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Providers, health directors push back on complaints of slow vaccine rollout

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Providers, health directors push back on complaints of slow vaccine rollout - North Carolina Health News

Some local health officials say vaccine administration would have started faster if there had been more certainty and funding for their efforts.

By Rose Hoban It’s hard to tell that the mass vaccination clinic set up by UNC Health was only a few days old. There was no crush of patients at the door. Instead, a steady stream of gray-haired people, some on canes, walkers or in wheelchairs, arrived at the Friday Center on the campus of […]

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Coronavirus Today – Jan 12 – Cooper calls out “dangerous rhetoric;” Lawmakers criticize vaccine rollout; Large vaccine events coming

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Coronavirus Today – Jan 12 – Cooper calls out “dangerous rhetoric;” Lawmakers criticize vaccine rollout; Large vaccine events coming - North Carolina Health News

NC lawmakers grill Mandy Cohen, DHHS secretary, about slower than expected COVID vaccine administration, on a day when Gov. Cooper drew parallels between political violence and coronavirus denial.

By Anne Blythe Gov. Roy Cooper took time on Tuesday to draw parallels between what led to the assault on the nation’s Capitol almost a week ago and the continued effort by some to downplay the coronavirus pandemic and efforts to prevent and slow the spread of COVID-19. It comes at a time when the […]

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Duke-UNC basketball rivalry has lessons for Medicaid transformation

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Duke-UNC basketball rivalry has lessons for Medicaid transformation - North Carolina Health News

NC lawmakers get a bit of locker room talk with their latest Medicaid transformation update.

By Anne Blythe Whether you believe that politics has become a blood sport or sports have become too political, it’s hard to dispute the long-standing comparisons between the two. So on Tuesday, when key North Carolina lawmakers came together to talk about the state Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to put an indefinite […]

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What stories grabbed you in 2019? NC Health News most-read stories of the year

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What stories grabbed you in 2019? NC Health News most-read stories of the year - North Carolina Health News

What piqued your interest this year? We review which stories grabbed peoples' attention, got passed around and shared widely.

By NC Health News Staff Lessons from Abroad: How Europeans tackled opioid addiction and what the U.S. could learn from them. For years, NC Health News has reported on the drug-related deaths, diseases and losses that have resulted from the opioid crisis. Life expectancy in the United States has dropped for two years in a […]

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House budget override narrows path to Medicaid expansion

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House budget override narrows path to Medicaid expansion - North Carolina Health News

The path for North Carolina to extend health insurance benefits to low-income workers was always rough, but events at the legislature Wednesday made the path rockier.

By Rose Hoban In a dramatic turn of events early Wednesday morning, House Republicans successfully held a vote to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the state budget when few Democrats were in the chamber to vote against the measure. (See box.) The vote means now the budget override moves to the Senate chamber, where […]

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Legislative funding proposal needed to facilitate Medicaid changeover

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Legislative funding proposal needed to facilitate Medicaid changeover - North Carolina Health News

In order for Medicaid to shift to managed care later this year, the General Assembly needs to pass legislation and fund it. But the proposal contains a poison pill for the Department of Health and Human Services.

By Rose Hoban For the past eight weeks, Gov. Roy Cooper and the General Assembly have been locked in a budget stalemate largely over the governor’s desire to expand the Medicaid program to cover an estimated additional half million people, while the Republican majority in the legislature have staunchly refused to move on the question. […]

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North Carolina continues to slow creation of beds for dementia patients

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North Carolina continues to slow creation of beds for dementia patients - North Carolina Health News

A reader wrote to NC Health News after noticing the ongoing moratorium on new beds in Alzheimer's special care units in the 2019 legislative budgets. What’s the rationale behind the moratorium, and what does it mean?

By Emily Davis North Carolina is greying, and with it, more people are predicted to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, approximately 170,000 people lived with Alzheimer’s disease in North Carolina in 2018. This statistic is projected to increase by 23.5 percent in 2025, to a total of […]

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Nursing students ready to go to rural NC, but need more autonomy

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Nursing students ready to go to rural NC, but need more autonomy - North Carolina Health News

This year’s nursing advocacy day at the General Assembly was a display of the number and breadth of nursing practice in North Carolina.

By Taylor Knopf A sea of white coats descended on the state capital Wednesday as more than a thousand nursing students from around the state came to push lawmakers on some of the biggest health care issues of this legislative work session. The main talking points during the N.C. Nurses Association’s “2019 Nurses Day at […]

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Mental health providers, others ask for delay to electronic health record requirement

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Mental health providers, others ask for delay to electronic health record requirement - North Carolina Health News

June 1 is the date for many psychiatrists, counselors, drug treatment centers and others to be hooked up to the state’s health information exchange.

By Rose Hoban As North Carolina quickly moves toward transforming Medicaid from a state-paid system to one run by managed care companies, lawmakers have been pushing providers to get their health records into electronic form. Now, as deadlines loom, some of those providers are pushing back. While most hospital systems and large clinics and physician […]

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