{"id":450,"date":"2026-05-08T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/?p=450"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:07:53","slug":"unc-hospital-announced-as-nc-roots-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/2026\/05\/08\/unc-hospital-announced-as-nc-roots-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC Hospital to Lead Rural Health Transformation in NC Region 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 [&quot;blockquote&quot;,{}]\">We are excited to share that UNC Hospitals has been selected as the NC ROOTS (North Carolina Rural Organizations Orchestrating Transformation for Sustainability) Hub Lead for <a class=\"ProsemirrorEditor-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdhhs.gov\/medicaid\/managed-care-regions-and-rollout\/download\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdhhs.gov\/medicaid\/managed-care-regions-and-rollout\/download\">Region 4<\/a> as part of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services&#8217; Rural Health Transformation Program.<\/p>\n<p>As one of UNC Hospitals&#8217; key partners, the Center for Thriving Communities, along with its Abacus service arm, will play an important role in this work to learn what rural communities need and create a plan of action. NC ROOTS Hub Leads are locally governed networks that coordinate care and drive initiatives across North Carolina&#8217;s Medicaid regions. We are proud to be part of this effort to support rural health across our region, and strengthen community collaborations across the state.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 [&quot;blockquote&quot;,{}]\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdhhs.gov\/news\/press-releases\/2026\/05\/01\/ncdhhs-selects-nc-roots-hub-leads-strengthen-rural-health-care-across-north-carolina\">Read more from the press release from the NC Department of Health and Human Services.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to share that UNC Hospitals has been selected as the NC ROOTS (North Carolina Rural Organizations Orchestrating Transformation for Sustainability) Hub Lead for Region 4 as part of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services&#8217; Rural Health Transformation Program. As one of UNC Hospitals&#8217; key partners, the Center for Thriving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/2026\/05\/08\/unc-hospital-announced-as-nc-roots-hub\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UNC Hospital to Lead Rural Health Transformation in NC Region 4\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":false,"featured_image_medium":false,"featured_image_medium_large":false,"featured_image_large":false,"featured_image_thumbnail":false,"featured_image_alt":false,"category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/category\/news\/"},{"name":"Research","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/category\/research\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/thrivingcommunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}