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A newborn is visible and in the background, there's a hospital bed with the mom
Posted inGender health

Filling rural NC’s maternal health care desert

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven May 11, 2022May 11, 2022

By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Eight women — three OB-GYNs, three nurse midwives, one gynecologist and one nurse practitioner — comprise the maternity unit at Mission Hospital McDowell. In the 18-county region that makes up western North Carolina, the McDowell County facility is one of just eight hospitals where someone can deliver a baby. To fill the […]

An African American mother and her baby bond together as an illustration of maternal health and maternal and child health.
Posted inGender health

Black doulas in NC fight high maternal and infant mortality rate by building relationship, community

by Elizabeth Thompson May 3, 2022May 3, 2022
a sign for the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) in Asheville
Posted inHealthcare Workers

NC will soon have its first addiction psychiatry training program

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven March 15, 2022March 14, 2022
Two bottles of single dose naloxone
Posted inSubstance Use

Contradictory state laws aimed at stopping drug overdoses aren’t applied equally

by Melba Newsome January 6, 2022January 6, 2022
Two students work with a patient in a dental clinic
Posted inOral Health

Even before coronavirus, almost half of adults in rural areas went without dental care

by Liora Engel-Smith July 20, 2021December 8, 2021
shows a reel of fiberoptic cable being pulled behind a tractor as the cable is being laid in the country side
Posted inRural Health

In North Carolina’s mountains, broadband isn’t a given

by Liora Engel-Smith July 7, 2021August 18, 2021

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