Archive for category: Covid 19

By Jane Winik Sartwell  Carolina Public Press This week, HCA Healthcare settled an antitrust lawsuit that has plagued the Asheville-based Mission Health system for three years.  In 2022, four Western ...

By Rose Hoban North Carolinians who rely on the Affordable Care Act marketplace to buy their health insurance might want to start socking away extra savings for steep rate hikes expected in the coming...

By Rachel Crumpler To give more seriously ill incarcerated people the opportunity to go home before they die, North Carolina lawmakers expanded the eligibility criteria of prison medical release in 20...

By Michelle Crouch Mecklenburg County commissioners chair Mark Jerrell said he is confident that Atrium Health will share data with him on the racial and ethnic makeup of the first class on the Wake F...

By Liz Bell and Katie Dukes Education NC Western North Carolina’s child care network continues to recover from Hurricane Helene, which devastated the region close to a year ago. Providers shared their...

By Will Atwater As the Trump administration keeps pushing to change the focus of scientific research and roll back environmental regulations — moves that critics say favor industry over public health ...

By Mebane Rash Education NC In June 2025, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) confirmed the first case of measles this year in North Carolina. In July, Haywood County first conf...

By Jackie Fortiér KFF Health News For two decades, Washington, D.C., pediatrician Lanre Falusi has counseled parents about vaccine safety, side effects, and timing. But this year, she said, the conver...

By Jaymie Baxley North Carolina’s first-in-the-nation Healthy Opportunities Pilot, which sought to address the nonmedical health needs of rural residents on Medicaid, faces a bleak future after state ...

By Taylor Knopf In April, the federal Department of Education canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding that put additional mental health workers and services in schools, including fou...