By Michelle Crouch Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger For years, Charlotte’s health care market has been dominated by two names: Atrium Health and Novant Health. Between them, the two hospital sys...
Sep
2025
06
By Walter S. DeKeseredy The Conversation I have been teaching a course on rural criminology since 2014, and most of my students are surprised by the information on violence against women presented to ...
Sep
2025
05
By Jaymie Baxley Jennifer Shigley can’t speak or walk without assistance. The 49-year-old also cannot feed or bathe herself. Her father, a retired child psychologist, described her as having the menta...
Sep
2025
04
By Jennifer Fernandez Greensboro-based Cone Health is expanding its school-based telehealth program to offer remote mental health services for the first time. Students struggling with anxiety, depress...
Sep
2025
03
By Taylor Knopf A new psychiatric hospital in Greenville will begin serving patients in eastern North Carolina later this month. ECU Health Behavioral Health Hospital is a new 144-bed facility intend...
Sep
2025
02
By Michelle Crouch The Charlotte Ledger When city of Charlotte workers get sick, they don’t have to wait weeks for a primary care appointment or shell out a co-pay for an urgent care visit. Instead, t...
Aug
2025
30
By Arthur Allen KFF Health News Don’t get Nathan Jones started on xylitol, the active ingredient in his chewing gum, nasal spray, and other products. He’ll talk your ear off about its wondrous powers ...
Aug
2025
29
By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press East Carolina University Health is officially pursuing the idea of reopening Martin General Hospital, the shuttered hospital in Eastern North Carolina. Bu...
Aug
2025
28
By Elisabeth Rosenthal KFF Health News Wary of inflation, Americans have been watching the prices of everyday items such as eggs and gasoline. A less-noticed expense should cause greater alarm: rising...
Aug
2025
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By Katie Dukes Education NC The number of licensed family child care homes (FCCHs) in North Carolina has decreased by 22% since before the pandemic. During the five years when pandemic-era funding wa...