North Carolina's Federal TBI Program

The lead agency for the Federal TBI Program in North Carolina is the Department of Health and Human Services.

Nearly 43,000 North Carolina citizens live with the effects of TBI based on population data for the year 2000

It makes no difference if traumatic brain injuries are classified as severe, moderate or mild, they extract a large toll on the individual as well as the medical, economic and social fabric of the state.

The injury surveillance systems for TBI in North Carolina are imprecise. They can only identify the most severe cases of TBI, i.e., the number of residents who died or were hospitalized from a brain injury. In 2001 - 1,800 NC residents died from a TBI (a rate of 22.1/100,000 population).

There were 4,600 TBI hospitalizations (a rate of 56.4/100,000). Overall, the risk is twice as great in males than females in all age groups.

In addition to the preventable loss of life, there are major economic consequences from TBI. In just one year, hospital charges in NC, excluding professional fees and medication, were over $118 million for the year 2000.11 This does not include lost time from work of people with TBIs, their families nor their caretakers. The estimated years of potential life lost due to TBI deaths during from 1989 through 1998 was 65 million years.

For more information contact Sandy Ellsworth, or call her at 919-715-2774.

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