Healthy Opportunities News

News Releases 

Healthy Opportunities Pilots Lead to Healthier Outcomes and Reduce NC Medicaid Costs

ICYMI North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots Receive National Recognition

Healthy Opportunities Pilots Celebrate Two Year Anniversary

First Medicaid Managed Care Members Receive Food Services Through Healthy Opportunities Pilot

News Articles

Reflecting on Nearly Two Years of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots

The Healthy Opportunities Pilot has helped thousands of low-income NC residents by addressing nonmedical health needs, but its future depends on state lawmakers and a shifting federal landscape

Healthy Opportunities Pilot Shows Cost Savings for Medicaid; “It’s a hand up”

In addition to improving patient outcomes, the Healthy Opportunities Pilot data shows the program created jobs in low-income regions

Fragile N.C. Residents Lose Housing Support for Food and Housing

Vital Directions for Health and Health Care in North Carolina

NCCARE360 Kicks Into Gear With Promise Of Great Things To Come

Factsheet

Healthy Opportunities Pilots

Report

Community Health Workers in North Carolina: Creating an Infrastructure for Sustainability

Policy Paper

Using Standardized Social Determinants of Health Screening Questions to Identify and Assist Patients with Unmet Health-related Resource Needs in North Carolina

Video

Secretary Mandy Cohen Shares DHHS Priorities and Focus on Social Determinants of Health