NC Health News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

By Michelle Crouch Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger Atrium Health received a $45 million sales tax refund from North Carolina in 2023 and 2024, hitting a statutory limit allowed by the state for nonprofits, tax records reviewed by The Charlotte Ledger/NC Health News show. And that may not even be the full amount.

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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.

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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

By MIKE MAGEE As 2025 kicks off, its wise to pause, and gather our thoughts as a nation. As Stanford Professor of Law, Lawrence M. Friedman, wrote in A History of American Law , One hundred and sixty-nine years went by between Jamestown and the Declaration of Independence. Historians suggest this will take time.

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NC Health News

APRIL 26, 2025

Michelle Aurelius wrote Mission a letter that flagged concerns about unreported bodies, cited state law, and offered training for hospital staff. Years later, bodies continue to leave the hospital without legally required examination, including six in 2025. It is unclear whether the letter was sent.

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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.

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NC Health News

MARCH 22, 2025

By Cristina Bolling Charlotte Ledger For years leading up to 2023, the financial situation at the Aldersgate retirement community in east Charlotte was quietly deteriorating, and neither state regulators nor residents grasped the magnitude of what was happening. Beef up what goes into the disclosure statements that the public can view.

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NC Health News

MARCH 30, 2025

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. The executive director told ProPublica that as of March 2025 the group had helped about two dozen victims.) Staffers the states crisis centers told ProPublica that payments were delayed for months.

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HEALTHBEAT

MARCH 8, 2025

The Georgia General Assembly this week took a major step toward creating a certification program for the states community health workers, who work with hospitals and nonprofits to help people navigate the health care system and find needed resources. Its going to be very beneficial for maternal care and even our mental health.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Each state has the authority to create its laws and regulations around vaccination, including for school attendance and employment requirements for healthcare workers, public health interventions (like during a pandemic), and medical and non-medical exemptions.

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NC Health News

MARCH 28, 2025

There were dozens of health care bills filed and considered this week; NC Health News will run down a handful of them. Among them are proposals to codify the right to contraception and in-vitro fertilization , ban conversion therapy , eliminate sales tax on menstrual products and increase regulation of crisis pregnancy centers.

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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

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NC Health News

JANUARY 27, 2025

By Rose Hoban Medical and biomedical researchers across North Carolina are used to pondering some of the most vexing questions in health and biology, but a directive issued last week by President Donald Trump left many without answers when it came to the future of their life-saving and life-enhancing research projects. Mike Walden, an N.C.

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NC Health News

MARCH 26, 2025

Five decades have passed since the initial anti-litter campaigns of the early 1970s, and since then, researchers have learned that not only is litter an eyesore, but some types of it pose health risks to humans and wildlife. Mounting research shows that plastic pollution is not just an environmental issue but a growing health concern.

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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.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Exposure to PFAS, a group of thousands of compounds, has been linked to health problems including cancer, decreased response to vaccines, and low birth weight, according to a federally funded report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Not long after she moved, Valle started feeling sick. California Gov.

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NC Health News

MARCH 20, 2025

This would put North Carolina in line with federal law, which sets the age for purchasing tobacco at 21 something that health advocates have been pushing for. By making it a state law, state Alcohol Law Enforcement officials could also enforce it. Department of Health and Human Services.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. Valle worries that eating food from her farm and drinking the water, found also to contain arsenic, are to blame for health issues shes experienced recently. Californias Central Valley is one of the nations biggest agricultural producers.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A proposed rule by the Drug Enforcement Administration would limit access to telemedicine – the Big Cities Health Coalition and over 150 other organizations are asking for this rule to be rescinded. For example, as of December 2023, more than half (169 million) of the U.S.

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NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press Financial pressures on rural hospitals keep some North Carolina facilities from adequately serving pregnant women, new mothers and babies, but that isnt the full picture. Even so, they cant afford to lose too much money, or their ability to provide other services could suffer.

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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.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is coming into the nomination process in an unusual position, with a long list of his own policy priorities separate from the president-elect’s, and a public promise by Trump to let him “go wild” on his ideas. Kennedy Jr.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

New research published in Health Affairs indicates that hospitals often dont assess AI models using their patient data before deploying them, potentially putting patients at risk. an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, said in an interview.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

It will be crucial for health and environment journalists to keep a close watch on how the incoming administration approaches drinking water regulations. The new regulations also mandate enhanced testing of drinking water and lower action thresholds for communities to address lead exposure risks.

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Environmental Health News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Concerns are growing about the fate of a Biden-era rule to limit toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water, with some states moving to introduce laws that would lock in place PFAS protections that could survive any potential rollback by the Trump Administration. I think the quicker we can move the better. An annual report released Feb.

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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.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” New government data shows health care spending is up. Meanwhile, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. What is the role of the Department of Health and Human Services, and how much power does the HHS secretary have over its work? The HHS secretary is also in a position to shape public opinion if given a platform to do so by the media.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 30, 2025

Why this matters Journalists should pay attention to any attempts in Congress to roll back or repeal the Inflation Reduction Act or laws that specifically address drug prices. a health policy professor at Vanderbilt University, who spoke with NBC News. Dusetzina, Ph.D., 1, remain unaffected by Trumps executive actions.

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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.

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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.

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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.)

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National Council on Urban Indian Health

MARCH 28, 2025

Register for NCUIHs 2025 Conference and Hill Day! Proposed Medicaid Changes NCUIH works with partners to support Medicaid and Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Appropriations Updates Status of Continuing Resolution and Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Funding. Register for NCUIHs 2025 Conference and Hill Day!

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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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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Trump and his campaign have been vague about plans on health care policies, though current and former Trump aides have published blueprints that go well beyond reversing programs in force under the Biden administration, to overhauling public health agencies and enabling Trump to quickly fire officials who disagree.

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HEALTHBEAT

JANUARY 23, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. President Donald Trumps early actions on health care signal his likely intention to wipe away some Biden-era programs to lower drug costs and expand coverage under public insurance programs. health care system. Kennedy Jr.,

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 23, 2025

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” Kennedy’s confirmation hearings to be Health and Human Services secretary are scheduled for Jan.

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