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Coronavirus Today – May 21 – Rare COVID-related child illness; Tyson plant and Forsyth case jump; pause on NC jury trials

May 21, 2020 by Editor Leave a Comment

Coronavirus Today – May 21 – Rare COVID-related child illness; Tyson plant and Forsyth case jump; pause on NC jury trials - North Carolina Health News

North Carolina is moving cautiously into a new reopening phase as COVID-19 cases increase. Forsyth County has seen a rapid increase in cases.

By North Carolina Health News staff NC reports first case of rare COVID-related illness in children North Carolina reported its first case of a rare multisystem inflammatory disease afflicting children who either have COVID-19 infection or appeared to have recently recovered from an infection. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human […]

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Coronavirus Today – May 19 – Heated Lincoln County debate; nod to older North Carolinians; Avery County gets first COVID case

May 19, 2020 by Editor 1 Comment

Coronavirus Today – May 19 – Heated Lincoln County debate; nod to older North Carolinians; Avery County gets first COVID case - North Carolina Health News

Pressures mount to reopen restaurants, salons and churches as governor contemplates moving to the next phase.

By North Carolina Health News staff Defiance in Lincoln County A Lincoln County restaurant owner who also is a member of the county board of commissioners opened his restaurant in Vale on Monday in defiance of the governor’s statewide stay-at-home order. Carrol Dean Mitchem was cited by Sheriff Bill Beam for violating Gov. Roy Cooper’s […]

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Coronavirus Today – May 12 – Pandemic politics; NC manufacturers help; mental health awareness

May 12, 2020 by Editor Leave a Comment

Coronavirus Today – May 12 – Pandemic politics; NC manufacturers help; mental health awareness - North Carolina Health News

Political divides are emerging again during the pandemic slightly more than a week after Republicans and Democrats reached consensus on a relief package.

By North Carolina Health News staff ‘Pandemics cannot be partisan’ Eight days have passed since Republican leaders at the helm of the General Assembly stood side-by-side with Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, to show that the two parties could come together in consensus to support a $1.5 billion pandemic relief package. The harmony was short-lived. […]

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For migrant workers in NC, coronavirus may be hard to avoid

March 13, 2020 by Liora Engel-Smith

For migrant workers in NC, coronavirus may be hard to avoid - North Carolina Health News

An outbreak at a farm could incapacitate large numbers of migrant workers who often live on farms in close quarters during growing season.

By Liora Engel-Smith As the growing season ramps up in North Carolina, agencies that care for and about migrant and seasonal farmworkers are hastily preparing to screen and educate them about coronavirus. Migrant workers aren’t especially susceptible to coronavirus, but their living conditions during the growing season — trailers and rooms that house many workers […]

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In Winston-Salem, a community-first approach to mental illness

November 6, 2019 by Yen Duong

In Winston-Salem, a community-first approach to mental illness - North Carolina Health News

Advocates, community members and government officials met at a nonprofit in Winston-Salem to promote a program which aims to integrate mentally ill people into their local communities.

By Yen Duong “Lord, please connect me to the people and the resources that is going to help me to become all that you have created me to be.” Around 2 a.m. on April 7, 2008, Pam Goodine called out a prayer to overcome her drug addictions, which she had been unable to do through […]

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

New dollars target opioid misuse, workforce revitalization in WNC

September 11, 2019 by Liora Engel-Smith

New dollars target opioid misuse, workforce revitalization in WNC - North Carolina Health News

Twenty-nine western North Carolina counties could benefit from a new Appalachian Regional Commission initiative that will invest in workforce training and treatment options for people with addiction.

By Liora Engel-Smith Targeting some of the epicenters of the national opioid epidemic, the Appalachian Regional Commission announced a plan to revitalize the workforce in communities ravaged by addiction. The agency, whose mandate is to promote economic prosperity in 420 counties in 13 states, including North Carolina, outlined a plan to bolster and link programs […]

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Budget impasse delays Initial Nov. 1 rollout of Medicaid managed care

September 4, 2019 by Sarah Ovaska

Budget impasse delays Initial Nov. 1 rollout of Medicaid managed care - North Carolina Health News

Instead of one quarter of the state program going live this fall, the entire state will make the transition to managed care in Feb. 2020

By Sarah Ovaska-Few and Rose Hoban The standoff between North Carolina’s state government power brokers over the state budget and Medicaid expansion has claimed a victim: the planned roll-out this fall of Medicaid managed care. N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Sec. Mandy Cohen announced Tuesday morning she was pushing back the Nov. 1 […]

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Forty-one N.C. counties classified as “high risk” in new opioid study

July 23, 2019 by Yen Duong

Forty-one N.C. counties classified as “high risk” in new opioid study - North Carolina Health News

In a national study, researchers classified 41 North Carolina counties as “opioid high-risk” with few providers of medication-assisted treatment and many opioid-related deaths.

By Yen Duong While conversations about the national opioid epidemic often focus on hardest-hit states such as Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, few people have analyzed county-by-county trends, where those state’s policies can make a difference. But a new study, published last month in an open-access version of the Journal of the American Medical Association, […]

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Lawmakers strong-arm over budget, Medicaid expansion, but come up empty-handed

July 10, 2019 by Rose Hoban

Lawmakers strong-arm over budget, Medicaid expansion, but come up empty-handed - North Carolina Health News

The two issues became increasingly intertwined at the legislature, where movement on one issue can’t come without movement on the other.

By Rose Hoban After years of trying, a group of moderate Republicans in the state House of Representatives finally held a committee hearing on expanding the state’s Medicaid program to cover about a half million additional low-income residents. In a lopsided 25-6 vote both Republicans and Democrats moved the NC Health Care for Working Families […]

2019 Health & Human Services Budget – House & Senate

June 24, 2019 by Rose Hoban

2019 Health & Human Services Budget – House & Senate - North Carolina Health News

Just in time for the conference committee budget, here are how the Senate and the House of Representatives each proposed to spend on health and human services.

By Rose Hoban After 2018’s unusual budget process this year’s budget has unfolded in a more “traditional” way. The House unveiled it’s proposal to spend $5.569 billion on health and human services priorities in early May. The Senate finished it’s work on the budget in early June, asking for a total appropriation of $5.552 billion […]

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