As the new legislative session begins, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expect healthy debate about Medicaid expansion, mental health care, abortion and other issues.
At Thomasville’s Pine Ridge nursing home, reaction to a January ice storm showed that corporate owners Principle Long Term Care had allowed such poor planning that residents were left in immediate jeopardy, state officials said. The owner of dozens of North Carolina nursing homes, Principle had far too few employees operating the site and was employing an administrator who didn’t use the place’s disaster plan.
The Daily Yonder Psych Nurses Want Freedom from Old Law Putting Their Practices at Risk Psychiatric nurse practitioners are helping fill the huge gaps in mental health care across the state. But North Carolina’s law tying them to a physician has put some of their practices and patients in jeopardy.
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Senator Ralph Hise along with colleagues including the legislature s four elected nurses introduces the SAVE Act during the 2021 legislative session in an effort to give advanced practice nurse practitioners more autonomy. (Photo: Taylor Knopf)
Olehonna Lynch started Pembroke Center for Wellness in 2010 because she wanted people in her home community to receive the best mental health care possible.