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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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Two applicants have filed certificate of need applications with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to develop a fixed MRI scanner in response to a need determination in the 2024 State Medical Facilities Plan.
Published: Wednesday, August 14th, 2024 @ 11:09 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Three applicants have filed certificate of need applications with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to develop a Medicare-certified Home Health Agency
Published: Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 @ 12:58 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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Two applicants have filed certificate of need applications with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to develop operating rooms
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 1:00 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Six applicants have filed certificate of need applications with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to acquire one or more mobile MRI scanner(s) in response to a need determination in the 2023 State Medical Facilities Plan
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 10:53 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Two applicants have filed certificate of need applications with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to acquire one fixed MRI scanner
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 12:35 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Health Service Regulation today announced it has made a new temporary pathway available for individuals who worked in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic as temporary nurse aides to be listed on the Nurse Aide I Registry.
Published: Monday, May 3rd, 2021 @ 6:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina has rolled back many regulations in health care during the Coronavirus outbreak.
Published: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 @ 4:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has convened a Testing Surge Workgroup to develop a plan to increase testing, expand testing sites and options, and address testing supply challenges, including the availability of personal protective equipment.
Published: Saturday, April 18th, 2020 @ 2:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The coronavirus did what years of lawmaking and lawsuits failed to do — pushed North Carolina to temporarily waive barriers on telemedicine and the controversial certificate of need laws that restrict the supply of health care.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2020 @ 2:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Executive Order No. 130 Also Waives Rules to make Child Care and Workers Available
Published: Thursday, April 9th, 2020 @ 2:27 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Officials from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the NC Department of Public Safety will be participating with federal, state and local officials in a multi-state Ebola virus disease emergency preparedness exercise Nov. 4–8, 2019.
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 @ 7:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, President Trump approved Governor Cooper’s request for a major disaster declaration for Public Assistance for the following counties impacted by Hurricane Dorian: Brunswick, Carteret, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Hyde, Jones, New Hanover, Pamlico, Pender, Sampson, Tyrrell, and Washington.
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 8:14 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking repeal of six unnecessary certificate-of-need rules to reduce the regulatory burden on medical diagnostic centers and purchase of major medical equipment
Published: Wednesday, August 24th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory signed Senate Bill 698 (Legacy Medical Care Facility/CON Exempt) into law on October 28, 2015.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's going to take a while longer for the North Carolina Legislature to pass its two-year budget. Part of the hold up will be finalizing an agreement on reforming the state's certificate of need (CON) law, which requires health systems and medical providers to first obtain a hall pass from the...
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 9:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vidant Medical Center has filed an application with the Healthcare Planning and Certificate of Need Section of the N.C. Division of Health Service Regulation to add 85 acute care beds in Pitt County.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 4:34 am
By: Christopher Maye
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North Carolina hospitals argue that dismantling regulations in the state's certificate of need laws would impair their ability to treat indigent patients. A research scholar at George Mason University's Mercatus Center says empirical studies conclude such dire warnings are little more than a...
Published: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 @ 9:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's been a little over one week since the House filed HB 200, which would loosen up the state's Certificate of Need (CON) law - a regulatory burden requiring medical providers to ask permission from the state and their competitors before expanding their businesses.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 9:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Removing outdated legal barriers to consumer health care choices could help corral rising Medicaid costs in North Carolina, reform advocates say.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 6:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has fewer hospital beds and MRI scanners than other states, and restrains psychiatric services because of a regulatory process that protects legacy health care providers
Published: Monday, February 23rd, 2015 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While Obamacare continues to flood the health care sector with more taxes and mandates, it's simultaneously driving insurers and health care providers to increase price transparency. Because the law's pricey regulations are either driving employers to push more benefit cost sharing onto employees...
Published: Monday, February 16th, 2015 @ 4:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's now been one month since Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina went public with its health care cost estimator tool. Regardless of whether you have a BCBS card, anyone can now compare average costs for more than 1,200 procedures in just about any zip code across the state...
Published: Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 @ 9:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vidant Medical Center’s President Steve Lawler was recently appointed vice-chairman of the North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council by Gov. Pat McCrory. Lawler’s term will expire Dec. 31, 2016.
Published: Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 @ 7:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced appointments to the North Carolina Statewide Impaired Driving Task Force today.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 4:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina can help prevent unnecessary increases in health care costs by repealing a 35-year-old law that has failed to address that goal. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report delivers that verdict.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 @ 5:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In response to inquiries, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed today that it has suspended the license of a medical clinic in Asheville, N.C, which specializes in abortions.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 @ 11:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A bill intended to reduce medical-related lawsuits and expenses stemming from the state's certificate of need process and to make it easier for private
Published: Saturday, May 11th, 2013 @ 10:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. John Torbett, R-Gaston, last week failed to persuade the House Regulatory Reform Committee to loosen up the state's certificate of need law - the statute...
Published: Saturday, April 6th, 2013 @ 12:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Choice Grocery has moved a crucial step closer toward opening a store in Holly Springs. Residents tired of long drives to North Raleigh and Cary have been seeking a nearby grocer for over a decade.
Published: Friday, September 28th, 2012 @ 12:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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