• 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
North Carolina Health News

North Carolina Health News

News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.

Donate

Read our articles published in partnership with The Charlotte Ledger

Tag: Appalachian Regional Commission

Posted inRural Health

In North Carolina’s mountains, broadband isn’t a given

by Liora Engel-Smith July 7, 2021August 31, 2022

By Liora Engel-Smith Internet dead zones are as much a staple of Appalachia as the mountains, lakes and rivers that have made the region so popular among tourists. The pandemic — and the lack of broadband infrastructure in some of these areas — has pushed North Carolina’s mountain people to embrace short-term solutions, including Wi-Fi […]

A person in a sports cap holding a needle box to be packed away and delivered to needle exchange participants. Dunlap says they meth use never went away in Haywood County.
Posted inRural Health

Even as opioids ravage WNC, mountain folks say meth never went away

by Liora Engel-Smith December 3, 2019December 3, 2019
The Appalachian Mountains near the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina may benefit from the ARC's recovery ecosystem model. The area has a quickly growing outbreak of COVID-19
Posted inRural Health

New dollars target opioid misuse, workforce revitalization in WNC

by Liora Engel-Smith September 11, 2019September 12, 2019
five people sit on stools with red backdrop behind them discussing hepatitis C prevention
Posted inInfectious Disease

New funds for hepatitis C prevention available until the end of July

by Taylor Knopf July 1, 2019June 30, 2019
shows a winding mountian road, only one car ahead, leaves changing color, blue skies
Posted inRural Health

Three N.C. Counties Named ‘Bright Spots’ of Health in Appalachia

by Taylor Knopf July 31, 2018July 30, 2018

Subscribe to our Newsletter

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

Latest News

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
Charter schools get larger share in second round of state grant for period hygiene supplies

Charter schools get larger share in second round of state grant for period hygiene supplies

March 21, 2023March 21, 2023

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