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North Carolina’s six Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCOs) have launched the NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative to collaboratively improve care for children, youth and families served by the child welfare system.

This month, Partners Health Management (Partners) and Thompson Child & Family Focus (Thompson) kick off the opening of a new Short-Term Crisis Stabilization facility that will help transition high-risk adolescents who are in the custody of Departments of Social Services to more stable placements.

Partners Health Management (Partners) and its community partners have been recognized with two 2021 i2i Innovation Awards for their efforts to innovate services and programming in ways that to care.

Winter weather is currently predicted to impact our area with a mixture of rain, sleet, snow and freezing rain beginning late on Saturday and going through midday Monday. Partners offices will be closed on Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.  

Effective November 1, 2021, Partners Health Management (Partners) is managing intellectual/developmental disability, mental health and substance use care for residents in Davie and Forsyth counties who receive specialized Medicaid and State-funded services.

Partners Health Management will hold a series of virtual events throughout September and October for residents of Forsyth and Davie counties impacted by the Nov. 1, 2021, transition of intellectual/developmental disability, mental health and substance use service management.

Effective today, Partners Health Management is managing intellectual/developmental disability, mental health and substance use care for residents in Cabarrus, Union and Stanly counties who receive specialized Medicaid and State-funded services.

Behavioral health and intellectual/developmental disabilities services for residents in Forsyth and Davie counties will be managed by Partners Health Management effective Nov. 1, 2021, ahead of the anticipated early 2022 transition period.

Partners Health Management (Partners) has been contracted to operate a North Carolina Behavioral Health and Intellectual/Developmental Disability (Behavioral Health/IDD) Tailored Plan as part of the state’s transition to Medicaid Managed Care.   

Partners Health Management is expanding its coverage area to include three counties in addition to the nine it was already serving (including Rutherford). As a result, the Rutherford County Commissioners approved a resolution at their meeting Tuesday that will also expand its board.