By Rachel Crumpler For up to four hours at a time, William Buhl attentively monitors a person who is on suicide watch at Nash Correctional Institution — a medium custody prison in Nashville. Buhl sits...
By Jennifer Fernandez The latest national “report card” on how U.S. children are faring shows North Carolina struggling in key areas, from categories as broad as educational outcomes to individual mea...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Because of the stigma that is often attached to mental illness, this article assigns the pseudonyms Laura, David and Ashley to protect the privacy of the people in this story. And a cau...
By Michelle Crouch The Charlotte Ledger After Cathy Head of Charlotte fell and fractured her shoulder in 2023, she was pleased that her health insurance covered almost all of the expenses for her care...
By Dawn Attride/Sentient The Daily Yonder This story was originally published by Sentient. In Duplin County, North Carolina, there is a pollutant that hangs in the air, the water and the soil. It tumb...
By Grace Vitaglione The health plan that covers some 750,000 current and former state employees and their families has hit a stone wall in negotiations with its pharmacy benefit manager, CVS Caremark,...
By Grace Vitaglione and Jaymie Baxley In 2022, Christina Schnabel was a single mom in Hendersonville barely making ends meet. She lived in public housing and made do with help from services like Medic...
By Anne Blythe Many in the food assistance world say they live by the adage “prepare for the worst and hope for the best.” That’s what Amy Beros, president and chief executive officer of Food Bank of ...
By Grace Vitaglione and Will Atwater People dressed in green filled the seats at a North Carolina Senate committee hearing on May 14 — their clothes an act of protest against this year’s Senate versio...
By Jaymie Baxley, Rose Hoban and Grace Vitaglione The Healthy Opportunities Pilot, a Medicaid program that addressed the nonmedical health needs of low-income North Carolinians, will cease operations ...