Northwest Area Health Education Center/ State Employees Credit Union Telemedicine Mini-Grants are available to help area practices!

Submit your proposal to the Northwest AHEC Practice Support team by August 21st to be eligible.

Up to $10,000 in project assistance and coaching available for area health providers. 

Submit your proposal here!

More details are below. 

NEW DATES! Best Practices in the Prevention and Treatment of Disordered Eating
REGISTER ONLINE AT WWW.NWAHEC.ORG/60676

This series of one-hour sessions will provide health care providers with best practices for prevention, screening, identification and treatment of disordered eating.

This activity will be offered via Webex only.

Scheduled Series Dates:

One of the primary reasons for establishing the North Carolina AHEC system in 1972 was to increase the number of primary care physicians trained in the state with a focus on placing graduates in underserved communities.

Funds are provided to each of the four medical schools and their primary care departments to expand the training of primary care residents, and to enhance the possibility that graduates will settle in the state. In the Northwest AHEC, these funds provide a stipend based upon the number of approved full time employees in the primary care department residency programs.

Leadership coach, motivational speaker, trainer, and columnist Nigel D. Alston sits down for a conversation about healthy communities, where we are, and how we can improve the health of our communities, especially impoverished minority communities.

We recently came across this article about habits formed during quarantine and COVID-19. These are trying times but the shutdown and stay-at-home orders have also allowed a lot more family time and reflection time to give back to yourself. Some of these new and improved lifestyle changes are some we should try to keep around even post COVID-19 distancing. Is this a new normal for some of us? 

Three Webinars:
Each webinar to be one and a half day
Aug. 24– 25, Oct. 19 – 20, Dec. 2 – 3
Plus two clinical days to be scheduled

This course targets health care professionals who work with breastfeeding mothers, and offers necessary knowledge and skills for providing basic breastfeeding management and support. These skills focus on basic prenatal and postpartum counseling, and the management of common concerns and clinical problems.

The interactive training involves five days of didactic sessions, two days of clinical rotations and an independent study assignment. The clinical days will be scheduled to occur between the first two days and last 2 days of the program.

NOTE: Due to COVID pandemic, this event will be via live webinar only.

Scientific research shows that preventative measures such as hand washing and wearing cloth coverings over the nose and mouth are effective ways to protect ourselves, our loved ones and our communities by lowering risk of exposure to COVID-19.

That’s why yesterday, Governor Roy Cooper announced that coverings over their nose and mouth must be worn when people are in both indoor and outdoor public spaces. This step, in addition to encouraging people to stay six feet apart, wash hands, and stay home when ill, will help us