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In the News.....

HHS announces Overdose Prevention Strategy

Please join us for the

Annual Meeting (being held in person)

on Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Starmount Forest Country Club

1 Sam Snead Dr.

Greensboro, NC

Click here for details and the registration form to be completed and returned to the address on the bottom of the form by May 3, 2022

We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker

Chip Baggett, CEO/EVP North Carolina Medical Society

In his capacity as CEO/EVP, Chip is responsible for state level advocacy efforts (primarily focused on the NC General Assembly) as well as communications and fundraising for the NCMS and NCMS Foundation.

Chip has a long history in organizational advancement and advocacy. Dating back to college, he has fundraised in numerous paid as well as volunteer capacities. He has led successful corporate and personal annual fund programs and gone through training at the Indiana School of Fundraising. Chip has worked in many different facets of health care ranging from a children’s science and health museum and pharmaceutical sales before going to work directly for physicians and PAs as a medical society executive first at the county level and then at NCMS.

NCMSA Commits $50,000 to Charitable Clinics across the State

The board of directors voted in October to support the North Carolina Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NCAFCC) with a donation of $50,000 to purchase point of care HbA1C machines used in the diagnosis and screening of diabetes and prediabetes as well as to monitor blood sugar levels. These funds will also purchase supplies needed to run these tests. With this commitment, the NCMSA can reach patients in all parts of the state who struggle with access to health care.

Click here to link to an interactive map on the NCAFCC website to find the clinics closes to you where you can volunteer as an individual or as a group.

We also encourage you to donate to the Health Education Opportunity Fund on our website to help us continue to support the efforts of free and charitable clinics around the state.

Click here to read the full article in the Fall Tarheel Tandem.

North Carolina Medical Society announced our partnership in the Morning Rounds on January 12, 2022.

2021 County Economic Snapshots

Click here to look at economic snapshots from the NC Justice Center for North Carolina as a whole or scroll down the page to select individual counties to download a PDF to see how each is doing with health services, making sure everyone can make ends meet and how well each is removing structural barriers to equity.

Community Health Concerns--click here for more information on physician burnout, opiod epidemic, health literacy, etc.