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Frontline health clinics adapt to climate challenges with assistance from a free resource

NC Health News

The Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit provided Helping Hand, which offers medical services to low-income and uninsured residents of Lee and Harnett counties, a road map for preparing the staff and its patients for storms and other climate catastrophes.” Chan School of Public Health.

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Saving hearts — and farmworker lives — in the fields

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Sharp, a Wayne County resident for the past decade, is a trained nurse with a passion for community and public health. “There was a real interest from both the farmworkers and the growers in wanting to know more about CPR,” Sharp told NC Health News in a recent interview. Juan Allen is amazing,” Sharp said Sept.

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Rural water utilities in North Carolina are still reeling from Helene

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The landscape along the creeks and mountainsides has been forever changed. Everyone has had to adjust to these changes and more, even as they’ve dealt with similar problems at home. The post Rural water utilities in North Carolina are still reeling from Helene appeared first on North Carolina Health News.

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Extreme heat deaths and illness spark push in NC for federal heat protection standards

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Department of Labor and its Occupational Safety and Health Administration extended the public comment period for weighing in on a proposed rule to better protect people from extreme heat in indoor and outdoor workplaces. Gonzlez Mendoza died as a result of a pre-existing condition, Payne said in a statement sent to NC Health News.