NOTICE: OCTOBER 31, 2009

It is with both personal and professional sadness that I notify you that this week the state withdrew funding for the Perinatal Outreach Program. This program has provided education, consultation and technical assistance to providers of perinatal care in North Carolina for over 30 years. The program will cease operations today.

Please see the letter from Jeffrey P. Engel, MD, State Health Director, regarding the termination of funding for this program effective October 31, 2009.

For those of you participating in one of the statewide perinatal initiatives:

  1. Eliminating Elective Deliveries Before 39 Weeks
  2. Improving the Use of 17P in North Carolina
Kate Berrien will be in the State Perinatal Outreach Coordinator role at least through November and can be reached at 919-843-9336 or email kberrien@unch.unc.edu.

NC Perinatal Region VI is comprised of the 29 eastern counties. As the Perinatal Outreach Coordinator, I worked with these same counties. The NC AHEC Program, however, has a different breakdown of counties. NC Perinatal Region VI spans three AHEC regions: Eastern AHEC, Area L AHEC and South East AHEC For more information visit the NC AHEC website . Click on each AHEC to identify the counties specific to that region.

For AHEC continuing education programming, the link for the statewide AHEC calendar is statewide AHEC calendar . Each AHEC has an individual calendar listing as well.

Over the past 11 years I have had the opportunity to work with many of you personally and met numerous others through continuing education programming. My heart rejoiced, as I am sure many of yours did, last year in 2008 when the infant mortality rate was the lowest in the history of our state. I want to thank you for your support of the Perinatal Outreach Program through the years and of me personally as I worked with you and your agencies in this role. I have enjoyed working with you; the many wonderful champions for mothers and babies in our region.

Best wishes~

Mildred E. Carraway, RN, BSN
Perinatal Outreach Coordinator, NC Region VI
Eastern AHEC

Phone: 252-744-3088
Email: carrawaym@ecu.edu .






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