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February 10, 2020

More Americans are Dying at Home

By Michelle Ries

Americans are increasingly dying at home, instead of in a hospital or long-term care facility. In a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that 30.7%…

January 31, 2020

NC’s Roadmap to Improving Serious Illness Care

By Michelle Ries

Since caring for a seriously ill loved one is one of the biggest challenges we face, the North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NCIOM), in partnership with agencies and organizations that…

January 30, 2020

Healthy North Carolina 2030 Report Released with 21 Goals Spanning the Drivers of Health

By Brieanne Lyda-McDonald

  This week, the NCIOM, in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS), released Healthy North Carolina 2030: A Path Toward Health, the latest…

January 7, 2020

Understanding – and Improving – Perinatal Health in North Carolina

By Kaitlin Phillips

Though there is ample room for improvement in perinatal health care – especially when it comes to equity and access to care – there are clinical and policy strides being made to address the problem.