Central Regional Hospital Archives - North Carolina Health News

shows a woman sitting at a counter in a clean, light colored kitchen looking at the camera. She's been hounded for a medical debt incurred because NC lacks psychiatric options other than hospitals for her son

A mom owed nearly $102,000 for hospital care. Josh Stein’s office told her to pay up.

by KFF Health News July 22, 2023July 21, 2023

By Fred Clasen-Kelly KFF Health News Bridget Narsh’s son, Mason, needed urgent help in January 2020, so she was offered the chance to send him to Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility in Butner, North Carolina. The teen, who deals with autism and post-traumatic stress and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders, had started destroying furniture and […]

Front of a brick building with a Cherry Hospital sign in front

Crippling health workforce shortages mean hospitals can’t admit mental health patients — even if beds are empty

by Rose Hoban February 28, 2023February 27, 2023

The autopsy suites in the new state lab in Raleigh expanded the capacity of the Office of State Medical Examiner. The new facility opened in early 2013.

Workforce shortages in DHHS creating wider problems

by Anne Blythe October 13, 2022October 12, 2022

shows a young woman sitting next to an older woman, she's taking the older woman's blood pressure. Many such workers are needed in long-term care.

Aging

As the long-term care industry shifts, COVID-19 shortchanges NC’s frontline workers

by Thomas Goldsmith February 17, 2021April 12, 2021

A red brick building with metal lettering that says "Broughton Hospital." In front of the building is a red ribbon for the ribbon cutting ceremony.

State unveils long-awaited psychiatric hospital in Morganton

by Liora Engel-Smith August 23, 2019August 22, 2019

man stands on the steps of an old brick house, checking envelopes from the mailbox

Healing Transitions Alumni Makes the Most of His Situation

by Jared Weber August 6, 2018August 6, 2018