More Than $1 Million Awarded to Six North Carolina Community Health Centers to Combat Maternity Deserts
A Commitment to Investing in Women and Children in Rural Communities Every mother deserves access to quality prenatal The North Carolina Community Health Center Association (NCCHCA) has awarded over $1 million to six rural North Carolina community health centers to combat maternity deserts. The funding is part of a $2.8 million commitment from The Leon Levine Foundation (TLLF) to Perinatal Access to Care and Health in North Carolina (PATCH-NC), which aims to expand access to high-quality maternity care in rural North Carolinas. The funds will be used to reduce maternity care deserts, increase the number of family physicians providing prenatal care, improve the timeliness of care, and strengthen the rural maternity care workforce pipeline. The March of Dimes recently designated more than one-third of North Carolina’s counties as Maternity Deserts or Low-Access Maternity counties.
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A Commitment to Investing in Women and Children in Rural Communities
RALEIGH, NC, UNITED STATES, October 26, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — North Carolina Community Health Center Association (NCCHCA)–in p... [6186 symbols]
