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shows a woman wearing a red shirt talking to someone in a white car. They're next to a table filled with brown paper bags filled with baby formula and printed information.
Posted inChildren's Health

StarMed comes to the rescue with baby formula

by Jamille Whitlow May 27, 2022May 26, 2022

By Jamille Whitlow On Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m., cars were lined across the StarMed Healthcare parking lot on the outskirts of Charlotte.  Under a white tent, volunteers were handing out small paper bags filled with one canister of baby formula to people who had waited an hour to get nourishment for their babies. StarMed […]

The former CEO of MIssion health is pictured, next to the crossed out logos of Carolinas Healthcare system and Novant Health, which are placed above the new logo for HCA Healthcare
Posted inHospitals

Attorney General’s office had ‘great concerns’ Mission-HCA deal was rigged ‘from the beginning’

by Asheville Watchdog March 20, 2022March 19, 2022
we see the back of a man's head and his hands are holding the box for a QuickVue Home COVID test
Posted inInfectious Disease

More states to provide free home COVID test kits

by Pew Trusts December 27, 2021December 26, 2021
shows a little boy wearing a surgical mask holding a teddy bear behind him are images of COVID-19. He represents one of the thousands of North Carolinian children who have lost a caregiver to the pandemic.
Posted inChildren's Health

COVID tests are available. You just have to know where to look.

by Anne Blythe September 14, 2021September 13, 2021
Shows girls on a climbing apparatus, they're wearing masks against the coronavirus, COVID-19
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – Apr. 28 — Peeling back the mask mandate for outdoors

by Anne Blythe April 28, 2021April 7, 2022
shows a group of children sitting in a brightly colored classroom, their attention is (mostly) on the front of the room
Posted inChildren's Health

Early childhood education advocates worry Senate bill could erode quality of care

by Anne Blythe April 28, 2021April 27, 2021

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