• 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: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

shows several empty rocking chairs on the porch of a nursing home
Posted inAging

What’s the best way to pick a nursing home for a loved one?

by Thomas Goldsmith July 5, 2022July 4, 2022
Shows a sign reading, "The Oaks at Sweeten Creek/ Carrington Place condominiums" carved in the face in fancy letters. The rock is in front of a nursing home where multiple residents died of COVID.
Posted inAging

When a loved one dies at a nursing home, families face mazes and mirages in search for answers

by Thomas Goldsmith June 21, 2022November 15, 2022
Posted inDisabilities

Study finds racial, geographic inequities among recipients of NC disability services

by Taylor Knopf June 16, 2022June 19, 2022
a map of closed rural hospitals nation wide
Posted inRural Health

NC rural hospitals with worst financials are in poorer, more diverse counties

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven March 30, 2022August 30, 2022
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, North Carolina spent close to $1.2 billion on nursing homes for elderly Medicaid recipients in 2013.
Posted inAging

Corporate owners of troubled Thomasville nursing home escape public spotlight in state hearing

by Thomas Goldsmith and Rose Hoban March 23, 2022March 23, 2022
Shows a young woman sitting with an older man who is in a wheelchair, likely homebound, or could be in a nursing home or skilled nursing facility
Posted inAging

Biden’s promise of better nursing home care will require many more workers

by Kaiser Health News March 7, 2022March 7, 2022

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3 4 … 33 Older posts

Subscribe to our Newsletter

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

Latest News

Emailing your doctor? You may get billed for that.

Emailing your doctor? You may get billed for that.

February 8, 2023February 7, 2023
Health providers sometimes ignore mental health patients’ documented wishes during treatment

Health providers sometimes ignore mental health patients’ documented wishes during treatment

February 7, 2023February 6, 2023
Providers say legislature’s proposed ‘transgender’ bills will hurt LBGTQ youth, disrupt care

Providers say legislature’s proposed ‘transgender’ bills will hurt LBGTQ youth, disrupt care

February 6, 2023February 6, 2023

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