Care Management for High-Risk Pregnancies and Children May Not Be Provided Locally in 2027
If prepaid health plans choose to bring the service in-house, it will reduce the Health Department's annual revenue by $100,000.
Cheryl Dabbs Huskey and Lori Ribelin Overman are cousins, each benefitting from a supportive network of family and friends who, without hesitation, stepped up to make sure they had access to the resources they needed as new mothers. They are also both Registered Nurses (RNs) with the Caswell County Health Department (CCHD) and say they recognize that not every expectant mother and young child is as fortunate and are worried about what will happen to those mothers and children if care management services are no longer locally administrated.
“You wouldn’t believe the number of moms who do this alone,” Huskey shared during an interview on Tuesday, September 1.
