Tag: Albemarle Regional Health Services

By Rose Hoban A few days ago, Jay Smith and his wife, Yolanda, loaded up his wheelchair in the car and went down to the state Division of Motor Vehicles office near his Raleigh home to surrender his license. “You can’t do it by mail, you have to go there,” Jay Smith said. “It’s like

By Anne Blythe North Carolina is opening up COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to people who are 65 and older and simplifying its equitable distribution system in an effort to speed up the administration of the limited supplies allotted to the state each week. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, announced

By Anne Blythe Gov. Roy Cooper took time on Tuesday to draw parallels between what led to the assault on the nation’s Capitol almost a week ago and the continued effort by some to downplay the coronavirus pandemic and efforts to prevent and slow the spread of COVID-19. It comes at a time when the

By Anne Blythe Though COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna being distributed across the state offer rays of light in the fight against the coronavirus that continues to disrupt the world, North Carolina is in a very dark place. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, has spent the past

By Taylor Knopf It doesn’t take long to find a woman in the northeastern coastal town of Elizabeth City who had a baby delivered by Dr. Lindsay Stevenson, one of only two OB-GYNs in the area. Samantha Merritt was a little nervous to deliver her first child in the small, rural town of about 18,000