Some North Carolina nursing homes remain without running water weeks after Hurricane Helene — leaving elderly residents unable to shower, wash their hands or flush the toilet without a bucket. The ...

A resident at a Salisbury nursing home makes her way down a hallway. Most states require minimum staffing ratios for nursing homes. North Carolina isn’t among them.

Researchers project that demand for registered nurses in home health and hospice settings could surpass the state’s supply by nearly 18 percent in 2033. North Carolina does not have enough private ...

An audit of North Carolina’s health and human services department cited problems in its oversight of nursing homes, including delays in inspections, complaint investigations and verifying corrective ...

The state currently does not have laws dictating a certain nurse-to-patient ratio, nor does it have state laws outlining how many hours per day each nurse should spend with residents. That's a problem ...

North Carolina faces an estimated nursing shortage of 12,500 workers by 2033. One projection by the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...