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North Carolina to expand peer-led crisis services in push for more mental health support
April 29, 2024
The state is investing in a wider range of mental health crisis supports, including those run by people with lived experience of mental illness.
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Wilson County deploys overdose reversal kits to combat epidemic of opioid deaths
April 18, 2024
County uses big pharma settlement funds to create a ‘community of first responders,’ hopes to be a model for saving lives.
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Child care providers face difficult choices as funding cliff looms
April 05, 2024
A survey of child care centers released last week shows that without extra pandemic aid, centers expect to lose teachers, close classrooms, raise tuition and fees or a combination of those measures. More than 1,500 child care facilities in North Carolina could close.
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Medical students help rural schoolchildren avoid suspension with mobile physicals
March 11, 2024
Students from East Carolina University provide state-mandated health assessments to kids in southeastern North Carolina counties.
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Crooning for a Cure: The star-studded song that changed NC’s health care landscape
January 09, 2024
Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore and Kay Kyser teamed up 77 years ago to rally support for the state’s Good Health Plan. It included addressing the shortage of physicians that was so severe in 1945, a quarter of babies born in rural counties were delivered without a doctor present.
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Second chances for formerly incarcerated women grow on this farm in Alamance County
December 18, 2023
Benevolence Farm offers housing, employment and other support to women leaving incarceration as they begin again.
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NC pushes back Medicaid unwinding for kids
December 13, 2023
The state also is pursuing waivers to protect children further by keeping them enrolled longer before eligibility reviews, reducing the times children may temporarily lose coverage.
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From creeks to clouds: The invisible invasion of microplastics
December 04, 2023
Plastic pollution may be harming humans and marine life, and could be changing the weather.
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Public payment of dialysis treatment has changed the rural health care marketplace
November 22, 2023
One of the chronically medically underserved populations in rural America, African American residents, on average live closer to dialysis facilities than white residents do.
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New youth psychiatric hospital will have specialized units for substance use, disabilities
November 09, 2023
As emergency rooms fill with children in need of mental health support, UNC Health and the state Department of Health and Human Services open a facility in the town of Butner that aims to serve kids with specialized inpatient mental health treatment.
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Crisis in children’s mental health takes a heavy toll in rural southeastern NC
October 28, 2023
Children are dealing with a mental health crisis that experts say is fueled by bullying, the COVID-19 pandemic, discrimination and other stressors. Rural healthcare centers are struggling to keep up with demand for their services.
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State officials tout ‘once in a lifetime’ investment in North Carolina’s mental health services
October 06, 2023
Between federal COVID relief funds and the $1.4 billion sign-on bonus North Carolina received for expanding Medicaid, state lawmakers were able to make significant investments in mental health services. A portion of the money will pay highly-trained psychiatrists and family practice doctors up to $100,000 to work in rural counties.
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Warmer seas drive more bacterial infections, threatening fishermen, public health
August 16, 2023
Three Vibrio-related deaths along the North Carolina coast in July prompted public health officials to sound the alarm about potential risks.
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Mental health agencies agree to consolidate amid delayed launch of specialized Medicaid plans
August 14, 2023
Merger of local mental health management agencies the Sandhills Center and Eastpointe would create second-largest organization of its kind in NC.
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Delayed testing, limited access to care, and lack of sexual health literacy contribute to rise in syphilis cases in newborns, health officials say
July 31, 2023
While not seen in the same high numbers as other STIs, such as chlamydia and gonorrhea, syphilis more often leads to severe health issues or death when passed on to a fetus.
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