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Forsyth, Davie set to begin Partners behavioral health oversight era

A $110,000 grant to GreenTree Peer Center is aimed at improving how patients with behavioral health issues — including the uninsured, under-insured and the homeless — are served in hospital emergency departments. Cardinal currently oversees providers for mental health, substance abuse and developmental-disabilities services in 20 counties for more than 800,000 North Carolinians utilizing federal and state Medicaid funds. Cardinal’s network includes Alamance, Davidson, Davie, Fors...

Cardinal Innovations officials are hopeful that an initiative designed to enhance youth behavioral-health services in Mecklenburg County will have a spillover effect in Forsyth County. Cardinal, based in Charlotte, oversees providers for mental health, substance abuse and developmental disabilities services for more than 800,000 North Carolinians utilizing federal and state Medicaid funds. Its network includes Alamance, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Stokes and Rockingham counties in the Triad. Near...

Forsyth County will soon have three COVID-19 mass-vaccination sites, operated separately by Atrium Health, Novant Health Inc. and the county Department of Public Health. Atrium said Thursday it plans a mass-vaccination site in the Winston-Salem area through affiliate Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The site is part of a 1-million-dose public-private partnership initiative focused foremost on Charlotte. Novant announced Thursday its 1-million-dose initiative that will be allocated through si...

Forsyth County will soon have three COVID-19 mass-vaccination sites, operated separately by Atrium Health, Novant Health Inc. and the county Department of Public Health. Atrium said Thursday it plans a mass-vaccination site in the Winston-Salem area through affiliate Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The site is part of a 1-million-dose public-private partnership initiative focused foremost on Charlotte. Novant announced Thursday its 1-million-dose initiative that will be allocated through si...

Elections board moves ahead with challenge to more than 5,000 registrations More than 5,000 voters who a state lawmaker has said likely no longer live in the county will have their registrations challenged but will still be able to cast ballots in the Jan. 5 runoff if they do still live in the county. At a special called meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 22, the Forsyth County Board Voter Registartions and Elections voted 3-2, with Chief Registrar and Chairwoman Barbara Luth and Republic...

UPDATED: Which Missouri cities and counties have COVID-19 mask mandates? Austin Huguelet, Springfield News-Leader © Nathan Papes/Springfield News-Leader Schweitzer Brentwood Branch Library employee Chris Drew works while wearing a mask on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. At the beginning of November, mask mandates were mostly a city thing in Missouri. St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia enacted them over the summer and so did some of their suburbs, but most other communit...