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Erendira needs a kidney
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven This story details the experiences of a woman on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program whose parents and husband are undocumented. To protect her loved ones’ identities and decrease their risk of deportation, we are only using her first name. Erendira’s family immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico when she was…
No health insurance? A non-profit seeks to improve colon cancer screening
By Elizabeth Egan UNC Media Hub In 2015, only 34 percent of patients at community health centers in Buncombe County, North Carolina, were up to date with their colorectal cancer screening. In only six years, that number rose to over 70 percent. Much of this increase can be attributed to the work of the Western…
“Nobody cares if we’re shuttled off somewhere”
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Jessica Aguilar has twin 10-year-old boys with autism. The family lives in Union County, just southeast of Charlotte. The boys require support workers to help them live with more ease — people who will take them to activities in the community, or who will help them practice new skills, like saying hi…
How much should nonprofit hospital CEOs make? NC Treasurer’s report fuels debate.
By Michelle Crouch and Rose Hoban As health care costs continue to rise, the executives of North Carolina’s nine largest nonprofit hospital systems have received double- and triple-digit percentage raises over the past decade, according to a report released last week by the State Treasurer’s Office. The report found that the hospital systems paid their…
Medicaid expansion bill glides through committees in the state House of Representatives
By Rose Hoban Often legislative committee hearings are sleepy affairs, attended by lawmakers, lobbyists and the occasional person interested in the intricacies of government. That was not the case Tuesday on the sixth floor of the legislative office building. The size and excitement of the crowd looked more like someone had a small stash of…
Disability rights advocates scramble to work around delay in expansion of state services
By Anne Blythe Disability Rights North Carolina wasted no time in developing a new plan after suffering a setback last week in the organization’s six-year court battle to push the state to provide more home and community services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour agreed to temporarily halt the…