Maternity care units are specialized areas in hospitals that provide services to mothers during pregnancy and after, and during labor and delivery. And they are disappearing at an alarming rate, ...

Since Tropical Storm Helene hit Western North Carolina last September, Lea Charlton and her husband have had to visit Blue Ridge Regional Hospital's emergency department in Spruce Pine four times, she ...

Whether people have access to world-class health care should never depend on their ZIP code or the size of their ...

Hundreds of hospitals in rural areas are at risk of closing under proposed Medicaid and Medicare cuts, according to data from the Cecil G. Sheps Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Though patients don’t rush through the doors of this emergency room anymore, an empty hospital in Williamston, North Carolina, offers an evocative illustration of why Republican Sen.

The vacant Martin County General Hospital sits abandoned behind a chain since being closed since being closed in August of 2023 in Williamston, N.C., Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Though patients don't ...