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NC moves to end police involvement in transporting mental health patients

NC Health News

By Taylor Knopf When someone is having a mental health crisis whether theyre thinking about suicide, acting erratically or experiencing hallucinations they frequently end up in a hospital emergency department, mostly because there are few places for them to go. Its a practice that many patients find traumatizing.

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As more mental health crisis centers open across the state, here’s what you need to know

NC Health News

By Taylor Knopf Last month, the state health department announced $13 million in funding to open four new community mental health crisis facilities in Lenoir, New Hanover and Pitt counties by the end of the year. Screenshot of tele-townhall held by the NC Department of Health and Human Services on Jan.

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NC Senate budget plan filled with health care policy initiatives

NC Health News

By Grace Vitaglione and Rose Hoban The North Carolina Senates proposed budget for the next two fiscal years is packed with policy around new health care initiatives, including repealing North Carolinas hospital capacity regulation laws, trimming vacant state job openings and increasing rates for child care subsidies. billion in the next.

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Shell’s petrochemical plant in Pennsylvania still hasn’t spurred economic development: Report

Environmental Health News

This report updates two similar analyses published by the same group in 2021 and 2023, with all three reports relying on data from government agencies including the U.S. These pollutants are linked to health effects including asthma, heart disease, mental health symptoms, poor birth outcomes, endocrine disruption and cancer.

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Exciting news for elementary school kids: Guaranteed recess!

Public Health Insider

Thanks to a new law signed in 2023 by the Governor, all students in grades K-5 are now guaranteed recess to support their physical and mental health. appeared first on PUBLIC HEALTH INSIDER. The post Exciting news for elementary school kids: Guaranteed recess!

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NPHW 2024: How Global Health Experience Shaped CSTE AEF Fellow Hannah Gorman’s Journey to Epidemiology

CSTE

From Ethiopia to New York City to Washington State, AEF fellow Hannah Gorman is always focused on the health of the neighborhood shes currently in. Gorman uses these same techniques daily as a CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellow (AEF) at the Washington State Department of Health. Todays NPHW daily theme is Healthy Neighborhoods.

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Unraveling an oral health mystery leads to rare autoimmune diagnosis

NC Health News

It was in the spring of 2023, and the Virginia resident was sipping a Chick-fil-A lemonade one morning. “My mouth burst into blisters everywhere,” Letsky-Anderson told NC Health News in a recent phone interview. She led a healthful, mindful lifestyle. I couldn’t eat any solid food at all.