NC Health News

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Jones Asheville Watchdog Mission Health has permanently closed Asheville Specialty Hospital, the only long-term acute care hospital in western North Carolina, less than two months after suspending its services following Tropical Storm Helene. “We Joseph’s campus,” Mission Health spokesperson Nancy Lindell said Nov.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Our rural health care system has suffered badly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It entered the pandemic with severe structural weaknesses, including magnified health disparities and inequities, lower rates of vaccination in the general population, and high risk of rural hospital closures. Eric Larsen.

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NC Health News

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

By Liz Carey The Daily Yonder According to new research from the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center , rural residents are not significantly more likely to be worried about their medical bills than their urban counterparts, but they are more likely to have trouble paying them. Rural women (44.9

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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. These systems demonstrated that they are capable of producing, rapidly and on demand, demonstrable social benefit.

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