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Tag: John Locke Foundation

Posted inPublic Health

The key to COVID-19 communication? Keep it simple.

by Taylor Knopf August 21, 2020January 29, 2021

By Taylor Knopf Stopped on the street, someone asked state health and human services secretary Mandy Cohen, “Are you the ‘three Ws’ lady?” “Yes I am,” she responded. The memory makes Cohen chuckle. More importantly, she said, the slogan is getting into people’s heads. As North Carolina slowly reopens, Cohen and public health officials have […]

A skilled nursing facility sign is in the foreground and a building is in the background. The facility, A PruittHealth skilled-nursing facility for veterans in Orange County, is dealing with an outbreak of COVID-19, and has a history of poor staffing.
Posted inAging

Short staffing an issue at NC nursing homes marked by COVID-19 outbreaks

by Thomas Goldsmith April 20, 2020April 28, 2020
Posted inOral Health

Dental therapy might not be what you think, but is it for North Carolina?

by Anne Blythe June 3, 2019November 13, 2019
Rep. Chuck McGrady checks his notes as he makes the argument on the House floor for the Raise the Age bill.
Posted inChildren's Health

North Carolina House Passes “Raise the Age” Bill With Broad Support

by Taylor Knopf May 18, 2017May 17, 2017
man reaches otu to touch a hog that's in a crowded pen.
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Legislators Retreat from Active CAFO Lawsuit Attack

by Catherine Clabby April 26, 2017April 26, 2017
Wake Forest U. freshman Adam Tomasi, 18, asked about some seeming contradictions in the role of the free market in Medicaid reform. Behind him, Greensboro resident Heather Stinson, asked whether providers had been consulted in the reform and expansion planning. Stinson's husband is a family physician who left general practice, in part, because of low Medicaid reimbursements.
Posted inMedicaid

Medicaid Expansion? Probably Not This Year, Panel Concludes

by Editor January 26, 2016April 7, 2021

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