CaroNova

CaroNova is an incubator that connects key people and organizations with promising innovations to accelerate necessary change. Our purpose is to align leaders across the Carolinas in pursuit of a better and more equitable system of care.

We’re here to instill a new approach to health innovation.

One that moves ideas further, faster, and creates lasting systems change.

We work alongside payors, providers, subject matter experts, community members and patients to find the smartest, most efficient way to scale and sustain ideas, and bring the vision of better health for everyone into reality.

To learn more about CaroNova, please visit our website at www.caronova.org.

For more background, read The Duke Endowment article, “Beyond Programs: Funding Systems Change to Improve Care for All.”

CaroNova Program Areas

CaroNova primarily works in two distinct areas: Sustained Focus Areas and Accelerator Programs, which look for new opportunities for impact across both states. We also support existing Affiliate Programs which serve as an important conduit for input and ideas from people and communities most impacted by the issues CaroNova is trying to address.

Sustained Focus Areas

Comprehensive Palliative Care for Serious Illness
Youth Mental Health

Accelerator Programs

Home Hospital Early Adopters
Opioid Stewardship

Affiliate Programs

AccessHealth of the Carolinas – AccessHealth of the Carolinas is comprised of 30 individual community-based networks of care across the North and South Carolina that provide access to coordinated primary and specialty healthcare services for low-income, uninsured residents.
- AccessHealth NC
- AccessHealth SC

Healthy People, Healthy Carolinas – Healthy People, Healthy Carolinas is a community-based approach to addressing chronic health issues, such as unhealthy weight, diabetes, and heart disease.
- Healthy People, Healthy Carolinas (North Carolina)
- Healthy People, Healthy Carolinas (South Carolina)