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Urgent Care? Hospital ED? Freestanding ED?
By Michelle Crouch With urgent cares, freestanding emergency rooms and special orthopedic and behavioral centers opening across the state, deciding where to go for a medical emergency is more complicated than it used to be, when the hospital ER was the only option. Doctors said they often get calls from friends and family members asking…
HCA pruned staff at Mission Hospital, reaped soaring profits, academic study finds
By Grace Vitaglione, Carolina Public Press Staff cuts have driven up patient-care profits at Mission Hospital in Asheville after HCA Healthcare acquired the facility, according to a draft report by Mark Hall, director of the health law and policy program at Wake Forest University. The report tracked the hospital’s profits from 2011 to 2022 and…
The rise of mega-hospitals
By Michelle Crouch When it comes to growth, it seems like hospitals can’t get enough of it. Across the country, a tidal wave of hospital mergers and acquisitions in recent years has created multi-billion-dollar hospital giants that serve large swaths of the population. For example, just in North Carolina: In all, U.S. health systems announced…
City-country mortality gap widens amid persistent holes in rural health care access
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez In Matthew Roach’s two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10 years previously in its epidemiology program, he has witnessed a trend in mortality rates that has rural health experts worried. As Roach tracked the health of Arizona residents, the gap between mortality rates of…
Fighting in the courts may lead to more care options for people with disabilities
By Anne Blythe It has been a busy few weeks in the courts for an organization that has been a staunch advocate for North Carolinians with disabilities. Disability Rights North Carolina announced a settlement agreement on Wednesday with the state Department of Health and Human Services in a long-running state court battle known as the…
Time running out to extend federal program that provides 900,000 North Carolinians with affordable internet
By Jaymie Baxley In September 2023, Sara Nichols went before the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the continuation of a federal program that has provided more than 900,000 low-income North Carolinians with help paying for internet access. Created through a sweeping infrastructure package…
