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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, Forsyth, Rockingham and Stokes counties in the Triad. For those individuals, hospital emergency rooms ar...

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. Nearly 25% of its network population is in Mecklenburg. Cardinal has relied the past three months on pub...

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 six mass vaccination sites covering 14 counties. Novant did not identify the sites or counties. Howeve...

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 six mass vaccination sites covering 14 counties. Novant did not identify the sites or counties. Howeve...