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One in five families in North Carolina is in medical debt collections. NC Treasurer Dale Folwell will host a public hearing on the Medical Debt De-Weaponization Act at the AB Tech conference center Wednesday, September 7th from 5:30 to 7:15 pm in Asheville.

Recently, Mission Health broke ground on the new behavioral health facility in Asheville.The $62 million facility was part of Mission Health’s deal when…

A hospital at the western end of North Carolina is expanding psychiatric services through a pilot program that is the first of its kind in the…

As Mission Health announced its sale to HCA for $1.5 billion dollars, Western North Carolina’s other major hospital system, Duke LifePoint, is going…

It’s a new year, and for many people, that means new fitness goals. BPR’s Jeremy Loeb checked in at the local YMCA to see how things were going.Maybe your…

It's a testament to modern medicine. Death rates from heart disease around the nation have been cut in half. But new research sheds light on the wide...

Preliminary numbers show 8.8 million people bought health insurance plans through the federal exchange this year nationwide. That’s 96 percent of last...

Last week, the Warren County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to lease the empty building of the former Warren Community Health Clinic to a...

This is the last week to sign up for health insurance through the exchange. More than 209,000 people in North Carolina have enrolled as of the first...

The former Warren Community Health Clinic in Warrenton sits empty and quiet, across the parking lot from the county health department. Until last year,...