• 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

Tag: access to care

Treatment chairs at the new ECU affiliated dental clinic based at Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center
Posted inHealthcare Workers

Bill Would Study Rural Medical Education, Ease the Way for More Dentists

by Rose Hoban June 15, 2018June 14, 2018
a doctor in a darkened room examines xrays of breast tissue to look for cancer.
Posted inCost of Care

Study: Black Women with Breast Cancer Suffer More Financially

by Rose Hoban May 9, 2018May 10, 2018
shows a paper reading, "Insurance policy" with glasses and a pen in the foreground
Posted inHealth Insurance

ACA Made it Possible for More with Mental Health Problems to Get Care

by Rose Hoban November 27, 2017November 28, 2017
Posted inConsumer News, Health Insurance, Medicaid, NC Health Briefs, Rural Health

Survey: N.C.’s Health Care System Ranks 40th in the U.S.

by Rose Hoban September 30, 2016September 30, 2016
A Caucasian adult woman lying in a hospital bed, covered with a sheet. She is having blood drawn by a Caucasian male doctor with a Caucasian female nurse is in attendance. The patient is looking at the doctor and smiling.
Posted inChronic Disease, Featured, Health Inequities, Research News, Rural Health

High Death Rates in Cancer ‘Hotspots’ Across NC

by Editor August 9, 2016December 17, 2019
Posted inRural Health

Report Points to Disparity in Rural/Urban Life Expectancy

by Taylor Sisk February 9, 2016April 19, 2021

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3

Subscribe to our Newsletter

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

Latest News

What happens in NC now that the COVID state of emergency has expired?

What happens in NC now that the COVID state of emergency has expired?

August 17, 2022August 16, 2022
Samaritan House in Charlotte offers respite care for the homeless

Samaritan House in Charlotte offers respite care for the homeless

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022
Social media posts criticize the 988 suicide hotline for calling the police. Here’s what you need to know.

Social media posts criticize the 988 suicide hotline for calling the police. Here’s what you need to know.

August 12, 2022August 11, 2022

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