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RALEIGH — An assisted living center in Wake Forest won a temporary reprieve from a judge today that allows the 80-bed center to postpone a shutdown and move of all resident Story continues here >>>

Huntersville staff, officials and residents are concerned about the traffic impact that a proposed psychiatric hospital at N.C. 115 and Verhoeff Drive will have. Story continues here >>>

Nothing can bring back a lost life – not that of Adarrin Jonte Washington, who died in a van following his involuntary discharge from Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, nor that of Andre Walker, a mental patient who died after being placed in a choke hold by security guards. But Cape Fear Valley is in several respects a better hospital for its recent exertions.

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued formal notice to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center on Jan. 3 of the agency’s intent to terminate funding. The move follows a December visit where inspectors found violations at the facility that regulators said threatened the safety of patients. The federal agency issued a similar “immediate jeopardy” notice in October after an autopsy determined a 27-year-old man with mental illness was choked to death in April by hospital police and security officers while being restrained in the facility’s emergency room. Story continues here >>>

RALEIGH, N.C. — The father of a mentally ill inmate says his son was mistreated at Central Prison in Raleigh last year, and he is asking for the North Carolina Department of Correction and his son’s warden to be held criminally responsible. Story continues here >>>

State human services regulators are shutting down Wake Forest Care Center today. The assisted living center has a long history of violations including several involving the separate deaths of two residents who wandered off unattended. Story continues here >>>