A bill moving through the North Carolina Legislature would expand Medicaid assisted living access to more than 24,000 low-income older adults.

Although the tax cuts for the wealthy take effect in 2025 and 2026, the deep cuts to safety-net programs that slash $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade won’t start causing pain until ...

More than 60 million Americans get their health care from rural hospitals, which in many states can be the lifeblood of a community. They are not only the primary source of emergency, preventive, and ...

The founder and executive director of Let’s Talk About It-The Autism Center, a Charlotte-based nonprofit for autistic people ...

An analysis by researchers at the University of North Carolina found that more than 300 rural hospitals in the U.S. are now at risk of closing. Nine of them are in Illinois.

Research published in JAMA Health Forum projects 13-14 excess deaths and over 800 preventable hospitalizations annually per 100,000 people losing Medicaid coverage ...

Here’s the question of vital interest to everyone in western North Carolina put before two of our federal lawmakers: In casting your vote, what did you think will be the impact of the so-called One ...

A new performance audit from the North Carolina Office of the State Auditor (OSA) found patient safety vulnerabilities in ...

The NC DHHS says anyone can access 988 for free mental health resources through call, text or online chat anytime for any need.

The comments came in a letter sent by all of the state's Republican congressmen to Gov. Josh Stein, a Democrat, who had urged ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... With the passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” concerns have been raised on ...