Community Care of the Lower Cape Fear (CCLCF) recently named Angela Ives the organization’s new executive director. She assumed her new role April 1, according to a news release.

Ives has more than 30 years of health care experience working with the Medicaid population and has been with CCLCF since its inception in 2003, the release stated. She has served in a number of roles, including care manager and care management coordinator. Since 2009 she has been CCLCF’s deputy director, overseeing care management, palliative care, patient outreach and other special grants and initiatives.
 
“With Medicaid reform underway in North Carolina, CCLCF needs an experienced leader who has a vision for how the organization will build upon and develop its role in healthcare in Southeastern North Carolina,” CCLCF board of directors chairman James Jones Jr. said in the release.
 
“Angela is committed to our mission and core values and, with her exceptional institutional knowledge and understanding of the day-to-day management and operations, she is the right person to strategically move the organization forward," he continued.

CCLCF is one of 14 Community Care networks that make up the statewide Community Care of North Carolina program. Serving nearly 100,000 Medicaid enrollees in Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Onslow and Pender counties, CCLCF links individuals with a primary care provider to serve as a medical home, emphasizing coordinated care, disease management, and quality improvement, the release stated.