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NC Health News
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Though HCA made improvements to the western North Carolina health care system, according to the Wake Forest University report, many were already planned or required by then-Attorney General Josh Stein as part of the terms of the sale. [I]t by Andrew R.
NC Health News
DECEMBER 12, 2024
By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press When was the last time you knew the full cost of a medical procedure before going under? Hospital price transparency has been enforced by the federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services since 2021, but whether the law is functioning as intended is a topic of heated debate.
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NC Health News
DECEMBER 21, 2024
by Lucas Thomae and Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press State oversight of nursing homes received a scathing performance audit, released on Wednesday. The DHHS Division of Health Service Regulations role is to routinely inspect those nursing homes and investigate complaints involving them. 1, 2019, through Dec.
Public Health Law Center
DECEMBER 15, 2021
E-Cigarette Regulations - 50 State Review This snapshot of U.S. e-cigarette regulations is based on a survey of current state statutes in the 50 states, Washington, D.C., Note: this is a summary of state laws; cities, counties, and Tribes may have adopted other e-cigarette measures. and five U.S.
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The Health Care Blog
AUGUST 9, 2022
Required staffing ratios and other regulations make child care exceedingly expensive for parents. How about this: a 2021 survey found that 90% of hospital nurses are considering leaving in the next year. history, race, racism, gender and sexual orientation, as well as LGBTQ issues. nurses are women. . Well, we’re in 2022, and Ms.
Frontiers
MARCH 24, 2023
Ecosystem health, and by extension human health, have been treated as externalities for too long. The true costs of degrading public waters are often borne by individuals and communities who did not decide to pollute them and who do not benefit from their degradation.
Sheffield DPH
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Currently that isn’t in the interests of public health IMO in many areas. If we had settled for pragmatism in say smoking we may still have voluntary self reg on smoking in public places. This needs to be explained to the public and debated in public. Who is doing the critical policy analysis of this.
NC Health News
MARCH 24, 2025
Kristin Goforth and Lauren Cox, twin sisters aged 49, moved their father into a Piedmont Triad-area assisted living facility on March 13, 2021. Rick Goforth, then 75, was in good health; he was an avid walker who enjoyed being outside. Eventually, the state fined the facility $19,000. Cox called that a slap on the wrist.
Smart Data Collective
MAY 27, 2021
Industry-wide regulations in web scraping and other forms of automated data collection are practically non-existent and we probably shouldn’t expect any in the near future. However, there are a sufficient number of other pointers that can help us stay on the right side of the law and ethics. Non-)Public data.
Environmental Health News
MARCH 27, 2025
Santoyo is a community organizer at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, one of the 200 coalition partners that, for over a decade, has pushed California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to create a statewide notification system to let people know when potentially dangerous pesticides will be applied near them.
Mercola
JANUARY 24, 2025
1 This statistic highlights the pervasive impact of IMFs on public health. Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Remain a Significant Public Health Crisis Recent data reveals alarming trends: from January 2021 to June 2024, overdose deaths with IMFs detected remained consistently high at approximately 70% to 80% nationwide, according to the U.S.
The Health Care Blog
MARCH 21, 2022
Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. As a consequence, the Biden administration has targeted the health care industry for enhanced and more vigilant anti-trust enforcement. By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON. Forty years later, there were 700 fewer facilities generating about $1.2
NC Health News
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Department of Health and Human Services pointed to a lack of resources and inadequate staff hampering their ability to keep up with complaints. But taxpayer money, such as the federal health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid, shouldnt be used to reimburse facilities where people arent taken care of, she said.
Environmental Health News
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
The Appalachian Regional Hydrogen Hub is one of seven proposed, federally funded networks of this type of infrastructure announced a year ago — an initiative born from the Biden administration’s 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Department of Energy and the companies involved have not been transparent,” Coptis said.
Environmental Health News
DECEMBER 5, 2024
For the fourth year in a row, Kansas lawmakers tried to pass a law that would block local plastic bans. As scientists and the public have learned more about the dangers of micro- and nanoplastics, local governments have passed laws restricting single-use plastics. Who is behind the laws blocking plastic bans?
NC Health News
APRIL 26, 2025
By Andrew Jones Asheville Watchdog Since 2021, Mission Hospital has released at least 111 bodies to funeral homes before a legally required medical examiners review, according to a list of issues related to the hospitals handling of deaths compiled by Buncombe County medical examiners and obtained by Asheville Watchdog.
Big Cities Health Coalition
OCTOBER 24, 2024
The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), representing the leaders of health departments serving nearly 61 million Americans, calls on the incoming Administration and Congress to enhance support for local public health systems.
NC Health News
MARCH 30, 2025
Prior to 2021, two state agencies had effectively carried out that task. The money was supposed to be allocated by June 2023, but in April of that year the Legislature revised the law to remove that deadline. Staffers the states crisis centers told ProPublica that payments were delayed for months.
HEALTHBEAT
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Georgia’s open meetings law requires boards and other agencies to hold regular meetings but also allows them to cancel and postpone them. Advocates of public health and open government say failing to meet regularly is a bad practice.
NC Health News
APRIL 12, 2025
By Rachana Pradhan KFF Health News Mass firings at the FDA have decimated divisions tasked with releasing public records generated by the agencys regulatory activities in sectors including tobacco, food, medical devices, and veterinary medicine. follow our coverage of health policy RFK Jr.s Kennedy Jr.s He declined to elaborate.
Environmental Health News
MARCH 26, 2025
Santoyo is a community organizer at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, one of the 200 coalition partners that, for over a decade, has pushed California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to create a statewide notification system to let people know when potentially dangerous pesticides will be applied near them.
KFF Health News
MARCH 10, 2025
Shea, one of 1,310 people who responded to a poll the health policy research group KFF conducted on health care priorities, said he assumes the FDA is making sure the ingredients are safe. KFF Health News asked nine of the largest food manufacturers The Coca-Cola Co., In many cases, it is not. Kennedy Jr.,
NC Health News
APRIL 22, 2025
Key Republican senators are pushing changes that would shift the board selection power to legislators, the governor and state labor commissioner, contending the new process will make the dental board more accountable to the public. Election vs. selection Republican state Sens. That was the gist of the argument 10 years ago when the U.S.
HEALTHBEAT
MARCH 13, 2025
Shea, one of 1,310 people who responded to a poll the health policy research group KFF conducted on health care priorities, said he assumes the FDA is making sure the ingredients are safe. KFF Health News asked nine of the largest food manufacturers The Coca-Cola Co., In many cases, it is not. Kennedy Jr.,
KFF Health News
OCTOBER 17, 2024
KFF Health News and KCUR are following the stories of people injured during the Feb. Cabrera’s search to make meaning out of what happened has led her to work with a frustrated local lawmaker seeking new gun laws — something akin to impossible given Missouri state law, which prohibits nearly any local restrictions on firearms.
Association of Health Care Journalists
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Senate probe says private equity puts profits over patients A bipartisan Senate Budget Committee report details the business practices of two firms: Apollo Global Management, owner of rural hospital chain Lifepoint Healthcare, and Leonard Green & Partners (owner of Aspen Dental ), which owned Prospect Medical Holdings from 2010 until 2021.
KFF Health News
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
health official, Robert F. said the Trump administration would liberate Americans from the FDA’s “aggressive suppression” of vitamins, dietary supplements, and other substances ending the federal agency’s “war on public health,” as he put it. Last fall, before being named the senior U.S.
KFF Health News
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors, filed a federal lawsuit last month against California officials to strike down a state law allowing local public health officials to inspect immigration detention facilities. District Court for the Eastern District of California.
HEALTHBEAT
JANUARY 17, 2025
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. For years, the federal government has steered clear of regulating junk food, fast food, and ultra-processed food. Nutrition and health leaders are optimistic that a reckoning is already underway. Now attitudes are changing. Kennedy Jr.,
Environmental Health News
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
What the inspectors captured confirmed the worst fears of Yukons residents, who have blamed the landfill for serious health impacts and called on regulators to intervene for years. RCRA is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which regulates hazardous waste. Our mission is to protect human health and the environment.
HEALTHBEAT
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors, filed a federal lawsuit last month against California officials to strike down a state law allowing local public health officials to inspect immigration detention facilities.
Environmental Health News
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Later, after reading the DOE's public summary of the event, she felt frustrated. “I They said details of the projects remain hazy, public input is only planned after industry partners have received millions of dollars in public funding, and communities feel that they have no say in the decision-making.
KFF Health News
APRIL 10, 2025
Mass firings at the FDA have decimated divisions tasked with releasing public records generated by the agency’s regulatory activities in sectors including tobacco, food, medical devices, and veterinary medicine. KFF Health News agreed not to name the workers because they are not authorized to speak to the press and fear retaliation.
Environmental Health News
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The Max Environmental Technologies landfill has been out of compliance with requirements set under the Clean Water Act for most of the past three years and with the federal hazardous waste law, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, known as RCRA for short, since July 2023. times higher than upstream. I wouldnt eat the fish.
KFF Health News
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Many scientists at the federal health agencies await the second Donald Trump administration with dread as well as uncertainty over how the president-elect will reconcile starkly different philosophies among the leaders of his team. to “go wild” on medicines, food, and health. public health. . public health.
KFF Health News
APRIL 9, 2025
The Greene County Health System, with only three doctors, has no intensive care unit or surgical services. High-speed broadband is the new backbone of America’s health care system, which depends on electronic health records, high-tech wireless equipment, and telehealth access. “I feel better,” Walker said.
KFF Health News
JANUARY 28, 2025
an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, as secretary of Health and Human Sciences. trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system. For decades , Kennedy has advocated for health-related ideas that are scientifically disproven or controversial. Kennedy Jr.,
KFF Health News
OCTOBER 28, 2024
. “Employee suffers from heat exhaustion while doing landscaping,” said an investigation into the incident from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. But health policy and occupational health researchers say that worker deaths are not inevitable. 30, when the public comment period closes.
NC Health News
DECEMBER 31, 2024
As we look back on the year that was, some of the most-read NC Health News stories included articles about Helenes effects, from its upheaval of municipal water systems to the use of cadaver dogs and other issues that arose during the aftermath of the havoc generated by the storm. Now their board will be reconfigured.
HEALTHBEAT
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Many scientists at the federal health agencies await the second Donald Trump administration with dread as well as uncertainty over how the president-elect will reconcile starkly different philosophies among the leaders of his team.
The Hill
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Reproductive health advocates expect President-elect Trump to reinstate a rule that weakened the country's sole federally funded family planning program during his first term once he returns to office next year. million low-income or uninsured Americans, according to health policy research nonprofit KFF. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
HEALTHBEAT
JANUARY 28, 2025
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, as secretary of Health and Human Sciences. trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system. trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system.
KFF Health News
MARCH 7, 2025
A decorated doctor and a brash critic of many of his medical colleagues, Makary drew Trump’s attention during the pandemic with frequent appearances on Fox News shows such as “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” in which he excoriated public health officials over their handling of covid.
NC Health News
JANUARY 2, 2025
Its been little over a year since the measure took effect, and we now have a clearer picture of what it accomplished: more than 600,000 low-income North Carolinians received health insurance through expansion, surpassing in just 12 months a milestone the state estimated would take at least two years to reach.
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