Rose Hoban

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Prairie

Founder and Executive Director at North Carolina Health News

Founder of NC Health News, now in our 13th year!! Formerly @ WUNC. Tweeting health news from/ about NC. RN, MPH in policy. Obsessed with data, evidence.

Articles

NC Senate budget plan filled with health care policy initiatives

1 week 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.
RFK Jr.’s federal health department cuts sow confusion, uncertainty and fear in North Carolina

2 weeks ago | northcarolinahealthnews.org | Rose Hoban |Rachel Crumpler |Taylor Knopf |Grace Vitaglione

When federal health officials announced late last month what top officials called a “dramatic restructuring” of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the department’s secretary, claimed: “Over time, bureaucracies like HHS become wasteful and inefficient even when most of their staff are dedicated and competent civil servants.
Reports From the Field: North Carolina's Global Health Connections

3 weeks ago | ncmedicaljournal.com | Rose Hoban
Disability advocates, families push lawmakers for more services, funding

4 weeks ago | northcarolinahealthnews.org | Rose Hoban

It takes some serious logistics to get Erica Conway from her home in Buncombe County down to Raleigh so she can make the rounds of the state legislative complex in her hot pink wheelchair. Conway, 35, had a traumatic brain injury when she was 16 years old. Since then her mom, Rebecca, has cared for her — with help. Erica’s new caregiver, Darlene Epley, was only in her first week of work when they drove down to attend an advocacy day earlier this month.
Hoban: Amid flu deaths in N.C., warning signs already for next year

4 weeks ago | ashepostandtimes.com | Rose Hoban

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A Conversation with Rose Hoban, Executive Editor of North Carolina Health News

1 month ago | ncmedicaljournal.com | Rose Hoban

IntroductionLong before COVID-19, the journalists of North Carolina Health News were among the few still dedicated to covering health care, health policy, and public health with a state and local focus. A changing media environment and consequent budget cuts had led to layoffs at most local newspapers around the country, and it became increasingly rare to find a reporter whose sole job was to cover health news and its impact on communities.
Ten years on, there’s still no way to track kids in NC’s child welfare system online

1 month ago | northcarolinahealthnews.org | Rose Hoban

After tens of millions of dollars and nearly a decade of false starts, the state Department of Health and Human Services is finally poised to roll out caseload software designed to assess and track children monitored by the state’s child welfare system. The April rollout will come more than five years after the state Division of Social Services tried a different software system that was so glitchy it inspired howls of protest from county social service directors.
After delays, tracking kids in welfare system starting

1 month ago | journalpatriot.com | Rose Hoban

After tens of millions of dollars and nearly a decade of false starts, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is finally poised to roll out caseload software designed to assess and track children monitored by the state’s child welfare system. The April rollout will come more than five years after the N.C. Division of Social Services tried a different software system that was so glitchy it inspired howls of protest from county social service directors.
Hoban: Will the kind of research that saved my life still be funded in the future?

1 month ago | ashepostandtimes.com | Rose Hoban

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Student conference focuses on AI and DEI in health care

1 month ago | northcarolinahealthnews.org | Rose Hoban

As artificial intelligence becomes widely used in health care, researchers studying the technology warn that it’s a tool that requires constant monitoring and revision. “You always need a human in the loop, particularly in health care,” Fay Cobb Payton, a NC State University professor emeritus, said last week.