RALEIGH, N.C. Local Charlotte — Three health care organizations in rural North Carolina towns, including one in Vance County, are receiving a total of $1.8 million...
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven When an independently owned rural hospital is in financial crisis, hospital leaders often say they’d be able to survive if only a big...
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven In recent years, illicitly manufactured fentanyl has tainted the supply of street drugs, leading to skyrocketing rates of overdoses and deaths. Of late,...
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Between the start of the pandemic and February 2021, rural hospitals nationwide received nearly $15 billion in federal relief dollars, according to researchers...
It was the moment the lifeless body of a 1,500-pound steer was hoisted in the air, blood pouring from its neck, that Mandela Barnes knew he...
By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Eight women — three OB-GYNs, three nurse midwives, one gynecologist and one nurse practitioner — comprise the maternity unit at Mission Hospital McDowell....
