North Carolina Area Health Education Centers

Recruit, Train, Retain: Developing the Workforce for a Healthy North Carolina

6,000
Providers + 1,400
Practices Served
2,200
Pre-College Students
Served Annually
215,811
Professionals
Trained Annually

Featured Content

Medicaid Managed Care Webinar Series

NC DHHS and NC AHEC offer a series of webinars, virtual office hours, and virtual PHP meet & greet sessions to help prepare providers, practice and quality managers for Medicaid Managed Care.

Learn More

Our Mission

We provide and support educational activities and services with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train, and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy North Carolina.

About Us

Keeping Kids Well Program

To increase well-child visits and immunization rates, NC AHEC has partnered with CCNC and NC DHHS to help practices experiencing a greater number of care gaps improve these measures and raise awareness among parents.

Learn More

A Message from the Program Office

We are saddened by the persistent and pervasive injustices to Black and Brown people and other multicultural populations as evidenced by recent and historical acts of structural racism, violence, inequities, and power paradigms.

Read More

NC Health Information Exchange Authority

NC AHEC has partnered with the NC HIEA to deliver virtual and on-site training programs to educate providers about the features available in NC HealthConnex, the state-designated health information exchange.

Learn More
Request Training
Map Marker

Serving North Carolina with 9 centers

View our interactive map of our Area Health Education Centers

View Map

AHEC Training

Creating a better state of health.
Get trained and certified today.

News & Highlights

NC AHEC Partners with NC DHHS and CCNC to Launch Keeping Kids Well Program

NC AHEC Program Office

NC AHEC Partners with NC DHHS and CCNC to Launch Keeping Kids Well Program

Read More
RN Refresher Program Waives Tuition and Fees for Accelerated Online Course

NC AHEC Program Office

RN Refresher Program Waives Tuition and Fees for Accelerated Online Course

Read More
NC DHHS Recruiting Health Care Volunteers in Response to COVID-19

NC AHEC Program Office

NC DHHS Recruiting Health Care Volunteers in Response to COVID-19

Read More
View More
Sign up to receive news and updates