Health care workers at a recent symposium in Greenville heard suggestions for improving the delivery of health care to eastern North Carolina, a region challenged by medical issues among some populations. They also were given an overview of the approaching effect of health care reform.

President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, but the bulk of reform takes effect in 2014.

At the Health Care Reform Symposium on Friday at the East Carolina Heart Institute, Allen Feezor, senior policy adviser with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, told the audience that he hoped his remarks on health care reform would prompt them to take action now to prepare for the new law’s effect on their medical practices and facilities in 2014.

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