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Abandoned child's toy, child welfare failure. Many foster children do not have any toys.

Children's Health

UNC study: States that expanded access to food benefits saw decreases in child neglect, abuse cases

by Jennifer Fernandez February 1, 2023January 31, 2023

A turquoise bus with the words "Women's Care: Drive to Thrive" painted on the side in white sits in a parking lot.

Health Inequities

Taking reproductive care on the road

by Charlotte Ledger January 23, 2023January 24, 2023

shows the back of a wheelchair, with an old and wizened hand on the arm of the chair

Aging

NC’s low performing nursing homes to get more federal scrutiny

by Thomas Goldsmith November 2, 2022November 1, 2022

Older white man in suit gestures to a younger white man sitting in a chair behind him at a townhall discussion about mental helath care and the rising mental health crisis numbers

Big changes are needed to turn the tide of North Carolina’s mental health crisis, health leaders say

by Taylor Knopf August 23, 2022January 26, 2026

many stick figure people in front of a real hospital emergency patient registration sign, they represent all the people in mental health crisis who sit in the emergency department waiting for a psychiatric bed

New mental health data show ‘unsustainable’ burden on NC hospitals

by Taylor Knopf August 22, 2022December 23, 2024

talking to a psychiatrist over the web while in the emergency department, telehealth

Has telehealth democratized care? It’s complicated.

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven July 19, 2022July 19, 2022