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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 […]

Advanced practice nurse in a gown and personal protective equipment checks the ears of a little girl wearing a mask
Posted inHealthcare Workers

Should advanced practice nurses in NC have more independence from physicians?

by Rose Hoban April 12, 2022April 12, 2022
a woman in a hospital bed smiles at a newborn wrapped in a blanket, while a toddler reaches to touch the infant
Posted inHealthcare Workers

The doctor won’t see your newborn now

by Tony Mecia June 19, 2021June 19, 2021
Legislative Building in Raleigh
Posted inGender health

Interactive: What’s the state of abortion in North Carolina?

by Hannah Critchfield June 8, 2021June 7, 2021
handcuffs against a black background, which many county sherrifs departments use for transporting psychiatric patients
Posted inMental Health

Despite pitfalls, counties leave psych patient transport in sheriffs’ hands

by Taylor Knopf March 23, 2021October 19, 2021
A woman with short black hair speaks to a bus full of students with a microphone. She is Dr. Pam Ries of the ECU college of nursing. She heads a rural health program.
Posted inRural Health

From nursing students to rural health pros: ECU program takes aim at NC’s rural provider shortage

by Liora Engel-Smith September 25, 2020January 29, 2021

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