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North Carolina resources via the Rural Assistance Center
Rural health and human services resources for North Carolina, with information provided by the Rural Assistance Center

• News: East Carolina University Program Targets Rural Dentist Shortage, Plans Learning Clinic in Sylva
  Ashville Citizen-Times, (NC) article reports that a clinic planned for Jackson County is part of a new strategy for addressing a shortage of dentists in North Carolina's most rural areas.
• News: Report Shows H1N1 Revealed Gaps in Nation's Emergency Health Preparedness Efforts
  The seventh annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Publics Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism report, released today by the Trust for Americas Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found that the H1N1 flu outbreak has exposed serious underlying gaps in the nations ability to respond to public health emergencies and that the economic crisis is straining an already fragile public health system.
• News: Food Stamp Use Soars to 36 Million
  New York Times article via Charlotte Observer, (NC) reports that with food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.
• News: ECU Offers Online Program on Ethnic, Rural Health Disparities
  Daily Reflector, (NC) article reports that East Carolina University is offering a new online program focusing on ethnic and rural health disparities (ERHD).
• Publication: North Carolinas ABCD Program: Using Community Care Networks to Improve the Delivery of Childhood Developmental Screening and Referral to Early Intervention Services
  An overview of the key elements of North Carolinas Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) screening program that identifies at risk young children in rural as well as urban areas needing early intervention services. -- Commonwealth Fund
• Funding opportunity: Pretty in Pink Foundation Breast Cancer Treatment Assistance
  Provides the financial assistance necessary to make survival a reality for breast cancer patients in North Carolina. -- Pretty in Pink Foundation
• Organization: Pretty in Pink Foundation
  A North Carolina 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides financial assistance, resources, and support to underinsured/uninsured people diagnosed with breast cancer who reside in North Carolina.
• Publication: Community Care of North Carolina: Building Community Systems of Care Through State and Local Partnerships
  An overview of Community Care of North Carolina, a public-private partnership that comprises local providers who form a medical home for low-income adults and children. Includes references to rural. -- Commonwealth Fund
• Publication: Characteristics of Practice Among Rural and Urban General Surgeons in North Carolina
  Study examines variation in the practice patterns of individual general surgeons and how they differ between rural and urban areas of North Carolina. -- American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute
• Publication: Medical Homes Offer Comprehensive Care Approach
  Describes the successes experienced by two health care centers that offer medical home services to their patients. Advocates in the Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) and the Lakewood Health System in Staples, Minnesota describe their programs. -- Rural Assistance Center
• Publication: Using Local Creativity and Entrepreneurship to Build Family-Supporting Jobs in North Carolina
  Addresses strategies that residents of the Appalachian region of western North Carolina are using to redevelop their economy by building on their age-old tradition of crafts and using it as a springboard to also expand their agricultural and tourism industries. -- Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Tool/Web Site: North Carolina KIDS COUNT Data Center (KCDC)
  Provides data on child well-being for the state. -- Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Publication: North Carolina Hospital Workforce Trend Analysis, 2004-2006
  Summarizes workforce and related data collected annually by the North Carolina Hospital Association(NCHA) from North Carolina hospitals. Includes rural and urban data. -- North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
• Tool/Web Site: MedlinePlus Go Local
  Offers information about health services in local geographic areas, including hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, support groups, health screening providers and many others. -- National Library of Medicine
• Organization: North Carolina Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities
  Promotes and advocates for the elimination of health disparities among all racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations in North Carolina.
• Funding opportunity: BJs Charitable Foundation
  Funding for safety, security and well-being of children and families, education and health programs, community service opportunities, and hunger and disaster relief. -- BJs Charitable Foundation
• Funding opportunity: Rural Capital Grant Program
  Funds to assist transportation systems that serve the general public and human-service agency clients in North Carolina's rural areas. -- North Carolina Department of Transportation
• Publication: North Carolina Health Professions 2006 Data Book
  Draws on data from the HPDS and describes the supply and distribution in 2006 oflicensed individuals in nineteen health professions by county and selected regions in North Carolina. -- North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
• Publication: Trends in Licensed Health Professions in North Carolina, 1979-2005
  Brings together 27 years of data on the supply and distribution of practitioners in 17 categories of health care professions in North Carolina. -- North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
• Map: North Carolina Rural Definition Maps
  Set of maps showing the geographic coverage provided by 9 different rural definitions for the state. -- USDA Economic Research Service
• Tool/Web Site: NCcareLINK
  Provides up-to-date information about programs and services across North Carolina for families, seniors, and youths. -- North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
• Tool/Web Site: North Carolina Health Centers Data
  Provides access to information on Federally Qualified Health Centers for the state. Includes a map of FQHC locations, as well as information on the populations served by health centers, services provided, staff, patient visits, costs of care, and use of electronic health information.
• Tool/Web Site: State Profiles- North Carolina: Health Information Technology (HIT)
  Profiles the states health information technology (HIT) issues. Contains sections on demographics, HIT legislation, telemedicine, Health Information Exchanges (HIE) & Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIO), grant funded HIT projects, and HIT survey information. -- Rural Health Resource Center
• Funding opportunity: Southeast Rural Community Assistance Loan Fund Program
  Provides low-interest loans to low-income rural communities for predevelopment costs, system upgrades and new construction of water and wastewater services and facilities. -- Southea