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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.

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‘A slap on the wrist’: families and advocates call for increased accountability from assisted living facilities 

NC Health News

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.

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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

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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This week at the NC General Assembly: Reproductive health, nursing practice scope, paid family leave and more

NC Health News

This years crossover date, May 8, marks the point by which any bill thats purely policy and lacking any state appropriations needs to be approved by at least one chamber, or it dies until the beginning of the next biennium. There were dozens of health care bills filed and considered this week; NC Health News will run down a handful of them.

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Super Bowl Rally Shooting Victims Pick Up Pieces, but Gun Violence Haunts Their Lives

KFF Health News

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.