• Donate
  • Subscribe to Newsletter
  • Home
  • About
    • Awards & Recognition
    • Our Mission
    • Our Board
    • Be Our Sponsor!
    • Donors & Supporters
    • Editorial Policy & Terms of Use
    • Comments Policy
    • Our Team
  • Contact
  • Topics
    • Aging
    • Children’s Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Gender health
    • Health Inequities
    • Medicaid
    • Mental Health
    • Oral Health
    • Prison Health
    • Public Health
    • State Health Policy
    • Rural Health
  • Series
    • Voices from the pandemic
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • Youth climate stories: Outer Banks edition
    • Seeking Help and Getting Handcuffed
    • Unequal Treatment: Mental health parity in North Carolina
    • Storm stories – NC Health News works with teens from SE North Carolina to tell their hurricane experiences
    • Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S. could learn from them.
  • Health Care Half Hour
  • Health Care Job Listings
  • Coronavirus
  • En Español
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
North Carolina Health News

North Carolina Health News

News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.

  • Donate
  • Subscribe to Newsletter
Donate
  • Home
  • About
    • Awards & Recognition
    • Our Mission
    • Our Board
    • Be Our Sponsor!
    • Donors & Supporters
    • Editorial Policy & Terms of Use
    • Comments Policy
    • Our Team
  • Contact
  • Topics
    • Aging
    • Children’s Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Gender health
    • Health Inequities
    • Medicaid
    • Mental Health
    • Oral Health
    • Prison Health
    • Public Health
    • State Health Policy
    • Rural Health
  • Series
    • Voices from the pandemic
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • Youth climate stories: Outer Banks edition
    • Seeking Help and Getting Handcuffed
    • Unequal Treatment: Mental health parity in North Carolina
    • Storm stories – NC Health News works with teens from SE North Carolina to tell their hurricane experiences
    • Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S. could learn from them.
  • Health Care Half Hour
  • Health Care Job Listings
  • Coronavirus
  • En Español

Read our articles published in partnership with The Charlotte Ledger

Author Archives: Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven

Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven covers rural health and Medicaid. She previously worked at the Asheville Citizen Times where she reported on the police, courts, and other aspects of the criminal justice system. Before moving to WNC, she worked as a freelancer in Chicago, where she wrote about immigration for The Intercept, In These Times, The Chicago Reader, and more. The Chicago Headline Club selected her story on how a teenage girl raised her 8-year-old sister after their parents were deported in the middle of the night as a 2020 finalist for best in-depth reporting. She has a masters in journalism from Northwestern, and a bachelors in women’s studies from the University of Michigan.

shows a woman's back with the words "Love Shouldn't Hurt" painted on it
Posted inHealth Inequities

Barriers prevent rural domestic violence survivors from getting the care they need. For Latinx survivors, it’s even worse.

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven January 10, 2023January 10, 2023
shows a crowd of people in Times Square, surrounded by LED signs. Someone stands in front of a large digital sign with large letters that read 2023.
Posted inFeatured

What’s coming in 2023 in NC’s health care scene? Here’s what we’ll be tracking.

by Will Atwater, Anne Blythe, Rose Hoban, Rachel Crumpler, Taylor Knopf, Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven and Thomas Goldsmith January 3, 2023January 4, 2023
shows a man in a suit and tie gesturing with his hands as he speaks about Medicaid expansion
Posted inFeatured

What did you read on NC Health News in 2022?

by Rose Hoban, Will Atwater, Anne Blythe, Rachel Crumpler, Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, Thomas Goldsmith and Taylor Knopf December 30, 2022January 4, 2023
a health care provider in yellow scrubs takes the pulse of a little boy in a red stripped shirt
Posted inMedicaid

Federal settlement ensures NC Medicaid beneficiaries won’t lose coverage improperly

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven December 21, 2022December 21, 2022
shows the stomach of a woman having a pregnancy ultrasound
Posted inGender health

Drug testing policies for pregnant patients vary dramatically from hospital to hospital, new study finds

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven December 16, 2022December 18, 2022
a health care provider in yellow scrubs takes the pulse of a little boy in a red stripped shirt
Posted inMedicaid

Study finds Medicaid managed care transition still impacted by poor communication, patient confusion and administrative burden

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven December 7, 2022December 6, 2022

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3 4 … 12 Older posts

Subscribe to our Newsletter

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Latest News

Reentry simulation helps participants understand challenges facing people newly released from prison and jail

Reentry simulation helps participants understand challenges facing people newly released from prison and jail

March 24, 2023March 23, 2023
NC doctors walk the halls of General Assembly to oppose more abortion limits 

NC doctors walk the halls of General Assembly to oppose more abortion limits 

March 23, 2023March 22, 2023
Food waste composting gains traction in NC

Food waste composting gains traction in NC

March 22, 2023March 21, 2023

Post Types

  • Post (3,547)
  • Page (93)

Categories

  • Featured (3,072)
  • State Health Policy (1,090)
  • Public Health (1,088)
  • Infectious Disease (664)
  • Children's Health (578)

Tags

  • COVID-19 (622)
  • coronavirus (548)
  • NC General Assembly (510)
  • NC Department of Health and Human Services (455)
  • Gov. Roy Cooper (399)

Year

  • 2023 (63)
  • 2022 (301)
  • 2021 (383)
  • 2020 (494)
  • 2019 (308)

North Carolina Health News
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
© 2023 News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic