Legislation would require retirement communities to increase their financial reporting and transparency — new rules experts ...

Reversing trend of NC rural women’s health care services drying up will require tracking, enforcement and incentives in ...

Josh Stein, budget, tax cuts, health care, child care, health workforce, Healthy Opportunities, shortages, working families, ...

He founded the Preventing Tobacco Addiction Foundation in 1996 and began to push for state legislatures to raise the tobacco sales age. At first, he had scant success. But in 2003, a town in ...

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Financial pressures on rural hospitals keep some North Carolina facilities from adequately serving pregnant women, new mothers and babies, but that isn’t the full picture. Workforce shortages and ...

As the mental health crisis for adults and kids worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ivy Bagley decided to go back to school for one more certification. A nurse practitioner for 17 years, Bagley saw ...

Lawmakers approved millions for computer software to track child welfare cases in 2015, but there’s still little to show for it.

The bipartisan task force will release an interim report in June, Stein said, along with a more robust report by the end of the year.