UNC Health and Duke Health are expected to announce a partnership to build a 500-bed children's hospital in the Triangle, people familiar with the arrangement tell WRAL. It would be the first standalone children's hospital in the state.

The facility, called “N.C. Children’s,” was characterized as a “decade-long goal” for both institutions and is expected to lessen the strain on other regional facilities amid increased demand for care.

President Trump issued a directive temporarily halting communications, meetings and purchases related to federal health care research grants.

The Triangle's preeminent healthcare systems announced a partnership to help advance a $2 billion children's health campus in North Carolina.

Two of the world’s top academic health systems are right here in North Carolina, and they are uniting to create something special. UNC Health and Duke Health

UNC Health and Duke Health are partnering to build a new children's health system that will include North Carolina's first freestanding pediatric hospital, the pair announced Tuesday. | The academic health systems' vision,

UNC Health and Duke Health announced a collaboration to raise funds in order to build a flagship children’s hospital in the Triangle.

The health systems announced on Tuesday a plan to build a more than 100-acre campus for the hospital called, NC Children’s.

Under a five-year agreement, Cone Health doctors and athletic trainers will provide exclusive care for athletes at the university.

North Carolina was the 40th state to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Lambeth said lawmakers in some of the holdout states have been impressed with North Carolina’s decision to pass expansion with a provision to create a workforce development program for beneficiaries.

With the start of a new long session for the NC General Assembly, here are some prominent early childhood organizations and names to know.