• Donate
  • Subscribe to Newsletter
  • Home
  • About
    • Awards & Recognition
    • Our Mission
    • Our Board
    • Be Our Sponsor!
    • Donors & Supporters
    • Editorial Policy & Terms of Use
    • Comments Policy
    • Our Team
  • Topics
    • Aging
    • Children’s Health
    • Environmental Health
    • Gender health
    • Health Inequities
    • Medicaid
    • Mental Health
    • Oral Health
    • Prison Health
    • Public Health
    • State Health Policy
    • Rural Health
  • Series
    • COVID-19 updates: What’s happening in North Carolina?
    • When kids’ cries for help become crimes
    • Youth Climate Stories
    • Seeking Help and Getting Handcuffed
    • Unequal Treatment: Mental health parity in North Carolina
    • Storm stories – NC Health News works with teens from SE North Carolina to tell their hurricane experiences
    • Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans have tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S. could learn from them.
  • Health Care Half Hour
  • Contact
  • Health Job Listings
  • Newsletter
  • En Español
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
Skip to content
North Carolina Health News

North Carolina Health News

News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.

Donate

Read our Coronavirus Coverage Here

Tag: maternal and child health

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

NC doulas guide new parents through birth and beyond

by Elizabeth Thompson January 12, 2022January 11, 2022

By Elizabeth Thompson When Kira Kimble goes to the hospital to assist a client giving birth, she is charged with everything from keeping her pregnant client informed about the choices they have — whether they want to get an epidural, have a natural birth — to making sure her clients are simply being addressed by […]

A photo of a room at the Chatham Hospital maternity unit. There's a hospital bed and some medical equipment and a sunny window
Posted inGender health

NC’s maternal care system gets a boost

by Liora Engel-Smith September 15, 2020September 14, 2020
Dr. Suzanne Dixon is a woman in a black shirt that's standing in the middle of a group of providers in scrubs. She's tasked with thinking about the future of maternity units and maternity care in the mountain region.
Posted inRural Health

When a rural maternity unit closes, alternatives are hard to come by

by Liora Engel-Smith February 24, 2020February 23, 2020
A map of obstetrical deserts in North Carolina denotes the lack of maternity services in some rural areas in the state.
Posted inRural Health

Rural NC community that lost its maternity services to get a freestanding obstetrics clinic

by Liora Engel-Smith December 20, 2019December 19, 2019
A brick hospital building that houses labor and delivary services that are about to be discontinued.
Posted inRural Health

Mountain hospital ending labor and delivery services

by Carolina Public Press November 25, 2019November 22, 2019
A young woman is hugging her toddler in a pumpkin field. She is Madavia Johnson of Clayton N.C. and her story of how her Medicaid coverage ended before she could get help for her postpartum anxiety makes up the first few paragraphs of the story.
Posted inMedicaid

Medicaid tweak might offer means to improve U.S. maternal health

by Kaiser Health News November 22, 2019November 19, 2019

Posts navigation

1 2 Older posts

Subscribe to our Newsletter

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Latest News

StarMed comes to the rescue with baby formula

StarMed comes to the rescue with baby formula

May 27, 2022May 26, 2022
Lots of buzz about NC Senate Republicans and their Medicaid expansion bill

Lots of buzz about NC Senate Republicans and their Medicaid expansion bill

May 26, 2022May 26, 2022
Woman sues NC state prison system for mistreatment while pregnant

Woman sues NC state prison system for mistreatment while pregnant

May 25, 2022May 24, 2022

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • RSS
© 2022 News. Policy. Trends. North Carolina.. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic