Already Hoke County is suffering from a shortage of physicians, according to the North Carolina Office of Rural Health. With even fewer doctors, patients may have to drive for hours to get the ...

For residents of rural North Carolina, quality health care can seem nonexistent. Let alone affordable. Now, one of the only ...

North Carolina's longstanding Certificate of Need (CON) laws, in place since 1978, are at the center of a heated legislative ...

In what NC officials describe as “abrupt and immediate,” the Trump administration announced it would take back $11.4 billion in funding to public health agencies.

Provisions in the senate budget would repeal NC’s hospital capacity regulation laws, trim vacant state jobs and increase ...