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State regulators have approved an additional 70 hospital beds and four operating rooms for hospitals in Wake County, a far cry from the 246 hospital beds and 13 additional operating rooms that were requested.
Published: Sunday, February 23rd, 2025 @ 2:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced eligible hospitals in the state will begin receiving payments through the Healthcare Access and Stabilization Program (HASP).
Published: Thursday, December 28th, 2023 @ 9:31 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Duke Health and UNC Health are battling at the state Court of Appeals over state regulators' decision to allow a new 40-bed UNC Health hospital in Durham County.
Published: Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 @ 8:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Walter B. Jones Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center in Greenville, N.C., has been recognized as one of the Best Addiction Treatment Centers in America for 2023 in Newsweek’s annual rankings.
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 2:47 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The state has given WakeMed preliminary approval to build a new hospital in Garner and a new mental health hospital in Knightdale. The state also approved adding beds to both Duke Raleigh and UNC Rex hospitals.
Published: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 @ 12:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Jim Bostian, Aetna’s market president for North Carolina, addressed the State Health Plan Board of Trustees at their meeting Wednesday, with promises of building upon a seamless transition as the new SHP third-party administrator beginning on Jan. 1, 2025.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 5:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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ECU’s occupational therapy program a perfect fit for Rogan twins
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 8:51 am
By: ECU News Services
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ECU health sciences prepare its graduates to lead the rural workforce
Published: Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 @ 4:29 am
By: ECU News Services
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Largest number of ECU Health honorees in system’s history
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2022 @ 9:15 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The good news for Buncombe County: three medical care providers are planning on investing in new medical care facilities, increasing access for patients.
Published: Monday, July 11th, 2022 @ 5:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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ECU Board of Trustees names dean, confers degrees
Published: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 4:07 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced appointments and nominations to North Carolina boards and commissions.
Published: Tuesday, July 20th, 2021 @ 2:46 am
By: Governor's Office
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Vik Khanna argues in a Federalist column that we are all suffering now from hospitals‘ lack of preparation for a pandemic.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2020 @ 4:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A collection of North Carolina experts today released a composite modeling forecast looking at how COVID-19 could affect North Carolina in the coming months.
Published: Monday, April 6th, 2020 @ 6:22 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Along with the rest of the nation, North Carolina is facing an unprecedented health challenge with the COVID-19 virus.
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 @ 12:24 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Regulations continue to prevent advanced nurse practitioners from volunteering to care for sick or injured people in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2020 @ 2:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina has decided to waive Certificate-of-Need (CON) restrictions on hospital beds in response to the Coronavirus outbreak.
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2020 @ 3:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Uncertainty clouds the discussion of how the U.S. should fight the spread of the COVID-19, the flu-like respiratory disease that originated in China in December and was first reported in the U.S. in late January.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 @ 1:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The threat of a coronavirus outbreak has pushed North Carolina into waiving state caps on hospital beds.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2020 @ 11:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services officials joined other state and local officials today to dedicate the new Broughton Hospital, one of the state's three acute care psychiatric hospitals.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 @ 6:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Patients deserve better access to both life-saving and life-preserving health-care treatments
Published: Saturday, June 17th, 2017 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Wednesday December 21, 2016 Judge Gregory McGuire heard the complaints filed some of the stock holders against the Pantego Creek, LLC managers.
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2017 @ 1:28 am
By: Hood Richardson
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On behalf of Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Transportation Secretary Nick Tennyson participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony today...
Published: Monday, September 19th, 2016 @ 1:55 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Rick Brajer joined state and local officials to celebrate the opening of the new Cherry Hospital today
Published: Friday, September 2nd, 2016 @ 3:26 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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"They called me the miracle man." This is how Ronald Sharpe, from Pendleton, N.C. in Northampton County, described meeting the clinicians who helped to give him a second chance at life. Sharpe's liver was severely injured following a motorcycle accident in March 2016.
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2016 @ 10:47 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Budget writers working on the state's 2016-17 spending plan received the OK to increase the amount of money to open new psychiatric beds around the state from $12 million to $18 million, using proceeds from the sale of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh, while eliminating a controversial regulation.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2016 @ 1:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Andrew Cox, a certified physician assistant, joined Vidant Family Medicine — Belhaven, located at 216 Haslin Street, on March 22.
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2016 @ 4:14 am
By: Chris Downey
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Six of Vidant Health's hospitals are joining the Wake Forest Baptist Telestroke Network. Fully operational members include Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington, Vidant Duplin Hospital in Kenansville, and Vidant Edgecombe in Tarboro. Later this year, Vidant Bertie Hospital in Windsor, Vidant...
Published: Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 @ 3:54 am
By: Chris Downey
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Many people have a fixed mental image of what modern nursing looks like — one that's based on countless trips to physicians' offices, clinics and hospitals across a lifetime.
Published: Saturday, February 6th, 2016 @ 9:33 am
By: ECU News Services
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Walk into the Pitt County Care Clinic on any given Sunday afternoon and you will see a group of enthusiastic yet nervous medical students huddled together, chatting to ease their nerves. Each of them is ready to experience their first dose of patient interaction.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 5:28 am
By: ECU News Services
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All claims brought by the Town of Belhaven and the NC NAACP in the recent lawsuit against Vidant Health have been dismissed in their entirety.
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 1:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Two rural hospitals could be reopened under state legislation that includes the first substantive reform of North Carolina's certificate of need regulation.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 8:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Health care policy decisions usually come as federal dictates, so it's a rare opportunity when state legislators have full authority to grant North Carolinians more freedom over their health care options.
Published: Monday, September 7th, 2015 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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