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  • Chatham Maternity Care Center bucks trend of rural maternity closures

    Rachel Crumpler

    February 21, 2024 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Siler City, North Carolina

    As rural hospitals stopped providing maternity care, Chatham Hospital opened a new Maternity Care Center in September 2020. The five-bed unit provides care to low-risk mothers and newborns and is staffed with family physicians trained in obstetrics and surgery, to keep costs down. In three years, the Maternity Care Center has delivered 402 babies, with birth volumes gradually increasing each year.

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  • Prison system works to combat health care coverage gap by enrolling people in Medicaid before release

    Rachel Crumpler

    February 13, 2024 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    With the new statewide Medicaid expansion, the Department of Adult Correction is working to ensure fewer people reenter society after incarceration and enter a healthcare coverage gap by helping people apply for Medicaid before release. With the Medicaid expansion, 80% of the 15,000 people released from prison each year are now eligible for coverage, and prison staff submit about 100 Medicaid applications each week.

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  • Volunteer-led group sends books to incarcerated women statewide

    Rachel Crumpler

    December 23, 2022 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Incarcerated women in North Carolina can write letters to request books from the NC Women’s Prison Book Project. Volunteers sort through donated books to best match the requests and send up to three books a month to each person. The project aims to provide intellectual stimulation and a break from the isolation that comes with incarceration.

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  • In-jail mental health treatment producing a ‘night and day' difference for some in Forsyth County

    Rachel Crumpler

    November 29, 2022 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Forsyth County, North Carolina

    The eight-week program at the Forsyth County detention center’s Behavioral Health Unit has served 117 men experiencing mental illness — something that is typically underserved in jails. The behavioral health unit provides counseling and mental health services to individuals in the jail who need it and also includes courses on coping, dealing with stress, practicing mindfulness, and preparing for various life transitions.

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  • Collaborative care improves outcomes for those who are pregnant and addicted

    Rachel Crumpler

    November 03, 2022 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

    The Substance Use Network (SUN) Project brings together partners in medicine, social services, criminal justice, and recovery services, to provide care for mothers with substance use disorder and their babies. The project is guided by a patient-centered approach that uses pregnancy as an opportunity to encourage someone into treatment and since its launch, more than 40 patients have been treated

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