Piedmont Health Services

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1. 1970 Orange–Chatham Comprehensive Health Services begins Orange-Chatham Comprehensive Health Services began in 1970 as a joint venture of UNC's Division of Health Affairs and a local community action program, bringing federally funded primary care to rural residents. UNC staffed its health centers, including Prospect Hill and Haywood-Moncure, from September 1970, and the program later became Piedmont Health. From the Rock Wall: Carrboro Community Health Center · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, October 4, 1972, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 24, 1979, p. 1
2. September 27, 1972 Orange-Chatham Comprehensive Health Services board ends its contract with University Health Services Meeting in closed session, the board of the federally funded Orange-Chatham Comprehensive Health Services voted to end its contract with University Health Services on November 30 and hire its own medical staff. Project director Paul Alston said the University had sought control of the two most advanced clinics, at Haywood-Moncure and Prospect Hill; Vice Chancellor Cecil G. Sheps said control was never formally discussed. People: Cecil G. (Cecil George) Sheps The Daily Tar Heel, October 4, 1972, p. 1
3. November 19, 1979 A Carrboro clinic pediatrician says she is being pressed to resign over her support for the Communist Workers Party At a press conference, a pediatrician with the federally funded Orange-Chatham Comprehensive Health Services said she was being pushed to resign because she supported the Communist Workers Party and had marched at its November 3 anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, and said she would sue if forced out. The project director had taken no action and would not comment; David Hinds, chairman of the South Orange Black Caucus, spoke in her support. The Daily Tar Heel, November 20, 1979, p. 3
4. by September 5, 1994 Carrboro Community Health Center moves into a new building on Lloyd Street The Carrboro Community Health Center began seeing patients before Labor Day 1994 in a new building at 301 Lloyd Street, replacing the old center on Roberson Street, which kept the administrative offices; its official opening was set for October 2. Run by Orange-Chatham Comprehensive Health Services, which also ran centers at Haywood-Moncure and Prospect Hill, the federally funded center offered primary and dental care, a pharmacy, laboratory, radiology, nutrition and prenatal care. People: Ellie Kinnaird The Daily Tar Heel, September 27, 1994, p. 4

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