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Latinos, the coronavirus and a single ZIP code
By Greg Barnes and Victoria Bouloubasis This story is being co-published with Enlace Latino NC. Read it here in Spanish. Maricela Martinez still remembers getting her first paycheck from a chicken...
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Coronavirus Today – June 2 – GOP convention and NC demands; Cooper shares...
By North Carolina Health News staff Cooper, Trump and the RNC Convention Gov. Roy Cooper was on the phone with President Donald Trump on Friday evening, having a back and forth about the president’s...
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As COVID-19 threatened western N.C., a new approach to fighting it in...
By Thomas Goldsmith and Hannah Critchfield Jan. 31: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declares a domestic public health emergency. Late in February, Mark Shepherd kept trying to tell...
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Coronavirus Today – June 18 – Campaigning for the face mask; $3.3 million...
By North Carolina Health News staff In this campaign year, governor stumps for the face mask Gov. Roy Cooper has not ruled out the possibility of reinstating social distancing restrictions if the...
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Thirty-six veterans die of COVID-19 in NC state veterans nursing homes that a...
By Thomas Goldsmith and Riley Davis North Carolina’s state-owned veterans nursing homes became the place where 36 ailing men caught COVID-19, then died, after surviving tours in places such as Pearl...
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Cooper, national leaders respond to ravaged veterans nursing homes, look...
By Thomas Goldsmith and Riley Davis The 36 deaths of North Carolina veterans in state veterans nursing homes have gotten the attention of Gov. Roy Cooper, whose spokesman says he’s moving to hold...
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As $35M in nursing-home fines sits mostly idle, COVID-ridden NC ranks 3rd...
By Thomas Goldsmith Federal regulators can fine North Carolina nursing homes upward of a half-million dollars when facilities go seriously wrong — as in the case of a Fayetteville resident who died...
View ArticleNew guidance on life after COVID vaccination
By Christian Green Carolina Public Press As nearly 2 million North Carolinians have received at least one dose of a vaccine against the deadly coronavirus, individuals are beginning to ask questions...
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To vaccinate thousands, NC turns to volunteers
By Hannah Critchfield For a rollout large enough to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic, you need volunteers. A lot of them. Getting shots into millions of arms requires boots on the ground, and to...
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As NC’s Medicaid managed care transition draws near, consumers express...
By Liora Engel-Smith Come July 1, North Carolina’s Medicaid program is being placed into the hands of commercial insurers, and this time, state officials say, the transition is all but guaranteed. The...
View ArticleSweeping legislation aims to combat Black maternal mortality
For 35 weeks, Tomeka Isaac had a normal pregnancy. As a 40-year-old Black woman, she was at high risk for preeclampsia, a complication characterized by high blood pressure that can cause organ...
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Coronavirus Today – Apr. 28 — Peeling back the mask mandate for outdoors
North Carolinians will soon be able to go outside without wearing face coverings and not be in violation of the state’s mask mandate. Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Wednesday that after 5 p.m. Friday...
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Proposed law could make life easier for North Carolina’s foster parents
By Mona Dougani In 2016, Brooks Rainey Pearson and her husband decided that they wanted to become foster parents. They didn’t have any children of their own, but they wanted to provide a welcoming...
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Coronavirus Today – July 29 Governor to require state workers in his cabinet...
By Anne Blythe When Gov. Roy Cooper and Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, stepped up to the podium in the state Emergency Operations Center on Thursday,...
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Appeals, secret deals delay fine payment for assisted living centers
By Thomas Goldsmith and Mona Dougani When Ashe Gardens Assisted Living in Pender County “failed to provide supervision for 11 residents with assaultive, aggressive, sexually expressive and wandering...
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Questions about COVID testing in NC prisons cause confusion, fear for inmates
By Elizabeth Thompson As the most recent COVID-19 outbreak spread throughout the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women late this summer, the most pervasive feeling among those incarcerated...
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In the wake of Supreme Court leak, NC advocates ponder the future of abortion...
By Elizabeth Thompson and Rose Hoban As abortion rights advocates across the country chewed over a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that would strike down the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision...
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Medicaid patients and county workers brace for the end of the COVID public...
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven When the pandemic hit, Rachel got sick with COVID-19. Like millions of others across the country, the rural eastern North Carolina resident lost her job. Though it was a...
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A widow’s plea results in proposed tweaks to NC dental sedation rules
By Anne Blythe More than two years have passed since Hemant “Henry” Patel, a beloved and respected cardiologist, died in a New Hanover County hospital after a dental implant procedure spiraled out of...
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New lawsuit accuses DHHS of ‘warehousing’ NC children with disabilities in...
By Anne Blythe Disability Rights North Carolina and the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP have joined forces to help children of color with disabilities in the state’s foster care program...
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