Grace Vitaglione

2 weeks ago | archyde.com | Grace Vitaglione

Okay, hereS a rewritten and reformatted news article based on the provided text, adhering to AP style, semantic HTML5 standards, and the specified guidelines. RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina’s child care landscape is shifting as pandemic-era federal funding, which helped stabilize centers for the past year, has now expired. Providers and advocates had warned of potential closures and price increases as the funding dried up in July 2024.

2 weeks ago | northcarolinahealthnews.org | Grace Vitaglione

Child care providers and advocates spent the last year sounding the alarm about potential closures and/or price hikes when pandemic lockdown-era federal funding for child care centers dried up in July 2024. The North Carolina General Assembly passed two rounds of funding to keep the centers stabilized — until now. Those stabilization grants ran out at the end of March.

2 weeks ago | thecharlottepost.com | Grace Vitaglione |Rose Hoban

Published Sunday, April 27, 2025 6:02 pm By Grace Vitaglione and Rose Hoban | NC Health News UNSPLASH North Carolina Senate Republicans approved a bill that would roll back limits on hospital capacity and lift rates for child care subsidies among health care initiatives.

3 weeks ago | northcarolinahealthnews.org | Grace Vitaglione

North Carolinians are getting older, but there aren’t enough people getting trained to care for them. The population of people ages 65 and older in North Carolina is expected to nearly double to 2.7 million in the next couple decades. Many of those older adults will require care from doctors specializing in geriatric medicine, or doctors who are trained to focus on older adults’ ability to function and their need to balance multiple diagnoses. But there’s a national shortage of these geriatricians.

3 weeks ago | northcarolinahealthnews.org | Rose Hoban |Grace Vitaglione

The North Carolina Senate’s proposed budget for the next two fiscal years is packed with policy around new health care initiatives, including repealing North Carolina’s hospital capacity regulation laws, trimming vacant state job openings and increasing rates for child care subsidies. The spending plan — just over 1,000 pages — calls for allocating about $32.6 billion in the coming fiscal year and $33.3 billion in the next.