Winter 2024 Newsletter
WINTER 2024 Reflections Sticking to Our Mission of Serving the Uninsured and Underinsured For all of us in North Carolina’s free and charitable clinic world, 2024 will be a year of challenges and adaptation as we begin to understand exactly how the state’s expansion of Medicaid eligibility will affect how we serve the communities we […]
Summer 2023 Newsletter
SUMMER 2023 Reflections Growth And Change Over Past Year Add Up To A Thrilling Ride How many times have we heard the roller coaster analogy of the ups and downs of life, the ups and downs of a relationship, and the ups and downs of starting a new job? After my first year as CEO […]
Spring 2023 Newsletter
SPRING 2023 Reflections Free and Charitable Clinics Speaking as One on Behalf of North Carolina’s Uninsured With Medicaid expansion closer than ever to becoming a reality for North Carolina, people all over our state have been focusing on the details and asking an important question: What does it really mean for low-income North Carolinians and […]
Winter 2023 Newsletter
WINTER 2023 Reflections For 2023, A Fresh Optimism Grounded In Belief In The Power Of Collaboration The new year always brings renewed optimism and a sense of great anticipation for the tantalizing possibilities that lie in front of us, just waiting to be fulfilled. When I think about what’s in store for our association and […]
December 2022 Newsletter
DECEMBER 2022 Reflections A Holiday Thanks To Our Clinic Leadership For A Year Of Amazing Progress THANK YOU! Thank you for what each of you do daily serving the most vulnerable in our state. Thank you for carrying the stress and worry of whether there is enough money every month to cover salaries for staff […]
November 2022 Newsletter
NOVEMBER 2022 Reflections For Diabetes Awareness Month, A Shout-Out To Our Allies In The Blood-Sugar Battle I read a story in The New York Times recently that ran under the headline: “Medical Care Alone Won’t Halt the Spread of Diabetes, Scientists Say.†The story went on to conclude that the only hope for solving our […]
October 2022 Newsletter
OCTOBER 2022 Reflections 2022 NCAFCC awards, Bernstein award recognize outstanding colleagues Once in a while we get the chance to take a step back from our day-to-day challenges and celebrate our colleagues who are making a difference for free and charitable clinics across North Carolina. We had the opportunity to do just that recently as […]
September 2022 Newsletter
SEPTEMBER 2022 Q&A with April Cook With 25 years of experience running a healthcare clinic for people in need, April Cook succeeded Randy Jordan as CEO of the North Carolina Association of Free and Charitable Clinics on Aug. 1. As co-founder and former executive director of the Lake Norman Community Health Clinic in Huntersville, she […]