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

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

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

Dr. Dobson spoke about rising healthcare costs at the 2014 Healthcare Summit in Concord, North Carolina

Theo Pikoulas contributed to an article for the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy on North Carolina Medicaid Recipient Management Lock-In Program: The Pharmacist’s Perspective”

Check out the article, “Community Care of North Carolina – A Statewide Initiative for Innovative Pharmacy Practice with a Behavioral Health Focus,” here

Group seeks holistic, coordinated approach to patient care

Time Warner interviews Dr. Betsey Tilson (former Medical Director at Community Care of Wake & Johnston Counties) about Enterovirus prevention

The Public Health Division of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) today announced that North Carolina's Infant Mortality Rate for 2013 was 7.0 per 1,000 live births, tying 2010 as the lowest Infant Morality Rate in NC's history

CCNC shows $382 million -- or 15% -- in savings for "super utilizers" enrolled in coordinated care programs. "Super utilizers" are 1% of the population who account for 22% of health care spending, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Tom Wroth, executive vice president and chief medical officer at CCNC, interviewed by Time Warner Cable's In Depth news program on the subject of Population Health

Troy Trygstad co-moderated two expert panels at an Industry Insights Breakfast Roundtable following the 2014 Next-Generation Pharmacist™ Awards that discussed how community pharmacists are well-positioned for the new value-driven model of health care

John Poonen, vice president of product management at CCNC, discussed speeding up analytics in healthcare using data virtualization at the TDWI Executive Summit in Boston

Project Lazarus and Community Care of the Lower Cape Fear's Medical Director, Dr. Robert Rich, featured in the American Academy of Family Physicians' recent newsletter

Overview of visit by Oklahoma legislator

Earlier this month, AccessCare and Community Health Partners took part in the Appalachian Care Medical Mission, which provided the public with free primary medical care, dentistry, optometry, and behavioral health services, as well as classes on nutrition, smoking cessation, stress reduction, and healthy/fit lifestyles

CCNC, the nonprofit group that helps manage the Medicaid population in North Carolina, was selected to implement the program in Arkansas

CCNC has been selected by the Arkansas Department of Human Services/Division of Medical Services from among bidders seeking to provide care coordination support and population health services for the State of Arkansas