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    • 2018 Impact Report Released
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    • Upcoming Townhall for our IDD Community
    • Grants help Meals On Wheels during COVID-19 pandemic
    • John F. Kennedy and People with Intellectual Disabilities
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    • Message from the CEO – November 23, 2020
    • FAQs: Potential County Disengagement
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    • Senate Bill 808 – Medicaid Funding Act
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Unveils **ASK, a 24/7 Mental Health Emergency Access Line
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    • Cardinal Innovations Awards Nearly $2MM in COVID-19 Relief Grants to Not-For-Profit Organizations
    • Commissioners agree to bolster opioid crisis fight
    • Message from CEO - April 13, 2020
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    • Caring for our Community during COVID-19
    • New Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Resources
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    • Dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Florence
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    • Forsyth Board Begins Shift Toward Funding Cardinal Innovations for Behavioral Health Services
    • Governor Appoints Cardinal Innovations CEO Pam Shipman to NCIOM Board
    • Medicaid Waiver Renewals
    • Message from CEO – April 27, 2020
    • Medicaid Transformation Q&A for Members
    • Message from the CEO - August 2019
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    • Hurricane Dorian: Information and Resources
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    • Family member sought to serve on Clinical Advisory Committee
    • Changes in the North Carolina Medicaid Waivers - July 1, 2019
    • Message from the CEO - June 2019
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    • Community Needs Survey 2019
    • #CareForNC, new statewide campaign launches
    • Regional Health Council Update – January 2020
    • 1915(b)(c) Waivers Renewal Extended to July 1, 2019
    • 1915(b)(c) Waiver Renewal
    • Thompson Opens a New and Innovative Program for Adolescent Girls in Partnership with Cardinal Innova
    • Closings: February 20, 2020
    • March CFAC Update: Triad Goes on the Road
    • Educational Program Helps Young Adults with IDD Become Thriving Adults
    • Delays: February 21, 2020
    • Regional Health Council Update - February 2020
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    • Community Needs Assessment 2020
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Holds Mental Health First Aid Training Class
    • January CFAC Update: Learn about the Bonnie Schell Scholarship
    • Message from the CEO - December 2019
    • CFAC Update: Let your Voice be Heard
    • Request for Proposals for Construction Services
    • CFAC Update: Opportunity Awaits
    • Federal Court Ruling Supports Cardinal Innovations’ Authority to Manage and Adjust Reimbursement Rat
    • East Carolina Behavioral Health, CoastalCare, and Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions Announce
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    • Center for Prevention Services Awarded Grant Funding from Cardinal Innovations Healthcare
    • Cardinal Innovations to Participate in 2014 Charlotte Chamber Health Care Summit Friday
    • Cardinal Innovations Southern Region Celebrates September as National Recovery Month
    • Cardinal Innovations Offers Free Crisis Access Line for Depression, Mental Illness and Addiction
    • Cardinal Innovations Northern Region Celebrates Mental Health Awareness Month
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare hosts Loved Ones Affected by Addiction Support Group
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare System of Care Manager Beth Pfister Receives Gary Ander Making a Dif
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    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions Adds New Charlotte Service Center
    • Join CFAC: Share Your Feedback on Meeting Members' Needs
    • September CFAC Update: New Officers Elected
    • CFAC Update: New Structure Began July 1, 2019
    • Medicaid Transformation and Tailored Plans Explained
    • Strategic Partnership to Improve Overall Delivery of Medicaid Managed Care in NC
    • State Grant Awarded to Cardinal Innovations for Youth Crisis Services
    • Serving Complex Populations With Community-Based, Person-Centric Care
    • Recursos Adicionales Disponibles para Personas que no son Elegibles Para Medicaid o Para Beneficios
    • Randomized Controlled Trial of Family Centered Treatment (FCT) in North Carolina
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    • CFAC Update: Executive CFAC Completes New Bylaws
    • North Carolinians Seeking Mental Health Care Might Encounter Problems
    • New Wellness Partnership Provides Health Resources to Residents with Special Needs
    • NC MedAssist Luncheon to Foster Healthcare Insurance Gap Conversation
    • Journalist, author Sam Quinones shares insights on opioid addiction from his book, ‘Dream Land’
    • Forsyth County Behavioral Health Groups Schedule Event to Discuss Suicide Prevention
    • Eastpointe Human Services Approves Consolidation with Cardinal Innovations Healthcare
    • Domestic Violence Survivors Often Need Housing, Grant Will Offer Help In Orange County
    • DHHS Secretary Wos Hears Criticism From Lawmakers Over Medicaid Waiver
    • County Employees Learn about Psychosis Symptoms in Cardinal Innovations Training
    • Conferences Offer Insights on Opioids, Criminal Justice, Economic Issues
    • Cardinal Innovations provides life-saving opioid antidote to community
    • Cardinal Innovations distributes more than 6,000 Narcan kits to Rowan County
    • Cardinal Innovations Northern Region Celebrates September as National Recovery Month
    • Cardinal Innovations Signs 5-Year Lease for Charlotte Operations Center
    • Cardinal Innovations Signs Lease for Community Operations Center in Uptown Charlotte
    • Cardinal Innovations Opens Mecklenburg Community Operations Center Uptown
    • Cardinal Innovations Celebrates Mental Health Awareness Month
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    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare earns NCQA Full Accreditation for Managed Behavioral Health Organiza
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions to Manage Medicaid Funding in Mecklenburg County
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Selected As Partner Organization for NCServes-Raleigh/Durham Initiat
    • Cardinal Innovations Hosts Mecklenburg Crisis Symposium
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Launches Campaign to Raise Awareness and Access to Services
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    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Consolidation Approved by CenterPoint
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Co-Sponsors Mecklenburg Opioid Conference
    • Cardinal Innovations Employees Work with Rowan County Fifth Graders on Video Production
    • Board Agrees to Fund Some Mental Health Services Through June 30, 2014
    • Mecklenburg Will Continue to Fund Some Mental Health Services
    • Message from the Interim CEO - March 2018
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    • Perception of Care Survey
    • CFAC Update May 2019
    • Message from the CEO - May 2019
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare and CMPD Work Together to Address Mental Health and Substance Use
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    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions Names Deputy General Counsel
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Presents Internationally Renowned Speakers at Symposium
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    • Cardinal Innovations & Community Leaders Celebrate New Mecklenburg Community Operations Center
    • Cardinal Innovations CEO Pam Shipman to Retire after 28 Years of Service and Leadership
    • Brandy Stephens Joins Cardinal Innovations as Mecklenburg Community Partners Manager
    • Audit: DHHS Ill-Equipped to Handle Troubles With Medicaid Billing System
    • Additional Resources Available To Individuals Not Eligible For Medicaid and State-Funded Behavioral
    • 5 Questions With the CEO of Cardinal Innovations — and a Peek Into its Financials
    • Message from the CEO - April 2019
    • CFAC Update April 2019
    • Message from the CEO - March 2019
    • Restructuring Update: Executive CFAC Continues to Rework Bylaws
    • Remembering a member of our community
    • Cardinal Innovations Receives NAADAC Accreditation
    • Wellness Centers: Focusing on the Health of the Whole Person
    • Hundreds benefit from free MedAssist event
    • Restructuring Update: Executive CFAC Finalizing Changes to Bylaws
    • Request for Proposals Commercial TPO Roof
    • Alert: Hepatitis A Outbreak in Mecklenburg County
    • 2018-2019 Member Materials
    • Joint RFP Issued for Care Management Solution
    • Cabarrus County Schools Receives Grant
    • Message from the CEO – January 2019
    • NC DHHS to Host Behavioral Health I/DD Tailored Plan Webinar
    • Mecklenburg's Youth Crisis Center Now Open
    • Winter Storm Diego Updates
    • Message from the CEO - December 2018
    • Strengthening Voices: CFAC Restructuring
    • Message from the CEO - November 2018
    • Breaking the Stigma of Mental Illness
    • Message from the CEO – October 2018
    • Message from the CEO - September 2018
    • Health care initiative gives funds to United Way
    • Task Force Looking for More Landlords to House Homeless Veterans
    • Andrea Misenheimer Presents at AAIDD’s 137th Annual Conference
    • Cardinal Innovations Accepts Funding to Help Homeless
    • Cardinal Innovations and Urban Ministry Center Help Homeless
    • Cardinal Innovations Celebrates I/DD Awareness Month in March
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions Achieves ICD-10 Compliance
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions Welcomes Two New Directors
    • Cardinal Innovations Plans Integrated Healthcare Fun Day
    • Cardinal Innovations to Assume State Funding for Mecklenburg County
    • Flay Lee to Receive Martha Bedell Alexander Award
    • Grief Counseling Related to Overdose Deaths
    • Notice of Meeting of the Finance Committee of the Governing Board
    • Request for Proposals for Construction Manager at Risk
    • Cardinal Innovations Moves to a New Location in Alamance County
    • September is National Suicide Prevention Month
    • Free Over the Counter Medicine for the Forsyth Community
    • Pam Shipman, Managed Care Pioneer, Retires as Cardinal CEO
    • Rally Celebrates Victory Over Addiction
    • Rockingham County's Opiate Overdoses Surpass Last Year
    • Scientists Play 'Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader'
    • Opioid Deaths and Related Issues are Discussed at Community Meeting
    • N.C. Center for Safer Schools Rolls Out Pilot CIT-Youth Training
    • Mental Health Collaborative to Hear Report on Local Services Access
    • State Proposes Experimental Health Networks for Medicaid Patients
    • MCO’s Still Cautious About Merger Plans
    • ABSS Educates Staff on Triggers, Considers Additional Services
    • Amid Anxiety, Mental Health Group Says Few Changes in Works
    • April 1 Marks Anniversary of Major Milestone for Behavioral Health
    • Behavioral Health Community Braces for Oversight Switchover
    • Break the Silence Around Substance Use Disorders
    • Burlington Police Defuse Suicide Threat
    • McCrory Administration Officials Suppressed Insight Into Medicaid
    • Medicaid Advisors Get an Earful During Public Meeting
    • McClure Sworn in as NCACC President
    • IT Organizations Give Nod to a Free Hypervisor Option
    • In Alamance County, Police Have Nowhere Else to Take Mentally Ill
    • Guest Speaker Makes SCS’s Transition Fair More Personal
    • Advisory Group Begins to Sketch Future of State Medicaid System
    • Holly Hill to Open Children’s Psychiatric Hospital
    • Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Sponsors HACKATHONclt MMXVII
    • Cardinal Innovations Opens New Community Office in Burlington
    • Cardinal Plans Community Open House for Wednesday
    • County Stepping Up to Reduce Population of Mentally Ill in Jail
    • DHHS' NCTracks Earns Certification from Federal Government
    • Free Medication Available Friday From Forsyth Health Department
    • McCrory Defends DHHS Chief After Agency's Latest Misstep
    • N.C. Medicaid Overhaul Shifts To Regional Managed Care Plans
    • Changes at the Arc of Rowan
    • Wos grilled about salary, Medicaid reform
    • Warren County Community Leaders Address Opioid Abuse
    • Veteran Support Specialist Program Launches Trial Class
    • Task Force Celebrates Finding Home for Veteran and Her Service Dog
    • Student Campaign Hosts Suicide Prevention Event
    • State Plans to Consolidate Mental Health Centers
    • McCrory makes Medicaid advisory appointments
    • Legislators want answers on DHHS problems
    • CenterPoint moving forward with merger plans
    • Attorney General Roy Cooper says state should expand Medicaid
    • A Community's On-Site Outreach Shifts Law Enforcement's Mindset
    • A Person-Centric Approach To Managed Care
    • Homicides in Charlotte keep climbing. ‘We have to do something.’
    • Medicaid managed care executives say plans must tackle social determinants, opioid epidemic
    • NC MedAssist and Cardinal Innovations Provide Free Meals
    • Interim Cardinal CEO Says He's Creating A Culture Of Transparency
    • FY 2019 Budget Submitted to Board of Directors
    • Update from the CEO - May 2018
    • NC DHHS requests input on draft HCBS Plan
    • Domestic violence shelter to get much-needed remodel
    • Mother recalls day that changed her life
    • Medical professionals debunk drug abuse myths
    • Hundreds of Narcan kits deployed across Vance, surrounding counties
    • County receives Narcan kits
    • Cardinal to host town hall in Winston-Salem
    • Cardinal Innovations leads opioid antidote distribution
    • Cardinal Innovations donates opioid resource kits to Concord Police
    • Alamance County mulls opioid suit, plans incentives hearing
    • Message from the CEO - June 2018
    • Stokes Circle of Parents selected to receive funding
    • Message from the CEO - July 2018
    • Executive CFAC Elects New Interim Chair
    • Struggling to cope? An online 'mental health peer' can lend support
    • Message from the CEO - August 2018
    • New Local Resources Search Tool
    • Waiver Extension Announced
    • Medicaid changes could complicate mental-health reform
    • Medical Societies Start Push Back on Medicaid Reform Proposal
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