Appalachians have a 5 percent higher incidence of malignant brain tumors and other central nervous system tumors than the rest of the U.S. That’s according to...
This is the second story in a two-part series about the sale of North Carolina’s Mission Health to the national HCA Healthcare. Read the first part of the series here. As North Carolina’s attorney general deliberates over whether to approve the sale of the nonprofit Mission Health System to for-profit Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA, a citizens group is...
On December 13, a full page ad in the Highlands Newspaper, in Highlands, North Carolina, was headlined: “Bringing a new state-of-the-art Angel Medical Center. Investing in...
Siblings Hannah and Hilary Heishman were born and raised in Moorefield, a town of some 2,500 in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle. Hannah and her husband, Kris...
Garrett County, Maryland, wins a 2017 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize for its multidisciplinary approach to a healthier community. Part of a series. Garrett...
