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Back to school: Nurse seeks training to help bridge mental health care gap in rural NC

NC Health News

Rural areas, especially, struggle with having enough health care workers, said Bagley, who lives in Greenville. Meeting a need ECUs program launched in fall 2017 with 21 students. At the time, officials cited the low rate of nurse practitioners certified in psychiatric and mental health care only 1.8

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Devdutta Sangvai takes over as North Carolina’s top health official 

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That decade-in-the-making measure has allowed more than 600,000 low-income adults to join the government-funded health insurance program, swelling the states total enrollment to more than 3 million. Kinsley succeeded Mandy Cohen, who was secretary from 2017 to 2021. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.

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Rural Hospitals and Patients Are Disconnected From Modern Care

KFF Health News

Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Pugh, who started her career as a registered nurse, arrived at the hospital in 2017. “We show the community that we care,” she said. It was “a mess,” she said.