Federal Funding to Support School-Based Health Care in Rural North Carolina

Federal funding to support school-based health care in rural North Carolina

The Trump administration announced Monday that $1.25 million in federal funding will be used to expand health care access for children in rural communities across North Carolina.

Rural Health Transformation Program announces $1.25 million to expand school-based health centers

Gov. Josh Stein and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced $1.25 million in federal funding on Monday toward the expansion of preventive and acute healthcare, nutrition supports, and behavioral health needs addressed by school-based health centers....

STATEMENT: Trump Administration Lies to North Carolinians After Gutting Rural Health Care

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration announced misleading “rural health investments” in North Carolina, conveniently leaving out any mention of the catastrophic health care cuts Donald Trump and Republicans made that have ravaged North Carolina’s health care system and left rural communities in the dust. Last year, Donald Trump and Republicans rammed through $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid to pay for tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. North Carolina alone will lose more than $22.5 billion from those Medicaid cuts — making the $1.25 million CMS announced a pittance by comparison. Also in North Carolina, 23 hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes have already been forced to shut down, cut services, or are at risk of doing so after the GOP’s cuts. Nationwide, rural hospitals that were already operating on razor-thin margins are struggling to stay afloat. Rural health care leaders themselves have warned that these funds won’t come close to undoing the damage of $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, which were part of the “big ugly bill” Trump and Republicans rammed through last year. Jed Hansen, the executive director of the Nebraska Rural Health Association, said, “[The] Rural Health Transformation will not save a single hospital in our state. I don’t think it will save a single hospital nationally.”  Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse issued the following statement: “Republicans are trying to put a band-aid on a bullet hole after they were the ones to pull the trigger. These are the same people who gutted rural health care funding to give tax breaks for the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. They didn’t care about rural health then, and they can’t pretend to care about it now. This is another publicity stunt meant to distract working families from the health care crisis Trump and Republicans in Congress knowingly created. This so-called ‘investment’ is a drop in the bucket compared to the over $22.5 billion North Carolinians are expected to lose in Medicaid funding over the next decade. And that doesn’t even include the funds that clinics and nursing homes are expected to lose. They brought our health care system to the breaking point to line the pockets of their billionaire buddies, and no amount of lying can detract from that.” The post STATEMENT: Trump Administration Lies to North Carolinians After Gutting Rural Health Care appeared first on Protect Our Care.

Gov. Stein Announces $1.25 Million to Expand School-Based Health Centers, Including Appalachian District Health Department

Gov. Josh Stein and the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services announced $1.25 million in federal funding through the North Carolina Rural Health Transformation Program to expand preventive and acute health care, provide nutrition support and address behavioral health needs at school-based health centers. Five organizations will receive funding: the Appalachian District Health Department, …