Lunch & Learn - Building a Healthy Community

Lunch & Learn -
Building a Healthy Community

Hosted By 

Partnership For Community Care

July 16th

12-1 pm

At the Reidsville Chamber of Commerce

112 Settle Street

Reidsville, NC 27320

North Carolina is attempting to stop the rapid rise of health care costs in the Medicaid population by aiming to improve quality of care and health outcomes. In 1998 North Carolina began building regional community-based  networks of providers - Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) - that is statewide and provides the infrastructure to improve health care for all Medicaid beneficiaries. CCNC has 14 networks across North Carolina's 100 counties.

Partnership for Community Care (P4CC) is your local network for CCNC. CCNC is a physician developed organization that provides medical homes for Medicaid enrollees. P4CC provides care management services for Carolina Access enrollees. Our goal is to work directly with local providers to better manage the Medicaid population and ensure consistent quality, medically appropriate and cost-effective health care services. Our regional network is comprised of health care providers, hospitals, health departments, social service agencies and other community organizations.

The P4CC dietitian, Sheri Vettel MPH, RD, LDN will be discussing the vital role of nutrition and wellness for improving patient health outcomes in care management services. In addition, she will be discussing the troubling issue of food insecurity and chronic disease in North Carolina and how P4CC is working to address the problem with the Partnership Pantry Healthy Food Bank Program and outreach to local farmer's markets.

Jeff Pruett, Chronic Pain Coordinator will be discussing Project Lazarus. P4CC is responding to some of the highest drug overdose death rates in the country through Project Lazarus. The inappropriate use of pain medications and unintentional overdoses significantly impacts the entire community. In North Carolina communities rates of overdoses exceed the national average, so the program has been expanded statewide. Project Lazarus seeks to address these challenges through community partnerships as well as education.