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The UNC Health and Duke Health systems are partnering together to create North Carolina’s Children’s Health campus.

The heat wave that hit North Carolina this week brought record highs—and an increase in heat-related hospital visits. Here's what doctors are recommending to stay safe the rest of the summer.

Despite closures at other rural hospitals across North Carolina, the labor and delivery unit at UNC Health Chatham is a recent addition.

UNC Down Syndrome Clinic in Chapel Hill is for children and adults. The clinic provides access to critical care that people with Down syndrome need.

North Carolina's Children's health campus is only dedicated to children through a partnership between UNC Health and Duke Health systems.

Duke and UNC Health follow WakeMed’s steps by restricting access to visitors under 12 years old, among other precautions.

North Carolina Surgical Hospital is the single largest addition to UNC Hospitals' campus in 72 years.

Advocates say North Carolina's mental health care system would improve by providing more care in community and home-based settings. But an "institutional bias" in the state means that likely won't happen for years, or even decades.

The North Carolina State Health Plan board of trustees will consider dropping coverage of GLP-1 medications like Wegovy and Saxenda. The plan currently covers more than 24,000 people with a prescription for weight loss.

A North Carolina hospital network is referring transgender psychiatric patients to treatment facilities that do not align with their gender identities. Though UNC Hospitals' policy discourages the practice, administrators say a massive bed shortage is forcing them to make tough decisions.