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By Andrew R. Jones Asheville Watchdog Nearly 40 employees connected to North Carolina’s Medicaid Ombudsman program, including nine at Pisgah Legal Services, will lose their jobs by the end of the year...

By Andrew R. Jones Asheville Watchdog State inspectors have returned to Mission Hospital for the second time in four months following complaints from nurses and a coalition of doctors, patient advocat...

By Jaymie Baxley Though North Carolina still has far fewer nurses than it needs, incremental gains have been made in addressing the shortage. That was the key takeaway from an analysis released Sept. ...

By Fred Clasen-Kelly KFF Health News Devon Price, a 15-year-old boy with autism, has attended the largest school district in North Carolina for 10 years, but he cannot read or write. His twin sister, ...

By Will Atwater Mid-September signals the soon-to-arrive familiar fall rhythms: leaves preparing to turn from green to gold and crimson, pumpkin spice flavors reappearing on menus and migratory birds ...

By Rachel Crumpler In 2024, more than 3,000 North Carolinians are estimated to have died from opioid overdose. Since 2000, more than 41,500 people have died from overdoses.  Even as the overdose death...

By Jennifer Fernandez Jamestown resident Ashley Robinson’s third child arrived three months early. A micro-preemie, Milo weighed just 1 pound, 2.7 ounces, smaller than an average woman’s shoe. At 3 we...

By Anne Blythe In an effort to tamp down confusion and frustration about who can and can’t get a COVID vaccine, and whether they have to have a health care provider’s prescription, state health direct...