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KFF Health News
MARCH 24, 2025
Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state’s first “healing centers,” where the mushrooms can be ingested under supervision, in late spring or early summer. The mushrooms are a Schedule I drug and illegal under federal law except for clinical research.
NC Health News
DECEMBER 21, 2024
by Lucas Thomae and Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press State oversight of nursing homes received a scathing performance audit, released on Wednesday. The DHHS Division of Health Service Regulations role is to routinely inspect those nursing homes and investigate complaints involving them. 1, 2019, through Dec.
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NC Health News
MARCH 24, 2025
Rick Goforth, then 75, was in good health; he was an avid walker who enjoyed being outside. Then they complained to the state, which found the facility had violated regulations resulting in death or serious physical harm, abuse, neglect or exploitation of a resident. Eventually, the state fined the facility $19,000.
The Network for Public Health Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
A Message from Interim Co-Executive Directors Quang (“Q”) Dang and Ann Phi-Wendt “ While laws and policies can serve as barriers to health equity, they can also be used to promote health and advance equity and this is, has been, and will continue to be the focus of our work, whatever the political climate might bring.
NC Health News
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Department of Health and Human Services pointed to a lack of resources and inadequate staff hampering their ability to keep up with complaints. But taxpayer money, such as the federal health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid, shouldnt be used to reimburse facilities where people arent taken care of, she said.
NC Health News
APRIL 15, 2025
But the law that expanded North Carolinas Medicaid program contains a trigger law that says if the funding match from the federal government decreases , North Carolinas Medicaid expansion program automatically ends. However, most of the Medicaid expansion population works already in low-wage jobs where health insurance is not offered.
NC Health News
MARCH 28, 2025
Each chamber has its own deadlines for filing policy bills, which come pretty early in the legislative session. That means lawmakers need to get busy drafting and filing policy bills in February and March. 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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