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What Piqued Readers’ Interest in 2025? Six Stories of Reckonings in NC’s Health Care System

What Piqued Readers’ Interest in 2025? Six Stories of Reckonings in NC’s Health Care System

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North Carolina Awarded $213 Million for Rural Health Transformation Program

Support for Community-Based Organizations New to Medicaid

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Policy Strategies for State Medicaid Agencies to Advance Community Health and Well-Being

NC Pitches $1 Billion Plan to Overhaul Rural Health System

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The Future of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots and What it Means for Other Medicaid Programs Considering Social Needs Programs

The Future of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots and What it Means for Other Medicaid Programs Considering Social Needs Programs

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NC Budget Stalemate Deepens Strain on Safety Nets, Health System, Advocates and Providers Say

NC Budget Stalemate Deepens Strain on Safety Nets, Health System, Advocates and Providers Say

Officials Urge Revival of Program Aiding Medicaid Members, Boosting Local Economy

Officials Urge Revival of Program Aiding Medicaid Members, Boosting Local Economy

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Hope is not lost for HOP: Haywood County urges state to revive crucial funding

A statewide program that reduced Medicaid costs by improving living conditions for impoverished families has been put on pause for lack of funding, but Haywood

November 4, 2025

Investing in a Healthier North Carolina: Lessons Learned From North Carolina Medicaid Reforms

October 30, 2025

Opinion: Missing Voice in Local Food, Hunger Relief, Health Equity Conversation: Farmers

Noah Poulos Guest Opinion When people talk about hunger relief, health equity, and food systems, the farmer’s perspective is often missing. Yet farmers are at

October 26, 2025

Fragile N.C. Residents Lose Medicaid Support for Food and Housing

September 29, 2025

The Reinvention of Caja Solidaria and the Uncertain Future of Community Health in the North Carolina Mountains

August 26, 2025

Medicaid Rate Cuts Will Cost State Providers $1.1 Billion, NCDHHS Says

August 15, 2025

N.C. Speaker of the House Destin Hall speaks about the budget bill during a press conference at the Legislative Building on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in Raleigh, N.C. Kaitlin McKeown The News & Observer

NC Republicans’ ‘Band-Aid budget’ deals yet another blow to Medicaid | Opinion

When Gov. Josh Stein signed a stopgap spending bill into law this week, he called it a “Band-Aid budget,” but even that might be generous.

August 10, 2025

Medicaid Program That Provided Economic Boost to Rural NC Economies on the Chopping Block

August 8, 2025

How Providers, Health System Leaders, and States Can Work Together to Align Disparate Policy Efforts to Address Health-Related Social Needs: Learning from North Carolina

August 6, 2025

‘We’re Just Trying to Get Back on Our Feet’: Chris and Robin Ulmer’s Story and the Lifeline of HOP

August 2, 2025

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