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10 key questions about the proposed WakeMed-Atrium deal
By Michelle Crouch Key Takeaways: For almost four months, supporters and critics of Atrium Health’s proposed combination with Raleigh-based WakeMed Health and Hospitals have filled meeting rooms, fired off emails to elected officials, carried signs and bought radio ads as they argued over what the deal would mean for Wake County. Wake County commissioners are…
As Atrium pursues WakeMed, a look inside its last big North Carolina deal
By Michelle Crouch Key Takeaways: As Atrium Health continues its push to join forces with Raleigh-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals, its leaders have repeatedly pointed to another North Carolina deal as evidence of what to expect: its 2020 combination with Winston-Salem-based Wake Forest Baptist. “Don’t judge us by what we say; judge us by what…
What is Medetomidine? The latest threat in the street drug supply
By Taylor Knopf Key Takeaways: North Carolina’s supply of illicit street drugs is in a constant state of change. People are no longer buying just heroin, fentanyl or opioid pills anymore, as most samples of these illegal drugs have more than one substance in them. People often don’t know what is in their drugs because…
Remediation of former landfill sites still in limbo despite yearslong parks closures
By Skye Crawford The notation of a city incinerator on a 1937 map of Durham that hung in Daniel Richter’s lab was originally just a hint. Richter, a soils and forest ecology professor at Duke University, noticed that the waste-burning site had been at an intersection near what is now a city park, sparking concerns…
Same knee surgery, twice the price: Hospital monopolies push up healthcare costs
By Peter Whoriskey KFF Health News More than a million times a year, a U.S. surgeon slices open a knee, strips out worn cartilage, caps the leg bones with metal, and drops in a plastic spacer to allow the new joint to glide. While knee replacement procedures have become standard, however, the prices charged have…
Now federally recognized, the Lumbee want better healthcare. They may be on their own.
By Andrew Jones KFF Health News LUMBERTON, N.C. — Soybean fields surround Angie Lowery’s home in Robeson County, on a plot of rural land in southeastern North Carolina. Dozens of antique gas station signs, 20 feet tall, dominate her front yard. A framed re-creation of The Last Supper, Lone Ranger posters, and a 3-foot-wide tobacco…