NC AHEC

NC AHEC Recruit, Train, Retain: Developing the Workforce for a Healthy North Carolina

Leaders in the transformation of health care education and services in North Carolina

🗓 NC AHEC Future Health Professionals Week 📅 March 8–14, 2026Registration is now open for the following live webinars of...
02/05/2026

🗓 NC AHEC Future Health Professionals Week
📅 March 8–14, 2026
Registration is now open for the following live webinars offered as part of Future Health Professionals Week:

👩🏽‍💻 March 10, 6:30-7:30 p.m. | Student Webinar: “Exploring Health Careers” https://evaluations.ncahec.net/s3/Exploring-Health-Careers-Webinar-March-10-2026

🧑🏻‍💻 March 12, 6:30-7:30 p.m. | Parent/Educator Webinar: “"Supporting Your Student's Health Career Journey" https://evaluations.ncahec.net/s3/Future-Health-Professionals-Parent-Webinar-Registration

This week-long statewide celebration from March 8-14 is designed to inspire exploration of health careers and pathways across North Carolina. To see the full week’s schedule, visit www.ncahec.net/nc-ahec-future-health-professionals-week/.

🎊 We are excited to share the NC AHEC 2025 Year‑in‑Review! The report highlights some of the meaningful progress we made...
01/27/2026

🎊 We are excited to share the NC AHEC 2025 Year‑in‑Review! The report highlights some of the meaningful progress we made to help recruit, train, and retain a strong health workforce in NC. These accomplishments were only possible through the dedication of our partners across the state. 🤍 Together, we hope for a future where every North Carolinian is healthy and supported by an appropriate, well‑trained health workforce.
📘 Explore the 2025 Year‑in‑Review here: https://www.ncahec.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/NC-AHEC_Year-in-Review_1_15_2026_Final-compressed-1.pdf.

📅 NC AHEC Future Health Professionals Week🗓 March 8–14, 2026We’re excited to announce NC AHEC's statewide initiative (ak...
01/15/2026

📅 NC AHEC Future Health Professionals Week
🗓 March 8–14, 2026
We’re excited to announce NC AHEC's statewide initiative (aka celebration!) designed to inspire high school students and families to explore health career pathways and discover opportunities across North Carolina.

The week will feature:
✔ Asynchronous resources for educators and students
✔ Statewide social media highlights
✔ Spotlight videos and virtual sessions for pre-college, college, and early-career audiences

Join us as we celebrate the broad range of health careers—from direct care to innovation and emerging fields like AI—while connecting with pathway leaders and partners across NC!

Learn more and get involved: https://www.ncahec.net/nc-ahec-future-health-professionals-week/

NC AHEC would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our library users for their patience and encouragement during our ...
01/15/2026

NC AHEC would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our library users for their patience and encouragement during our transition to the new NC AHEC Digital Library format in 2025. As a new year starts, Library Services would like to recognize a few comments from our library impact survey respondents:
💛 "Appreciate the quick and accurate help of medical librarians for lit searches and copyright guidelines assistance. Thank you!"
💛 "You (Library Services) are all incredible and awesome! Thank you so much for what you do!"

Thanks again for your continued support and remember Library Services is here to help! Send questions or comments to ADL Ask Us at adl-questions@ncahec.libanswers.com.

🎉 Please join us in congratulating our very own Caroline Collier, MPH, CHES®, Associate Director of Continuing Professio...
01/14/2026

🎉 Please join us in congratulating our very own Caroline Collier, MPH, CHES®, Associate Director of Continuing Professional Development at NC AHEC for being selected as an honoree of the East Carolina University 40 Under Forty Leadership Awards program. Presented by ECU Health, the program honors ECU alumni under the age of 40 who have used their education to fuel their passions, achieve significant professional success, and lead positive change. Congratulations, Caroline! Read more at https://www.piratealumni.com/s/722/19/interior.aspx?sid=722&gid=1&pgid=5791&cid=15717&ecid=15717&crid=0&calpgid=13&calcid=791.

Calling new and experienced practice managers! Join NC AHEC's Practice Management Academy's Bootcamp session on LEADERSH...
12/09/2025

Calling new and experienced practice managers! Join NC AHEC's Practice Management Academy's Bootcamp session on LEADERSHIP. In this 9-week virtual course offered from January 8 to March 9, 2026, you will learn communication and
management skills that will help you make your practice cohesive, efficient, and welcoming for both your staff and patients.

Receive 9.0 contact hours for full participation. Sign up before 1/7/26 at https://www.southernregionalahec.org/courses-and-events/75763/leadership-practice-manager-bootcamp. We look forward to connecting with you!

As we wrap up our reflections on the accomplishments of this past fiscal year, we highlight some of the ways NC AHEC has...
12/05/2025

As we wrap up our reflections on the accomplishments of this past fiscal year, we highlight some of the ways NC AHEC has worked to support the needs of health care workers:
→ NC AHEC directly supported 1,083 primary care, specialty or behavioral health medical practices across 99 counties, including helping with managing new payment models and health care reforms, while also enhancing quality and reducing costs.
→ NC AHEC provided over 50,000 library services to health care workers from 83 counties, including performing literature searches, lending documents, and answering reference questions.
→ The NC Center on the Workforce for Health, a recent addition to NC AHEC, supported 7 AHEC regions to prepare or operationalize regional employer-led collaboratives to define and respond to local health workforce priorities, coordinated the state agency efforts to align health workforce initiatives, and is now recognized as the state’s nursing workforce center.

We celebrate the good work that has been done, and look forward to continuing our efforts to create a healthier NC. Learn more at www.ncahec.net.

🌟 Feeling grateful! We are incredibly proud of one of our NC AHEC Scholars, Sanjita Suryadevara of Piedmont AHEC, who wi...
12/02/2025

🌟 Feeling grateful! We are incredibly proud of one of our NC AHEC Scholars, Sanjita Suryadevara of Piedmont AHEC, who will be presenting her project “Predicting and Mapping Temporary Nurse Labor Costs in North Carolina: Hospital Financial Risk Mitigation and Workforce Response” at the 2025 NAO AHEC Scholars-Led Presentations on December 3. Sanjita’s upcoming presentation represents months of hard work, curiosity, and a deep passion for strengthening our healthcare system. She states, “This work has deepened my appreciation for the intersection of health policy, data science, and workforce resilience…none of this would have been possible without the unwavering support, mentorship, and encouragement from this amazing community”. Thank you, Sanjita, for your commitment to learning, leading, and making a meaningful impact! 👏🏽✨ To learn more about the NC AHEC Scholars program, visit https://www.ncahec.net/health-careers/ahec-scholars/.

During this season of thanks, we would like to take a moment to let our partners know how grateful we are for their dedi...
11/25/2025

During this season of thanks, we would like to take a moment to let our partners know how grateful we are for their dedication to the NC AHEC mission and the communities and providers we all serve. Effective partnerships with medical and health sciences schools, hospital and health systems, and all our community and state-level collaborators are a hallmark of our work. We celebrate all that we have done and look forward to building on our partnerships during the coming year to help recruit, train and retain the workforce needed for a healthy North Carolina.

As we continue to reflect on the accomplishments of this past fiscal year, we highlight some of the ways NC AHEC has wor...
11/20/2025

As we continue to reflect on the accomplishments of this past fiscal year, we highlight some of the ways NC AHEC has worked to meet the continuing professional development needs of healthcare workers:
→ NC AHEC delivered high-quality continuing professional development to over 56,000 healthcare workers, covering all 100 counties. 13% of the healthcare workers were physicians and 22% were registered nurses.
→ NC AHEC awarded over 522,000 credit hours to participants who attended NC AHEC events, covering 67 different types of credit, including 17,910 hours of National Board of Certified Counselor training and 13,021 Category A contact hours for NC psychologists.
→ NC AHEC furthered the use of innovative care management by partnering with NC DHHS to support 92 practices to implement Collaborative Care, 87 sites to deploy Tailored Care Management, 511 individuals to participate in the Practice Managers Academy and 400 Community Health Workers to improve their skills.

We celebrate the good work that has been done, and look forward to continuing our efforts to create a healthier NC. Learn more at www.ncahec.net.

As we reflect on the accomplishments of this past fiscal year, we highlight some of the ways NC AHEC has helped recruit ...
11/13/2025

As we reflect on the accomplishments of this past fiscal year, we highlight some of the ways NC AHEC has helped recruit the next generation of health care workers and supported their education:
➛ NC AHEC provided 52,208 nights of housing for students from more than 18 colleges or universities doing 1,402 rotations in 42 counties across North Carolina.
➛ NC AHEC promoted health care careers to 2,972 pre-college youth from 63 counties at 118 events and supported 230 AHEC Scholars from 42 NC colleges.
➛ Southern Regional and Mountain AHECs sponsored residencies in their regions and NC AHEC financially supported residencies in other NC programs. AHEC-supported residents are more likely to remain in NC; 54% of the 429 residents remained in NC.
We celebrate the good work that has been done, and look forward to continuing our efforts to create a healthier NC. Learn more about us at www.ncahec.net.

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