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shows a group of gowned, masked health care professionals moving a man with tattoos on his shoulders onto a gurney. These same professionals have been on the receiving end of violence by patients.

Healthcare Workers

Cursed at. Shoved. Punched. Bitten. Violence against doctors and nurses is rising. A new N.C. law aims to help protect them.

by Michelle Crouch and Charlotte Ledger November 6, 2023May 12, 2024

map showing arrangement of local mental health managed care organizations in North Carolina as of 2023. Now that some entities are merged, the state health department is conducting audits of the now-defunct organizations.

NC lawmakers give authority over the state’s mental health care system to DHHS secretary and hope for better outcomes

by Taylor Knopf October 18, 2023October 18, 2023

A blue sign indicating a women's prison in front of a brick wall. The sign reads: NC Correctional Institution for Women/ Inmate Receiving. It's a facility that lacks air-conditioning

In this heat wave, many NC inmates still live in prison buildings without air-conditioning

by Anne Blythe July 26, 2023July 25, 2023

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

A series of closed tan doors in a jail housing unit

Poorly resourced, insufficient oversight system allows violations, dangerous conditions in NC jails

by Rachel Crumpler January 13, 2023January 12, 2023

Small grassy area with green block-out fencing

New lawsuit accuses DHHS of ‘warehousing’ NC children with disabilities in foster care

by Anne Blythe December 8, 2022September 8, 2024