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Stein’s budget proposal invests in health care workforce, child care, improved access

NC Health News

That money could come on top of investments in community colleges that the legislature appropriated in the 2023 budget to address long-term health care personnel shortages across the state. Providing $1 million in each of the next two years to the NC Area Health Education Center nursing workforce expansion. Allocating $1.3

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Financial pressures prompt women’s services cuts at NC rural hospitals

NC Health News

If youre averaging one or two deliveries a day, potentially you could go a couple days without deliveries, but you still have to staff, said Dolly Pressley Byrd, chair of the obstetrics and gynecology department at the Asheville-based Mountain Area Health Education Center, or MAHEC. The staffing guidelines are pretty stringent.

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At His HHS Job Interview, RFK Jr. Stumbles Over Health Policy Basics 

KFF Health News

the anti-vaccine activist President Donald Trump nominated to lead the nation’s top health agency, did little to win over his critics at two Senate confirmation hearings this week. And by botching answers to basic questions about health policy, Kennedy supplied some evidence. Kennedy Jr., Bill Cassidy (R-La.),