NC Health News

APRIL 18, 2025

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.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Call for New AMCHP Association Committee Members is Open Through November 8 Are you interested in effecting meaningful change nationally and have your voice heard on maternal and child health (MCH) matters? MacQueen Lecture Award : For innovation in the field of maternal and child health.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As state and local governments begin spending billions in opioid settlement funds , one of the loudest and most frequent questions from the public has been: Where are the dollars going? And several just squeaked by, meeting the letter of the law but falling far short of communicating to the public in a clear and meaningful manner.

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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. We over-built [the industry], we under-supported , and then we expected a lot, she said.

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NC Health News

MAY 6, 2025

Dozens of bills moved through their respective committees; 24 bills were heard in health committees alone. Health policy topics ranged from a proposal to require insurance companies to cover prosthetic devices to one that would ban homeless people from sleeping or camping in public. Co-sponsor Rep.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. It was the latest in a drumbeat of health issues that she traces to the first months of 2020, when dozens of veterans died at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, in one of the country’s deadliest Covid-19 outbreaks at a long-term nursing facility.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 24, 2025

By Emily Vespa For more than four months, 32-year-old Jackson Hedgepeth has lived in a small room at Atrium Health Union hospital in Monroe, waiting for help. Iverson Riddle, a state-operated center that provides services for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities (often referred to as I/DD) for more than a year.

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