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Jail suicides are on the rise in North Carolina

ICE transfers — and NC jail partnerships — have continued amid the pandemic

July 24, 2020 by Hannah Critchfield Leave a Comment

ICE transfers — and NC jail partnerships — have continued amid the pandemic - North Carolina Health News

Advocates worry it will increase North Carolina immigrants' risk of contracting COVID-19.

By Hannah Critchfield The call came after a period of relative silence. “ICE is at my door,” the man told Stefania Arteaga, immigrants’ rights organizer at the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina. “They’ve been to six other houses in my neighborhood already,” the man said. On that day in May, Arteaga was volunteering […]

shows a building entrance to Randolph Health facility. The general assembly threw a lifeline to the financially strugglig Randolph hospital this week.

Legislature comes and goes, leaves most health care priorities unfinished

November 1, 2019 by Rose Hoban

Legislature comes and goes, leaves most health care priorities unfinished - North Carolina Health News

One significant bill did get done, which will allows for a bailout of Randolph hospital in Asheboro.

By Rose Hoban County and health officials in Asheboro will likely breathe a sigh of relief this weekend as a long-desired bill to help the county hospital, which has been in financial trouble in recent years, passed both chambers of the General Assembly and is headed to Gov. Roy Cooper for his signature. Language from […]

glass of water to signify contaminated drinking water. There's little being done about 1,4 dioxane in the Cape Fear River Basin

Little progress being made in the fight against 1,4 dioxane

October 24, 2019 by Greg Barnes

Little progress being made in the fight against 1,4 dioxane - North Carolina Health News

At least four years after high concentrations of 1,4 dioxane were discovered in the Cape Fear River basin, contamination persists and little apparently is being done to stop it.

By Greg Barnes Five years ago, N.C. State researcher Detlef Knappe and his graduate students set out to measure the probable carcinogen 1,4 dioxane in the Cape Fear River basin as part of a study for the state Department of Environmental Quality. For two years, Knappe and his students took samples in the Haw and […]

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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, […]

Legislators offer lifeline to rural hospitals drowning in debt

June 27, 2019 by Taylor Knopf

Legislators offer lifeline to rural hospitals drowning in debt - North Carolina Health News

Randolph County hospital in Asheboro would likely be the first beneficiary of a new rural health care loan program.

By Taylor Knopf and Rose Hoban There’s a hospital in the middle of the state that’s about to go under, and it has a lot of people concerned. Some of them are at the General Assembly, where the Senate leader introduced a bill late in this session to establish a state-funded loan program for struggling […]

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Feds identify more of NC’s most troubled nursing homes

June 17, 2019 by Thomas Goldsmith

Feds identify more of NC’s most troubled nursing homes - North Carolina Health News

Two U.S. senators pushed to have a confidential list of problematic nursing homes released to the public. Eight facilities in North Carolina face increased scrutiny as a result.

By Thomas Goldsmith In January, an 89-year-old woman who lived in a Lillington nursing home went into the hospital for treatment of a large, foul-smelling necrotic bed sore with an underlying infection. It had been almost four weeks since staff first made written notice of the spot as a much less severe pressure sore. Grim […]

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Bill to help homeless kids get health care passes House

May 9, 2019 by Rose Hoban

Bill to help homeless kids get health care passes House - North Carolina Health News

Now the state Senate will consider a bill to allow homeless kids to access physical exams, dental care, mental health services and vision care.

By Rose Hoban When Michael Absher was a senior in his Hendersonville high school he lived in a homeless shelter. Absher, now 28, stayed there for about a year after his mom had mental health issues and his grandmother, with whom he had been living, died. “It was a really stressful time,” he said during […]

Millie Veasey stands in the doorway of her home, a smiling man in the doorway looks in. Some programs such as these are not getting as much support because of the budget standoff.

Medicare Advantage to Pay For Community-Based Help

August 30, 2018 by Thomas Goldsmith

Medicare Advantage to Pay For Community-Based Help - North Carolina Health News

Medicare is expanding the types of aid to older people that will qualify for reimbursement — beyond strictly medical services.

By Thomas Goldsmith At a senior center in Asheboro, people dealing with diabetes can learn ways to manage the condition — from healthy eating to stress management — and have Medicare foot the bill. These diabetes self-management classes, each two and a half hours, require significant work on the part of attendees, said Laura Plunkett, […]

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Families Still Pushing for Access to Autism Therapies

July 30, 2018 by Sarah Ovaska

Families Still Pushing for Access to Autism Therapies - North Carolina Health News

Provider shortages and Medicaid delays preventing many from enrolling in therapies proven to help those with autism. After NC Health News investigated, however, some children started getting the treatments.

By Sarah Ovaska-Few When Adison Cole boarded a school bus recently and turned to say “bye-bye,” her grandmother felt tears welling up in her eyes. Adison, a Moore County girl with autism, has essentially been nonverbal for her entire 12 years of life and long struggled to cope with her surroundings. She’s barely spoken in […]

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