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Blue Cross And Blue Shield Creating Over 150 New Jobs In The Triad

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has leased space in this Madison Park facility in Winston-Salem, with plans to hire up to 170 new workers. Photo courtesy of Blue Cross NC.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield has announced it's bringing at least 350 new jobs to North Carolina. Many of the positions will be in the Triad. 

The company will be opening offices in Winston-Salem and Cary to serve Healthy Blue, a new Medicaid plan being offered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. 

According to a news release, Healthy Blue has leased 42,000 square feet of office space in Winston-Salem, where it plans to hire up to 170 workers.

Most of those positions will be customer service representatives.

Healthy Blue has also leased space in Cary, where about 200 case management and administrative jobs will be added.

Hiring in both locations is expected to continue through the end of the year.

The Healthy Blue program begins in November. The new hires will be employees of Amerigroup, which is based in Virginia. 

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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