"When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours." Duke University Health System is teaming up with Durham Technical Community College to address the state ...

At one for-profit nursing home, residents waited hours for help. “What if someone’s having an emergency?” a former resident asked. “They could die.” A nationwide struggle to hire and retain caregivers ...

North Carolina Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) announced this week that it is expanding its student loan repayment ...

Across North Carolina, people like Sharod Knox are at the center of a growing crisis in home health care. Advocates warn that ...

High vacancies and turnover plague NC’s nursing industry. Cuts could further strain a workforce already stretched thin.

Less than half of nursing home residents in North Carolina are up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccines, according to the most recent AARP data from the end of October. An even smaller minority of nursing ...