When they unveiled their plans, the room was crammed with hundreds of people —a stunning turnout for their home in rural Appalachia. Juanita Colvard knew many of these people lost someone. Her own best friend died of breast cancer in her 50s. Another woman watched her father and two brothers die of kidney failure. And most blamed the health care...
Struggling rural hospitals are in luck. Gov. Roy Cooper has signed the rural hospital loan program into law. Senate Bill 537 creates a $20 million loan program, which will funnel taxpayer dollars to distressed rural hospitals. The program will operate under the University of North Carolina and the N.C. Local Government Commission. The money for...
More foreign-born doctors educated in the U.S. are seeking visa waivers to practice medicine in North Carolina. But health care professionals say federal rules must be changed to help plug physician gaps in medically underserved areas of the state. That was among topics discussed Friday at the first of six public meetings the N.C. Department...
ALBEMARLE — An eager crowd of bundled-up observers assembled early Jan. 17 in a vacant lot, huddling with government officials as steam from their coffee cups curled into the air. They attended a groundbreaking ceremony at Pfeiffer University for a $16 million Center for Health Sciences, expected to be completed by May 2020. Eventually 200...
RALEIGH — In today’s Friday interview the John Locke Foundation’s Donna Martinez discusses the Community Practitioners Program with North Carolina Medical Society Foundation CEO Bob Seligson. The interview aired on Carolina Journal Radio (click here to find the station near you).
