- Teaching resilience in hurricane-battered southeastern North Carolina
Resilient Columbus, part of the Columbus County Partnership for Children, works to help communities better understand trauma. Read more - Surge in COVID cases is taking toll on Bladen EMS workers
The staff of Bladen County EMS are exhausted after 18 months of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Read more - Rural North Carolina hospital leader emerges as outspoken critic of COVID ‘noise’
Joann Anderson, president and CEO of UNC Health Southeastern in Robeson County, has emerged as a Facebook-posting, say-it-how-it-is advocate for COVID vaccines and a fighter against misinformation, conspiracy theories and political divides.Read more - Pastor keeps faith despite losing father, brother and son who died from COVID in 18 days
Pastor Jerome Bullard of the Bridge of Life Church in Leland, N.C., conducted the funerals of his father, brother and son, all of whom died from COVID within a span of 18 days in late July and August. Read more - Hospital gets mobile morgue as COVID deaths surge in southeastern North Carolina
UNC Health Southeastern has set up a mobile morgue to handle the increasing number of patients dying from COVID-19, the medical center’s top leader said Saturday. Read more
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Journalism For The Greater Good in Bladen, Columbus, Robeson & Scotland Counties
