A medical imaging company has filed paperwork in North Carolina’s highest court criticizing state regulators and Duke Health for their legal strategy in a certificate-of-need dispute. Duke and the state Department of Health and Human Services challenge the state Court of Appeals’ September 2023 decision to affirm a CON ruling favoring Pinnacle Health Services. Pinnacle needed the CON to operate a magnetic resonance imaging scanner in Wake Forest.
Going viral in the context of a hospital is almost never a good thing. And this week Duke Health and its medical school went viral in a way that certainly made a few administrators sick to their stomachs, as the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro revealed disturbing DEI-related policies at the North Carolina health provider. One...
A national report card on hospital patient safety has ranked North Carolina in third place among hospitals in the U.S. that had mostly “A” ratings when it comes to patient safety, up from sixth place this past spring.
The state Court of Appeals has ruled 2-1 against state health care regulators and Duke Health in a fight over a certificate of need in Wake County. The decision allows a medical imaging company to add an MRI scanner in Wake Forest.
One of the latest legal battles over North Carolina’s certificate-of-need regime involves a fight in Durham County between two of the region’s major health care providers. At stake are 40 new hospital beds and two operating rooms.
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.
A new report released by North Carolina Treasurer Dale Folwell Wednesday shows that CEOs across North Carolina’s nine largest hospital systems doubled their paychecks in less than five years, half the time than previously thought.
A recently released report by a nonprofit organization says it’s a mixed bag when it comes to North Carolina hospitals complying with a federal price transparency law put in place two years ago.
Editor’s note: Graphic language The debate around childhood gender transitions has become a cultural flashpoint in 2022. Arkansas, Alabama, Arizona, and Texas passed bans on youth gender surgeries and hormone treatments — with 15 other states considering such bans — while California and New York are considering laws making themselves places of “refuge” for youth...
A report released Wednesday by N.C. State Treasurer Dale Folwell shows how seven of the largest hospital systems in North Carolina profited from billions of COVID relief funds and Medicare payments. North Carolina State Health Plan and the National Academy for State Health Policy analyzed the audited financial statements of the hospital systems and compiled the...
As the controversy over vaccine mandates grows, public officials’ animus for the unvaccinated is resonating among social justice activists. On Thursday, July 29, Gov. Roy Cooper announced that while the statewide mask mandate would still expire at the end of the month, his administration was focused on increasing vaccinations and was implementing a verification, masking,...
