Lawmakers: Don’t let the political aisle be a barrier to good health care policy
The drumbeat of polarized partisan rancor can be so deafening that messages of people working together in politics can easily get lost. But it’s happening, here in North Carolina — a …
Betsy Johnson Hospital to end labor and delivery services
DUNN — Betsy Johnson Hospital will end labor and delivery services effective Oct. 15, Cape Fear Valley Health said in a news release. The hospital, a part of Harnett Health and the Cape Fear Valley system, has experienced declining demand for maternity services and recruitment challenges, the news release said.
Where have all the psychiatrists gone?
When a South Charlotte mom was looking for a psychiatrist to prescribe medication for her teenage daughter’s depression last year, she described sitting with her phone and going down the list of doctors listed as in network with her insurance company. Some weren’t taking new patients. Others never returned her messages. And a few said…
Cape Fear Valley Health begins construction of Harnett County cancer center
Cape Fear Valley Health and Harnett Health broke ground on a cancer center and medical office building at Central Harnett Hospital in Lillington on Monday, according to at health system news release.
Sampson County residents wary of landfill methane plan
Whitney Parker has had enough. The Snow Hill resident lives close enough to the GFL Sampson County Regional Landfill to see the daily operations from his house. Parker said that for decades, the landfill has cast an imposing shadow over his community and destroyed its quality of life.
Mental health agencies agree to consolidate amid delayed launch of Medicaid plans
Two organizations that manage behavioral health services for people on Medicaid and for some uninsured people in different areas of North Carolina have agreed to merge into a single entity that will serve more than 100,000 people across 21 counties.
DHHS plans to speed up Medicaid expansion; what would that mean for North Carolina?
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced plans to accelerate the launch of Medicaid expansion to Oct. 1, which is about three months earlier than expected.
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State health leaders announce plan to speed up Medicaid expansion
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services hopes to accelerate the launch of Medicaid expansion, potentially giving more than 600,000 low-income residents access to health insurance coverage as early as Oct. 1.
Kids and adults with disabilities find community, fitness in workout class
On a warm summer evening, laughter fills a gym furnished with red and black fitness equipment as more than 20 people attempt to grab clothespins attached to each other’s shirts. Participants range from young teenagers to those who are starting to gray around the temples. Some have cognitive and physical disabilities and join in with…
Lawsuit alleges patient overcharging at Asheville’s Mission Hospital
Two longtime emergency room doctors have blown the whistle on what they say is fraudulent overcharging by HCA Healthcare, which owns Mission Health, and its medical staffing company, TeamHealth, according to a recently unsealed lawsuit filed last year.
After a decades-long stalemate, nurse-midwives can now practice without physician ‘supervision’
Suzanne Wertman used to work as a certified nurse-midwife at a private practice in Wilmington. But in a day, that changed. The physicians who ran the practice abruptly decided to shut down midwifery services at the practice. There was no transition period, she said. When Wertman lost her job that day in 2009, she also lost the…
Striking gap between deaths of Black and white babies continues to plague the South
BAMBERG, S.C. — Years before Bamberg County Hospital closed in 2012, and the next-closest hospital in neighboring Barnwell shut its doors in 2016, those facilities had stopped delivering babies. These days, there’s not even an ultrasound machine in this rural county 60 miles south of Columbia, much less an obstetrician. Pregnant women here are left…
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