Staff cuts have driven up patient-care profits at Mission Hospital in Asheville after HCA Healthcare acquired the facility.

Abortion providers work to meet current demand, scramble to accommodate a looming surge of out-of-state patients as Florida’s six-week ban takes effect.

The state is investing in a wider range of mental health crisis supports, including those run by people with lived experience of mental illness.

While rural areas train and retain primary care providers better, the growing demand for healthcare still outpaces the supply of doctors.

Under a new federal rule, home health care providers in North Carolina will be required to put most of the money they receive from Medicaid toward workers’ wages. The policy, issued by the Centers for ...

Now that Gov. Roy Cooper has checked expanding Medicaid off his gubernatorial to-do list, he has shifted his health care focus to the needs of North Carolina’s most vulnerable — the young, the old and ...

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 ...

The French Broad River is one of the state waterways threatened by plastic pollution, according to French Broad Riverkeeper Hartwell Carson. “Today, the amount of single-use plastics in the French ...

Ingles Grocery store is one of the retailers that environmental organizations in Western North Carolina are calling on to stop carrying single-use plastic bags. Credit: Will Atwater ...

There’s an old saying that age is just a number. But when you look at the state demographer’s projected growth of the 65-and-older population in North Carolina over the next decade, that’s more than ...

On Earth Day, people gathered at Silverline Park in Woodfin, N.C. to listen to hear local leaders talk about efforts reduce single-use plastics in their communities. Credit: Will Atwater ...

Seven months after a provision added to the 2023-24 North Carolina state budget prohibited municipalities from establishing single-use plastic bag ordinances, a group of Western North Carolina ...