Moore County Health Director Robert Wittmann agreed, calling the new system “the wave of the future.”
By John Lentz, The Pilot
A new system aimed at making a federally funded nutritional program more efficient has been established in Moore County.
WIC, the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children, is a federal assistance opportunity for the health care and nutrition of low-income pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and infants and children under the age of 5.
WIC currently serves 53 percent of all infants born in the United States.
To better implement the new services, federal officials designated North Carolina as the leader of a four-state consortium that includes Alabama, Virginia and West Virginia. Those states will initiate the “Crossroads” electronic system, designed to replace a 30-year-old paper-based process used throughout the state.