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Media Contact: Katie Weber, (919) 960-7022, Ext. 201 or katie@ncpreventionpartners.org

2010

  • Open Approach Puts Staff on line for Wellness Plans (Fri, Jun 8)
     
  • NC Prevention Partners, Pfizer, Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, and Fit City Challenge Join Forces to Support Local Businesses to Reduce Preventable Health Care Costs (Thurs, May 6)
     
  • NC Prevention Partners and Greensboro Chamber of Commerce Join Forces to Support Local Businesses to Reduce Preventable Health Care Costs (Thurs, Mar 11)
     
  • Hospital's No-Smoke Plan Wins: Wake Forest Baptist first in state to 'achieve gold-star' recognition, Winston-Salem Journal (Weds, Jan 27)
  • Melva Fager Okun, Quit Tobacco Program Manager, discusses NC's new state-wide tobacco ban in restaurants and bars on "News and Views" on WRAL

  • Meg Molloy discusses chronic disease prevention with Adam Goldstein on WCHL's Here's to your Health (Sat, Jan 2) You must have Quicktime enabled to listen to this interview.


2009

  • NCPP Congratulates State on Decreased Adult Smoking Rate (Mon, Nov 16)
  • NC Prevention Partners Launches New Website (Tues. Oct 27)
  • NCPP’s Innovative Wellness Study for NCDOT Focuses on Preventing Chronic Disease (Thurs. Sept 17)
  • NC Prevention Partners Wins Award for Healthy Workplace Policies (Thurs. Aug 27)
  • Statement in Support of Increasing N.C.'s Cigarette Tax (Wed. July 8)
  • NC Prevention Partners Names Health and School Policy Experts to its Board of Directors (Wed. July 1)
  • All N.C. Hospitals will be 100% Tobacco-Free as of July 6, 2009 (Tues. June 30)
  • NC Prevention Partners Senior Manager Presents at National Tobacco Conference (Thurs. June 11)
  • NC Prevention Partners Honors North Carolina Leaders who Make it Easier to be Healthy (Wed. June 3)
  • NC Gets Better Grades on Preventing Tobacco Use; Nutrition and Physical Activity Still Lagging (Wed. May 27)
  • Dr. Meg Molloy Gives Keynote Address at Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Health Summit (Wed. May 20)
  • NC Prevention Partners Joins Governor Perdue as She Signs Law to Protect Workers from Secondhand Smoke (Tues. May 19)
  • NC Prevention Partners Senior Health Promotion Manager Joins Expert Health Panel (Tues. Apr. 28)
  • Dr. Meg Molloy Will Discuss Workplace Wellness Benefits At Annual Meeting of Health Underwriters (Tues. Apr. 21)
  • Business, Hospital And Community Leaders: Reduce Health Costs And Improve Employee Health (Wed. Mar. 18)
  • Statement in Support of House Bill 2 to Protect Against Secondhand Smoke (Thurs. Jan. 29

 

2008

  • Beverly Biggs recieves Outstanding Fundraising Professional Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals (Wed. Dec. 10)
  • Meg Molloy Named to Poe Center for Health Education's Board of Directors (Mon. Oct 13)
  • Media Advisory: Reduce Health Costs and Improve Employee, Student & Community Health (Fri. Sept. 26)
  • NC Prevention Partners Distributing New Healthy Food Guidelines to NC Hospitals for Employees and Visitors (Wed. Sept. 24)
  • Media Advisory: NC Prevention Partners Will Launch Healthy Food Initiative for All NC Hospitals (Thurs. Sept. 18)
  • NC Prevention Partners Names Three Health Policy Experts to its Board of Directors (Tues. July 1)
  • At its 10th Annual Meetng, NC Prevention Partners Honors Prevention & Health Leaders Statewide (Wed. June 4)
  • Media Advisory: NC Prevention Partners To Honor Prevention and Health Leaders (Wed. May 28)
  • NC Prevention Partners Receives Two Hermes Creative Awards (Wed. May 7)
  • NC Prevention Partners' Melva Fager Okun Honored (Fri. Mar. 28)
  • State Board of Education and NC Prevention Partners Announce Resolution to Reduce Childhood Obesity (Wed. Mar. 5)
  • Media Advisory: Employers, School and Hospital Leaders: Reduce Your Health Care Costs and Improve Employee, Student Health (Wed. Feb. 20)
  • Call for Nominations: 2008 NC Prevention Partners' Awards for Excellence in Prevention and Health (Tues. Feb. 12)
  • North Carolina State Health Plan and NC Prevention Partners Collaborate with NCDOT to Support Employee Wellness (Tues. Feb. 5)
  • Progress stalls in the fight to reduce preventable disease and early death in North Carolina (Wed. Jan. 23)
  • Media Advisory: The State of Prevention and Health in N.C. (Tues. Jan. 22)

 

2007

  • More than 100 North Carolina hospitals will be tobacco-free campus wide as of January 1, 2008 (Tues. Dec. 18)
  • NC Prevention Partners tapped to help hospitals offer healthier food choices (Mon. Dec. 17)
  • Six more N.C. hospitals will go tobacco-free campus wide today (Thurs. Nov. 15)
  • N.C. Center for Nonprofits Honors NC Prevention Partners (Thurs. Oct. 25)
  • NC Prevention Partners Honors Prevention & Health Leaders at its Annual Awards Ceremony (Mon. Jun. 11)


2006

  • The Duke Endowment Awards Three-year Grant to Tobacco-free Hospital Campus Initiatitive (Aug. 31)
  • NC Prevention Partners' Executive Director, Meg Molloy, Appointed to Serve as Member of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine (Jul. 1)
  • Board approves NCPP's enordorsement of the NC Alliance for Health's Second-hand Smoke Resolution (Apr. 19)
  • NC Prevention Partners Trains Hosptials in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana on Enacting 100 Percent Tobacco-free Campus Wide Policies (Apr. 14)
  • Molloy keynotes at wellness workshops for businesses (Mar. 10 & 22)
  • Eight More N.C. Hospitals Enacting Tobacco-free Campus Wide Policies on Valentine's Day (Feb. 13)
  • Molloy Testifies before N.C. General Assembly about Access and Prevention (Jan. 25)

 

2005

  • Six N.C. Hospitals to Go Tobacco-free Campus Wide on the Great American Smokeout (Nov. 14)
  • Congressman David Price and Eric Montross Recently Joined WCHL's Ron Stutts to Promote Physical Activity in Orange County (Oct. 25)
  • Tobacco, Physical Activity and Nutrition Grades are in for the State: Does North Carolina make the Prevention Grade? (Jan. 19)




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