in Pharmacy Times and Time Warner Cable News

CCNC’s Theo Pikoulas, PharmD, BCPP talks about Project Lazarus to Pharmacy Times and Time Warner Cable News

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CCNC's Pregnancy Medical Home featured in the N&O

The News & Observer published an editorial that touted CCNC’s Pregnancy Medical Home program, the cost savings and improvement in quality of life for newborns

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CCNC's program for pregnant Medicaid patients reduces rate of low birth weight babies, helps lower healthcare costs

​​​​​​​CCNC's Pregnancy Medical Home improves maternal and infant health for the state’s Medicaid program, which funds deliveries for the majority of the state’s newborns

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CCNC's medical home program recognized in recent study

In a recent article, Psychiatric News describes a data analysis in which researchers compared a variety of measures of services used by people with serious mental illness enrolled in primary care–based medical homes and those not enrolled. The analysis calls out CCNC for the relatively large effects on primary care use.

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What happens to NC babies without health insurance?

CCNC’s Pregnancy Medical Home program is spotlighted in Women AdvaNCe

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Jamie Philyaw receives Healthcare Hero award from TBJ

Jamie Philyaw, Vice President of Care Management at CCNC, was recently recognized by the Triangle Business Journal as a 2015 Healthcare Hero

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CCNC in NCQHA's transitional care summary report

The North Carolina Healthcare Quality Alliance and CCNC studied how the different ways of delivering transitional care impacted readmission rates. Check out the findings here.

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Opioid studies mark slowdown in abuse, but work remains

Dr. Robert Rich from Community Care of the Lower Cape Fear discusses using opioids to treat patients with chronic pain in this AAFP article

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CCNC innovation forum draws a crowd

2015 Innovation Forum at McKimmon Center gathers experts, fosters debate on healthcare challenges and innovations

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Project Lazarus does more than just raise awareness

The Winston-Salem Journal covered the kickoff meeting for Project Lazarus in Forsyth County

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CCNC, N.C. State partner to control Medicaid costs

NC State’s Industrial & Systems Engineering Department and CCNC form research partnership to improve healthcare

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Health officials urge flu shots despite lower effectiveness

Dr. Chuck Rich, Community Care of the Lower Cape Fear Clinical Director, interviewed by Wilmington Star News

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Healthcare Quality Awards

The NCCCN Board of Directors honored the winners of the 2014 CCNC Healthcare Quality Awards at a luncheon in Raleigh, NC last week

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CCNC wins $15 million CMMI award

This year, CCNC was among 39 recipients of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Health Care Innovation Award to demonstrate community pharmacy’s role in cutting costs

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AMIA Symposium

At the American Medical Informatics Association's recent Symposium, an abstract submitted by CCNC’s Charlene Wong, Deb Aldridge and Annette DuBard was accepted for an oral presentation

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