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By Jaymie Baxley  North Carolina’s new Medicaid plan for children in the foster care system has enrolled more than 32,000 young people, and state and health plan officials told lawmakers Tuesday they’...

By Jennifer Fernandez Annette, a North Carolina woman raising her granddaughter, recounted crying herself to sleep every night before she was able to find child care in her rural Jackson County commun...

By Michelle Crouch What if your health plan offered free surgery, but only by surgeons on its approved list? That’s the incentive behind a new program the North Carolina State Health Plan is rolling o...

By Jennifer Allen Coastal Review Online As North Carolina’s population grows, local and state governments, elected officials, educators and nonprofit groups are bracing for the demands more residents ...

By Rachel Crumpler A clear container of pink, blue and white beads sits on display at the nurses’ station of a five-bed rural maternity care unit in Siler City, the Chatham County seat. A label reads:...

By Will Atwater Ron Ross, 70, has spent decades in Charlotte’s Historic West End watching traffic thicken on nearby I‑77 and working alongside his neighbors to fight for cleaner air and a healthier fu...

By Ashley Fredde Teepa Snow had been properly warned that “Ms. Jackson is on a tear” by the on-duty nurse when she strode into the room.  She recalls huffing in exasperation  and thinking in response ...

By Jennifer Fernandez RALEIGH — A statewide group that has focused on improving the health of mothers and babies since 2009 has been winding down its work since it lost state funding last October. Wor...

By Taylor Knopf As North Carolina lawmakers grapple with how to keep people with serious mental illness out of jails and hospitals, one intervention that has piqued their interest is forcing people in...