NC Health News
JANUARY 25, 2025
By Heidi Perez-Moreno Border Belt Independent When Mary Campbell gave birth to her first daughter in 2021, her maternity room at UNC Health Southeastern was cramped and loud. But when Campbell, who works as an emergency room nurse at the hospital in Lumberton, had her second child last month, her experience was very different.
NC Health News
MARCH 23, 2025
By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press The paradox of rural womens health care in North Carolina: Small, remote hospitals cant afford to keep delivering babies and providing other critical OB/GYN services, but their communities cant afford for them to stop. No analogous system exists for maternal care in North Carolina.
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NC Health News
JANUARY 13, 2025
The tool kit was produced in 2022 through a collaboration between Americares , a nonprofit that provides health-focused aid in response to disasters, and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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NC Health News
MARCH 19, 2025
Credit: Melissa Sue Gerrits / Carolina Public Press Maintaining specialized, 24/7 staff, up-to-date equipment, and adequate space for a labor and delivery unit, also called a maternity ward, generates substantial expenses. Closing maternity wards has sometimes served as a warning sign of deeper financial troubles to come.
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