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…