Alex Olgin
WFAE
Charlotte, NC, United States
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Despite Complaints About Long Work Days And Confrontational Therapy, A Drug Rehab Still Operates
Therapy sessions that last 50 hours. Sessions that involve garbage bags, screaming even getting sprayed with water to stay awake. Jason Pulliam testified → Read More
Complaints About Long Work Days And Confrontational Therapy Plague Rehab Facility
Therapy sessions that last 50 hours. Sessions that involve garbage bags, screaming, even getting sprayed with water to stay awake. Jason Pulliam testified → Read More
At These Rehabs, Patients Work To Pay For Care
When you work, you expect to get paid, right? But not for participants who work while getting sober at a type of substance abuse rehabilitation facility in → Read More
Governor Creates Paid Parental Leave Policy For State Employees
An estimated 56,000 state employees will now be able to take paid parental leave. Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order Thursday granting eight weeks → Read More
Networks Of Trauma Survivors Help Patients With Recovery
It’s been a violent 2019 in Charlotte. There have been 50 homicides, including last week’s shooting at UNC Charlotte that killed two and injured four. As → Read More
UNC Charlotte To Decide What To Do With Building Where Shooting Took Place
Officials at UNC Charlotte are not yet sure what will be done with the building where a shooter opened fire last week. The Kennedy building is now locked → Read More
Howell And UNC Charlotte's Quick Response During Shooting Praised
In the midst of tragedies there are heroes, often they are the first responders. But CMPD Chief Kerr Putney said there was no bigger hero in Tuesday night → Read More
Lawmakers Again Consider Bill To Protect Consumers From Surprise Medical Bills
Lawmakers are again trying to address a practice known as surprise billing. It occurs when a patient goes to an in-network hospital but at some point → Read More
Even In A Mental Health Crisis, Options Limited For Those On 'Waiver' Wait List
When it comes to serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome, there are the haves and have nots. The → Read More
Blue Cross Announces Deal With Cambia, Northwest Insurer
The largest insurance company in North Carolina is expanding. Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina announced it’s merging with Cambia Health Solutions, → Read More
Blue Cross To Refund Customers After Not Spending Enough On Medical Costs
North Carolina's largest health insurer will send money back to about 700,000 customers to comply with a provision in the Affordable Care Act. → Read More
How a mother started her own vaccine campaign to get rates up
Kim Nelson started the group South Carolina Parents for Vaccines after learning that religious exemptions from required vaccines were way up in her community. → Read More
A Parent-To-Parent Campaign To Get Vaccine Rates Up
Kim Nelson started the group South Carolina Parents for Vaccines after learning that religious exemptions from vaccine requirements were way up in her community. → Read More
Fear, Confusion About Immigration Change Leads Some To Forego Medical Benefits
Prince Ramirez’s baby is due in a week. She and her husband have a name picked out. “Oyuki Selene” Ramirez, originally from Mexico, now lives in Charlotte → Read More
SC Supreme Court Ruling Clears The Way For Piedmont Medical Center's Fort Mill Hospital
A South Carolina Supreme Court decision may end a nearly 15-year legal battle to build a hospital in Fort Mill. Piedmont Medical Center CEO Mark Noscaka → Read More
A Parent-To-Parent Campaign To Get Vaccine Rates Up
A mother in Greenville, S.C., was startled by how many parents were opting not to immunize their kids, so she started her own group to counter misinformation about childhood vaccinations. → Read More
Fans And Vendors Fill Uptown This All-Star Weekend
T-shirts, buttons and shoes are just some of the basketball gear people are buying and selling in uptown Charlotte for this NBA All-Star Weekend. The game → Read More
State Chooses Insurers For Medicaid Privatization
Medicaid patients in North Carolina will soon be able to choose among insurance companies. The state health department announced the insurers Monday in → Read More
Doctors Say They're Leaving Novant For Group With A 'Patient-First Philosophy'
The physicians leaving Novant Health say they're joining a private practice with a similar 'patient-first philosphy' to their own. The now 42 doctors → Read More
Novant Health Releases Details About Departing Physicians
Novant Health released details about the 41 physicians leaving the health system. Doctors from Lakeside Family Physicians and Huntersville OB/GYN will be → Read More