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North Carolina’s six Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCOs) launched the NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative on May 1, 2022, to improve care for children, youth, and families served by the child welfare system.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) will delay the implementation of the NC Medicaid Managed Care Behavioral Health and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Tailored Plans (Tailored Plans) until April 1, 2023. The decision is unanimously supported by the leadership of the state’s six Local Management Entity/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCOs).

Beginning on December 1, 2022, North Carolina’s Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCOs) will begin managing NC Medicaid Tailored Plans. Most people with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD), complex mental health needs and/or substance use disorders (SUD) will automatically transition to a Tailored Plan. The Tailored Plans will offer physical health and pharmacy services, in addition to behavioral health, IDD and TBI services.

North Carolina’s six Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCOs) launched the NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative on May 1, 2022 to create a statewide solution to the current pressing challenges of the service delivery system.

As part of the NC Child and Family Improvement Initiative, launched on May 1, 2022, North Carolina’s six Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCOs) have assembled North Carolina child welfare subject matter experts and thought leaders to create a statewide solution to the current pressing challenges of the service delivery system.

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.