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Ascendient > Public Health

How a Church-Based Clinic Is Making Primary Care More Accessible

Dawn Carter | May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022
Wooden pews with red cushions illustrate the idea that churches can help to make primary care more accessible

The top line: Accessible primary care is critical to population health – but problematic for healthcare facility planning. In one NC county, a healthcare system is partnering with a local church to improve accessibility with minimal investment in bricks and mortar. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Cleveland County is one of the… Read More

Debating the Role of Pharmacy in Healthcare Transformation

Dawn Carter | May 6, 2022
May 6, 2022
A nighttime view into a dimly lit pharmacy

In March, President Joe Biden announced a new test-to-treat initiative that allows some pharmacies to prescribe life-saving Covid antivirals for patients who walk in and test positive – a policy that begins to recognize the role of pharmacy in healthcare transformation. No more shuttling between a doctor’s office and pharmacy? That seems like a commonsense… Read More

Public Health Strategic Planning: Don’t Skimp on the SWOT

Brian Ackerman | February 28, 2022
February 28, 2022
Stylized skyscrapers form a bar chart, illustrating the concept of public health strategic planning

As Covid-19 slowly transitions from pandemic to endemic status, state and county governments all across the country are reckoning with the lessons of a two-year public health emergency. One area getting a lot more focus: public health strategic planning. The Build Back Better Act requested more than $16 billion for healthcare infrastructure, including $7 billion… Read More

The Public Health CHA: Time for a Temperature Reading

Brian Ackerman | February 10, 2022
February 10, 2022
A digital thermometer

Back in the old days (say, 2019) county health departments rarely made news unless a popular restaurant got shut down after failing inspection. But two years of pandemic restrictions have changed all that. Headlines are now frequent and foreboding, like this one from KHN: “Missouri’s War on Public Health Shows Extent of National Rift.” The… Read More

Will Congress Finally Invest in End-of-Life Care?

Emily Cromer | December 9, 2021
December 9, 2021
Closeup of an old woman holding a teacup illustrates the concept of end-of-life care

End-of-life care doesn’t get much attention in Washington, despite the endless political posturing over rising healthcare costs. It’s hard to understand that indifference, given that 25 percent of Medicare spending goes toward care for people during their last year of life. If ever there were a chance to bend the curve, hospice and palliative care… Read More

The Senate Rural Health Caucus Needs NC Voices

Dawn Carter | November 15, 2021
November 15, 2021
A photo of clouds swirling over the US Capitol dome is meant to illustrate that Thom Tillis and Richard Burr need to join the Senate Rural Health Caucus

Our founder, Dawn Carter, wrote the following opinion piece with Joann Anderson, the outgoing CEO of UNC Health Southeastern in Lumberton, NC. A shortened version was published by the Raleigh News & Observer on Nov. 14, 2021. Rural healthcare is facing a crisis all across America, and North Carolina is no exception. From Belhaven to… Read More

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