Hospitals are opening freestanding ERs, largely in the suburbs. They expand care to fast-growing areas, but critics say there ...

Between June and December 2023, the state had a net loss of 34 child care programs. In the first three months of 2024, the net loss was 41.

Gambling on college sports is now legal, but critics say it comes at the expense of the players and bettors alike.

Former Brynn Marr Hospital employees allege that the facility engaged in patient record falsification and insurance ...

As NC loses more people to overdoses — a record 4,339 in 2022 — some parents say a law change would encourage people to call ...

What to know about all the emerging options for after-hours medical care, which include urgent care, freestanding ERs and more ...

Psychiatrist Nora Dennis works to build a care farm where people with mental illness can be healed as they nurture plants and animals.

Home health care providers in North Carolina will be required to put most of the money they receive from Medicaid toward workers’ wages.

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.

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 ...

If a group of dentists, policymakers and health care analysts got their way, North Carolina would do some revamping of its oral health care infrastructure to make routine cleanings and preventative ...