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Home Health Care For Terminally Ill Children Halted
An agency in Greensboro will stop home health care services for terminally ill children, a change that affects nearly twenty families.
The home health care offered for terminally ill children is part of a program called Kids Path.
In a press release, Hospice and Palliative Care of Greensboro announced Monday it would end the service November 30th - giving just over two weeks of notice.
The community-based non-profit says home care is difficult to sustain when the volume of patients is small and the geographic care area is large. It plans to connect families with other home health care providers.
Kids Path will continue to provide pediatric hospice care, bereavement counseling, and medical case management services.
Chemical Company's Unreported Spill May Lead To Waste Ban
North Carolina regulators say they're suspending and may revoke a chemical company's key permit after it didn't report the spill of an unregulated compound.
The Department of Environmental Quality said Thursday it is moving to revoke The Chemours Co.'s permit to discharge wastewater from operations at its Fayetteville plant into a neighboring river.
Regulators say the discharge ban could come in 60 days because the company failed to report a spill last month of a precursor of the chemical GenX.
The agency said this week it was considering fining the Wilmington, Delaware-based company for failing to report the spill.
Poll Finds Demographic Disparities In Opioid Addiction Impact
One in three North Carolinians say they've been personally affected by the opioid addiction crisis, according to a new poll from Elon University.
The survey examined the impact of opioids whether of the prescription variety or the street drug heroin.
While the poll found the drug addiction crisis personally impacted about a third of respondents, some demographic trends emerged.
Younger people were more likely to say they felt an impact, and it was more strongly felt in suburban areas than rural and urban ones. White residents were almost twice as likely to report being affected than black residents.
There wasn't much difference between Democrats and Republicans, except in terms of how to address the problem. A majority of overall respondents said illegal drug use should be handled by doctors, not prosecutors.
But broken down by party, more Republicans favored using the courts compared to Democrats and independents.
NC Prisons Were Growing More Dangerous Before Deadly Attack
North Carolina prisons were already a more dangerous place to work before four employees at an understaffed prison were killed during a failed breakout attempt last month.
State prisons data provided to The Associated Press shows assaults on prison staff so far this year are already 50 percent higher than five years ago. The same period has seen a near-doubling of assaults at Pasquotank Correctional Institution so serious that employees missed work.
The prison system has meanwhile cut the number of inmates by about 3,000.
The head of the legislative committee likely to shape prison reforms said Thursday lawmakers are determined to improve safety, salaries and staffing.
4 North Carolina WWII Veterans Receiving French Honor
Four World War II veterans from North Carolina are being celebrated by the French government with a ceremony in which they'll receive that country's highest military honor.
France's top government official in the southeastern United States will bestow Legion of Honor medals to the four Friday in a gathering at the old Capitol building in Raleigh. It's all part of the country thanking service members who helped liberate France in 1944 and 1945 from the Nazis.
The honorees are John Irby III of Raleigh, Salvatore Maiello of Fayetteville, Morton Jacobs from New Bern and Robert Senter of Fuquay-Varina. Legion of Honor recipients are designated by French President Emmanuel Macron.