• 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
  • 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
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • 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
  • Contact
  • Health Job Listings
  • Newsletter
  • En Español
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
North Carolina Health News

North Carolina Health News

News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.

Donate

Read our Coronavirus Coverage Here

Category: Military Health

Posted inMental Health

Traumatized vets are connecting to services, but is it enough?

by Mona Dougani December 8, 2021December 7, 2021

By Mona Dougani Cornelia Vincent still struggles with the trauma she experienced years ago when a grenade pierced the tower where she was on guard while serving 10 months in Afghanistan with the U.S. Army. The explosion left the former unit supply specialist in the military police force with a shrapnel wound on her wrist […]

shows the front of a building with several flags on poles, the American flag is at half staff, as there are dead COVID patients within. A sign in front of the building reads, "Heroes work here"
Posted inFeatured

NC Veterans Nursing Home managers get a new contract, profit boost, despite managing homes where COVID deaths took place

by Thomas Goldsmith October 26, 2021October 25, 2021
Shows a brick wall with the title, "North Carolina State Veterans Home" and brass plaques on the wall from each of the branches of the U.S. military
Posted inAging

Changes for NC’s state veterans nursing homes proposed in pending budget bill

by Thomas Goldsmith September 30, 2021September 30, 2021
Hundreds of thousands of people may have been exposed to contaminated drinking water at Cape Lejeune from the 1950 to the 1980s. The Jacksonville base, covering 156,000 acres in eastern North Carolina, remains in operation today with a safe water supply. In this 2016 photo, members of the US Marine Corps and the US Navy, along with civilians, participate in a ceremony on base.
Posted inMilitary Health

Marine veterans petition for medical health registry for Camp Lejeune toxic water victims

by Greg Barnes March 16, 2021March 15, 2021
shows rows of headstones in a veterans cemetery
Posted inAging

Cooper, national leaders respond to ravaged veterans nursing homes, look ahead for solutions

by Thomas Goldsmith July 31, 2020July 31, 2020
shows the front of a building with several flags on poles, the American flag is at half staff, as there are dead COVID patients within. A sign in front of the building reads, "Heroes work here"
Posted inAging

Coronavirus deaths bring attention to privatized state veterans homes

by Thomas Goldsmith July 31, 2020July 31, 2020

Posts navigation

1 2 3 … 7 Older posts

Subscribe to our Newsletter

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

Latest News

Yet another attempt to expand Medicaid in NC

Yet another attempt to expand Medicaid in NC

June 29, 2022June 29, 2022
Could the absence of Roe change how medical schools train OB-GYNs?

Could the absence of Roe change how medical schools train OB-GYNs?

June 28, 2022June 27, 2022
Carolina  Abortion Fund helps patients sort out logistics and pay for their procedure

Carolina Abortion Fund helps patients sort out logistics and pay for their procedure

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
© 2022 News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic