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Focusing on adult patients on Medicare

October 1, 2019 Health & Etc.

Oct. 1, 2019 The leadership team opening three new medicare care facilities in North Carolina were at the Forum to tell their story, make some connections and pitch the idea that changing the incentives in medicine is a shorter path toward cost containment and better health. Grant Walker, a ... Continue Reading →

Gun laws after Charleston and the rise in gun violence in Charlotte

May 14, 2019 Health & Etc.

May 14, 2019 Three advocates for public policy action to reduce gun violence explored options this morning. The focus was not on rolling back the Second Amendment, or a particular list of legislative initiatives. Instead, the focus was on lives lost, families torn apart, and what long list of ... Continue Reading →

3 women helping their clients rebuild their lives

March 26, 2019 Health & Etc.

March 26, 2019 The three women who gathered at the Forum presenters' table today operate in a societal space populated by the homeless, the sick, the destitute, the jobless, the skill-less, the hopeless. Each has her silo, but they have been known to work together for the benefit of their ... Continue Reading →

Promoting understanding of the complicated insurance world

January 29, 2019 Health & Etc.

Jan. 29, 2019 Robin Tolliver-Ayotunde is an insurance broker. Her background is in health insurance. On Tuesday she presented herself as marketing director for World Financial Group, a Transamerica unit based in Georgia and with a Charlotte office on Independence. She answered lots of questions ... Continue Reading →

Sickle cell patients need African-Americans to donate blood

July 13, 2018 Health & Etc.

July 13, 2018 Jessica Jankowski writes that, where the blood supply meets patients with sickle cell disease, there is “a problem.” “This past week alone, JUST ONE local hospital required over 170 of these specially matched units to treat sickle cell patients,” says Jankowski, communications ... Continue Reading →

Blue Star Mothers

May 29, 2018 Health & Etc.

May 29, 2018 They're in a sort of club, the Blue Star Mothers, that few would be excited to join: They have or have had family members in the U.S. military. The Gold Star Mothers among them have seen loved ones lose their lives in the service of their country. Yet they are reaching out to each ... Continue Reading →

How science now sees adverse experiences impacting children

May 15, 2018 Health & Etc.

May 15, 2018 Tuesday's presentation offered a view into how scientists' understanding of childhood behavior has been revolutionized by examining the impact that the violence and abuse that children witness early in their lives poisons them and seems to cause physical and mental illness later – ... Continue Reading →

3 women whose organizations are serving the elders

March 6, 2018 Health & Etc.

March 6, 2017 They tend the sick. They strengthen those recovering from illness or falls. They nourish the bodies of those who can no longer prepare meals for themselves and have no one to prepare meals for them. Most of Tuesday's questions went to Renee Rizzuti, whose organization, PACE of the ... Continue Reading →

Programs serving children need volunteers

February 20, 2018 Health & Etc.

From left: Kwain Bryant from Goodwill, Azizi Coleman from Piedmont Health Services and Sickle Agency, and Shantiqua Neely from A Child's Place. Feb. 20, 2018 Four leaders of area programs serving youth spoke about their programs today. Residents from infancy into adulthood are involved. All of the ... Continue Reading →

Terri Joelle portrays Queen Charlotte to teach history

January 23, 2018 Health & Etc.

Jan. 23, 2018 Terri Joelle portrays Queen Charlotte, as a tour guide and as a teacher of history. She brought some of her show to the Forum this morning. During her presentation, Joelle refers to slides that were viewable on the wall behind her during the presentation. Those slides are below the ... Continue Reading →

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