Archive for category: Covid 19

By Andrew Jones KFF Health News Silvana Toska was playing in a grass field with her daughters late last fall when she felt a sting on her ankle. The family had come to listen for barred and great horn...

By Michelle Crouch and Rose Hoban Atrium Health, the state’s largest hospital system, is seeking to combine with Raleigh-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals, an independent nonprofit with five hospit...

By Ashley Fredde Be Lanier, a sophomore at Cape Fear Academy, recently turned 16 years old — a milestone that often brings new independence. But for Lanier, it’s hard to think about getting older when...

By Jaymie Baxley and Jennifer Fernandez North Carolina’s county social service offices are scrambling to prepare for new Medicaid work requirements — and most are still waiting for guidance from feder...

By Jaymie Baxley and Jennifer Fernandez On a Thursday morning in March, Tyrome Powell was holding court over a small group of men at the Tiny House HOPE Center in Greensboro as he talked about basketb...

By Michelle Crouch The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority board has scheduled a special meeting for today with four hours set aside for a closed session, an unusually long stretch of private dis...

By Rachel Crumpler For 25 years, Lars Paul worked on the front lines of the war on drugs with the Fayetteville Police Department — making arrests for drug possession, responding to overdoses, leading ...

By Jaymie Baxley Meredith McCumbee has seen firsthand the difference applied behavioral analysis therapy, commonly known as ABA, can make in children with autism. Aaron, her 16-year-old son, was diagn...

By Morgan Casey Border Belt Independent Dozens of health care workers, law enforcement officers, and representatives of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina celebrated Southeastern Integrated Care’s new...

 By Annie Sciacca The War Horse Nearly every day for months, Lorelei Evans, a major in the U.S. Army Reserve, received a call or text from a doctor’s office trying to collect on some of her family’s ...