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A Healthier North Carolina: Governor Cooper Celebrates Nearly 600,000 Enrolled in Medicaid Expansion and Other Major Health Care Accomplishments

Will 2025 Be The Year Healthcare Gets Social?

Fact Sheet: North Carolina's Healthy Opportunities Pilots: What is it and what have we learned so far?

‘A Win-Win-Win’ for N.C.’s Healthy Opportunities Pilot

Kody Kinsley listens during a meeting. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

Impact Health Assists in Distribution of Grant Money from Dogwood Health Trust to Health Service Organizations Following Hurricane Helene

‘Deep care work:’ Medicaid's first food prescription pilot in WNC up for renewal

As Cata Norena shifts her car into park, this week’s fresh food delivery has arrived for the Chavez family. Julian Chavez opens the door and waves to Norena, who has been bringing the family fresh produce in Brevard for almost a year.

Can screening for food insecurity make a difference for patients? The jury is out

Significant Cost Savings Realized as Healthy Opportunities Pilots Reach Two-Year Anniversary

Centro Unido Latino Americano volunteers

Impact Health Awards $400K in Grants to Support Community Health Work

Vaya Health Launches The Healthy Opportunities Pilot (HOP) Program Alongside NC Dept. of Health and Human Services

Housing As A Health-Related Social Need: Lessons From North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilot

Healthy Opportunities Pilots Interim Evaluation Report Summary

‘A Win-Win-Win’ for N.C.’s Healthy Opportunities Pilot

An evaluation of the ambitious, $650 million Medicaid program to address the social factors that contribute to health found participants had fewer emergency department visits

October 20, 2024

A Radical Way To Think About Health

North Carolina is piloting an ambitious, $650-million Medicaid program to address the social factors that contribute to participants’ health. It’s a big lift that’s gotten

December 1, 2022