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Saving hearts — and farmworker lives — in the fields

NC Health News

By Anne Blythe The growing season for many eastern North Carolina crops might be fallow right now, but that hasn’t stopped Margaret Sharp, a community impact director for the American Heart Association, and others from cultivating the seeds of a new healthcare program for farmworkers. Juan Allen is amazing,” Sharp said Sept.

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Meeting patients where they are: Mobile medicine in rural NC

NC Health News

This scenario recently played out in western North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene left many rural health care facilities inoperable. The mobile health care company will use the funding to design and build mobile medical suites self-contained clinical units tailored for rural health systems.