Submitted by:
May Cheung, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, Charlotte Area Health Education Center
Mona Brown Ketner RN, MSN, C-EFM, Northwest Area Health Education Center
Claire W. Mills, MPH, RN, FACHE, Eastern Area Health Education Center

The Perinatal Post is a biannual online newsletter distributed to perinatal care providers within the Northwest North Carolina area. It is published in winter and summer of each year.

Gravidas at Risk is an annual two-day statewide perinatal conference designed to address both inpatient and outpatient care. This conference will provide current information about clinical issues and strategies important in the care of high-risk pregnant women.

Save the Date - 2020 Breast Cancer Symposium!

October 23, 2020 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Virtual Conference

Mark your calendar for the 2020 Breast Cancer Symposium, which will be a Virtual Conference on October 23rd! 

Excessive alcohol use, which affects almost a third of adults, is the nation’s third leading cause of preventable death. It is a major risk factor for many health, social, and economic problems. In addition, the problem has worsened with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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?