The conference will include an interactive career fair, which will provide students with one-on-one opportunities with health care professionals and health science students from more than 40 professions. Representatives will demonstrate tools-of-the-trade and discuss what it is like to work in a particular field, what is required academically and the real-life realities of work.
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PR: $6.5M in grants, loans available to N.C.’s rural communities for health-care job creation
Five North Carolina agencies partner together in initiative called Rural Hope to make $6.5 million available to support health-care facilities and job creation in rural portions of the state. Pre-applications will be accepted through Nov. 7.
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N.C.’s Medicaid agency launches investigation of major WNC mental-health services provider
A major public health care provider of mental-health services in Western North Carolina is under investigation by the state’s Medicaid agency, leaving the provider to possibly ‘cease operations,’ Carolina Public Press learned Friday.
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As more low-income, uninsured people seek medical help, Project Access changes its free health care program
The volume of patients referred to Project Access physicians more than doubled in the first six months of 2011 compared to the same period in previous years. “It’s rationing,” Western Carolina Medical Society president Dr. Robert Fields, MD, said of medical care. “We’re at the point where the need is so great, we’re triaging – trying to figure out who needs care the most – who needs it now, and who can wait.”
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PR: WNC author Ron Rash of Cullowhee is one of six receiving the North Carolina Award, the state’s highest civilian honor
Ron Rash is the author of 14 books, which range from novels to collections of short stories to volumes of poetry. The holder of the John Parris Chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University, Rash has reaped a harvest of prizes, among them the Novello Festival Novel Award, the O. Henry Award, the Sir Walter Raleigh Award, and the Frank O’Connor Award.