Author Admin Posted on November 30, 2021December 26, 2022Categories INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES   Leave a comment on Substance Use is Driving Children into Foster Care. Here’s What We Can Do About It.

Substance Use is Driving Children into Foster Care. Here’s What We Can Do About It.

If you need more evidence that substance use has a long-lasting and far-reaching impact, consider this heartbreaking data: The ongoing escalation of opioid use is driving a surge in children and youth entering foster care systems across the nation. Even before COVID-19 upended global health, North Carolina’s foster care system was already experiencing “record levels of need” driven largely by opioid use. During the 2017-18 fiscal year, parental substance abuse was the primary reason children were removed from the household … Continue reading “Substance Use is Driving Children into Foster Care. Here’s What We Can Do About It.”

Author Admin Posted on November 22, 2021December 26, 2022Categories INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES   Leave a comment on It’s Time to End Surprise Billing and Unfair Pricing

It’s Time to End Surprise Billing and Unfair Pricing

It’s a story we hear all too often from our members. You visit an emergency room or need medical care that involves services like anesthesia or an x-ray. You pay what you owe for the visit and a few weeks later, a bill arrives in the mail that you weren’t expecting. You open it and find a separate charge from a specialist group for hundreds or even thousands of dollars. The questions naturally start from there – What is this? Didn’t I pay for this already? Am I being charged again? Why is … Continue reading “It’s Time to End Surprise Billing and Unfair Pricing”

Author Admin Posted on November 18, 2021December 26, 2022Categories LIFE AT BLUE CROSS NC   Leave a comment on How to be an ally to Indigenous people this American Indian Heritage Month

How to be an ally to Indigenous people this American Indian Heritage Month

When you think of American Indians, do you think of the Cherokee? Or perhaps tribes in the western United States, like the Sioux, Shoshone or Apache? You may be surprised to learn that North Carolina is home to more than 130,000 American Indians. That number includes eight tribes and four urban Indian organizations. In fact, North Carolina has the highest Native population east of the Mississippi River! November is American Indian Heritage Month – a time to celebrate and raise … Continue reading “How to be an ally to Indigenous people this American Indian Heritage Month”

Author Admin Posted on November 12, 2021December 26, 2022Categories INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES   Leave a comment on Adoptive Parents Can Also Experience the “Baby Blues” – Here’s Why That Matters

Adoptive Parents Can Also Experience the “Baby Blues” – Here’s Why That Matters

November is National Adoption Month, when our nation recognizes that families come in all shapes and sizes. The celebration presents an ideal moment to think more deeply about ongoing efforts to improve our nation’s maternal health outcomes. This important work will need to be vast in scope, and some of it should take into account that not all new family relationships are biological. Newly adoptive and foster parents need support through challenges to health and well-being too. Helping parents overcome … Continue reading “Adoptive Parents Can Also Experience the “Baby Blues” – Here’s Why That Matters”