UnitedHealthcare supports efforts to improve maternal health throughout North Carolina

The pandemic has made it clear that North Carolina’s most-vulnerable populations are often most at-risk for negative health-impacts; in fact, the state ranks 31st, in both health-outcomes and maternal health. Michelle Bucknor is the chief medical-officer for United-Healthcare’s “Community Plan of North Carolina”… “Health-equity is about helping people of all backgrounds live their healthiest lives—by ensuring that they receive the care and support [that] they need. That’s why we’ve teamed up with community-partners, statewide—including local food-banks, health-organizations, and research-institutions. Our one-point-two-five-million-dollar grant to ‘East Carolina University’—and our 175-thousand-dollar grant to ‘Unified Women’s Healthcare’—aim to improve North Carolina’s unacceptably low maternal-health ranking—and to make pregnancy and childbirth safer, for expecting mothers.” To learn more, visit “u-h-c-community-plan”-dot-com-slash-“n-c”.