Stories tagged: "healthcare"

Economy Rural Western North Carolina. Photo Credit: Dylan Rhoney
Economy How North Carolina’s Budget Impacts Rural Communities

For rural NC, the budget has a boost in Medicaid expansion, and another round of pain for public education. 

Dylan Rhoney Dylan Rhoney September 28, 2023 10:16 am EDT
community Rosalind Pichardo, the founder of the Philadelphia organization Operation Save Our City, demonstrates how to administer Narcan at the Health and Human Services Humphrey Building on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, in Washington. Health officials held an event on Friday to mark the availability of the opioid overdose-reversal drug naloxone without a prescription. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
community Here’s How One NC County Is Recovering from the Opioid Epidemic

This eastern NC County is using the cash to buy more Narcan, an emergency overdose treatment. They’re also partnering with local orgs to reach more people. Share this with someone in Wilson. 

Leah Sherrell Leah Sherrell September 14, 2023 1:02 pm EDT
Health For the past three years, the U.S. has been in a public health emergency because of COVID-19. It ended today. (Image via NC DPS)
Health The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Is Officially Over in the U.S.

For the past three years, the country has been in a public health emergency, it ends today. That means many people will have to start paying for COVID tests.

Leah Sherrell Leah Sherrell May 11, 2023 5:28 pm EDT
Healthcare FILE - North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper speaks at a primary election night event hosted by the North Carolina Democratic Party in Raleigh, N.C., May 17, 2022. A Medicaid expansion deal in North Carolina received final legislative approval Thursday, March 23, 2023, likely ending a decade of debate over whether the closely politically divided state should accept the federal government's coverage for hundreds of thousands of low-income adults. Cooper, a longtime expansion advocate, is expected to sign the bill, which would leave 10 states in the U.S. that have not adopted expansion. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown, File)
Healthcare North Carolina Finally Approves Medicaid Expansion

For more than a decade, Republicans blocked a federally-funded expansion of healthcare to a half-million North Carolinians. On Thursday, they finally budged.

Associated Press Associated Press March 23, 2023 11:59 am EDT
North Carolina Crowds cheer during a 2018 demonstration against the GOP-controlled NC General Assembly's education policies, including the state's expanding private school voucher program. School funding is one of the areas that figures to suffer if Republicans eliminate the state's corporate tax. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)
North Carolina What’s At Stake If Republicans Eliminate NC’s Corporate Tax

With the state facing shortfalls in health care, education, and housing, the GOP proposal would cost the state more than $1 billion.

Associated Press Associated Press March 21, 2023 12:07 pm EDT

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Hundreds of abortion-rights supporters ralied outside the North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C, on May 13 to urge Republican legislators to sustain Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of new abortion restrictions. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum) Abortion Judge Blocks Two Provisions of NC’s 12-Week Abortion Ban
In the latest episode of "Leah Tries," C&P's Leah Sherrell visits a Chilean-inspired food truck in the Triad. (Image via screenshot) Video ‘I Demolished It’: Taste-Testing A Chilean Food Truck in the Triad
Thousands of educators filled Bicentennial Plaza during a rally for better pay in Raleigh, N.C. in 2018. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) Public Schools NC Teacher Raises Don’t Keep Up With the Cost of Pencils
Irvin Casarrubias prepares to perform as part of the Danza Guerreros de Quetzalcoatl de Durham at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, North Carolina on September 24, 2023. The intergenerational group celebrates traditional Aztec dance and helps to preserve Mexican culture as its members put down roots in the communities they now call home. Casarubbias, now 18, has been dancing since we was five-years-old. community PHOTOS: Traditional Aztec Dancers Put On a Show in Wilmington
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Mental health Crippling Health Workforce Shortages Mean Hospitals Can’t Admit Mental Health Patients—Even if Beds Are Empty

The NC Department of Health and Human Services' new bed tracker found that during the week of Feb. 20, 489 people were waiting to be admitted to one of the state’s psychiatric facilities, with 253 of them were waiting for a psychiatric hospital.  

Rose Hoban March 1, 2023 2:14 pm EST
Health Photograph via Dana Bango (Bango on the right)
Health ‘I Want to See Her Grow Up’: A North Carolina Mom on How Medicaid Expansion Would Change Her Life

The state House approved a bill to expand Medicaid access to 600,000 more North Carolina residents on Wednesday.

Keya Vakil Keya Vakil February 17, 2023 10:28 am EST