Bill to ban most public mask wearing, including for health reasons, advances in North Carolina Updated on: May 17, 2024 / 9:10 AM EDT / AP U.S. to stop accepting orders for free COVID tests ...

“It’s a horrible way to go.” Herndon gave up her first post-graduate public health job in Maine to come back to North Carolina to care for Sara Herndon. Her mother passed away at 74 years old.

“Our hope is that this will only be a pause,” according to the Health and Human Services statement. But without a change to the budget, the Healthy Opportunities Pilots will stop receiving funding and ...

The North Carolina State Senate on Wednesday voted 30–15, along party lines, in favor of a Republican bill that would make it illegal for people in the state to wear a mask in public for health ...

Public health experts are warning that thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of economic impact in North Carolina are on the line, as President Donald Trump continues a stop work order and ...

CaroMont Health in Gastonia, North Carolina, a small city about 20 miles west of Charlotte, operates just one inpatient hospital. But it filed almost 1,800 lawsuits against patients from 2017 to ...

North Carolina Senate Bill 370 and House Bill 455 would eliminate the certificate of need requirement for all health care facilities in the state. This CON reform would greatly improve access to ...

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services hopes to make the situation more tenable by raising the minimum reimbursement rates for behavioral health care for the first time since 2012.