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Surgical care in combat is not graded on a curve. The test is simple and unforgiving: Could a wounded soldier be saved? If so, did we save him? That standard is why the after-action review, or AAR, is so ingrained in military culture. Once an operation ended, everyone involved gathered to look back. Did we achieve the objective? Were the tactics sound? Did we make the right decisions? What mistakes were made, and by whom? Participation is demanded of everyone, and the rules a

Mecklenburg County officials on Thursday revealed that just months before a young child in Charlotte died of alleged abuse and neglect, they had screened out a call for investigation at her home earlier that year. That call was the 12th time that Mecklenburg County Social Services had received reports about Dominique Moody during her six years of life, according to records newly filed with the North Carolina General Assembly on Thursday. The 13th call was for Moody’s death. T

A group of lawmakers and advocacy groups on Tuesday called for $11 million in state funding to support local food systems, citing benefits for farmers, public health and the state’s economy. A coalition of six organizations asked lawmakers to continue to support initiatives such as “Double Up Food Bucks,” which matches federal nutrition benefits spent on fruits and vegetables, effectively doubling purchasing power for low-income families while increasing revenue for farmers.

The House Select Committee on Oversight and Reform questioned North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Devdutta Sangvai about Medicaid waste, abuse and fraud during a hearing held last Thursday. The hearing lasted three hours and focused on Medicaid fraud and abuse detection. Rep. Grant Campbell (R-Cabarrus), a physician, chaired and opened the meeting by highlighting the program’s unsustainable enrollme

A North Carolina legislator and physician on Thursday issued a scathing critique of the state’s Medicaid program, citing spiraling costs, enrollment and administrative costs and “stagnant” fraud investigations. Instead of heavily relying on data to detect fraud, North Carolina is still using tips from “whistleblowers,” Rep. Grant Campbell, R-Cabarrus, said during a meeting of the Select Committee on Oversight and Reform in the House of Representatives. “We must ask, ‘How many

A majority of North Carolinians say the uncivil discourse that’s come to dominate political debate is hurting the country, according to a new poll. A survey of 800 registered voters earlier this month found that 86% agreed with the statement, “Political debate is a healthy process, but the current tone and tenor is only dividing the county and making matters worse.” A few results from the poll were released Tuesday at an event meant to demonstrate reasoned debate. Healthier U

A statewide group that has focused on improving the health of mothers and babies since 2009 has been winding down its work since it lost state funding last October. Work has been going on behind the scenes, however, to get that funding restored, legislators said last week. “Marty [McCaffrey] and I are probably equally angry about this,” Rep. Grant Campbell (R-Kannapolis) said of the funding cut after hearing an update from Martin McCaffrey, a pediatrician and neonatologist an

Last weekend, the Rowan County Republican Party held its annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner. The lineup featured few surprising faces from the Republican side of the aisle, but party leadership reserved one big surprise for a local representative. Rep. Dr. Grant Campbell (R-Kannapolis) of District 83, which comprises parts of Rowan and Cabarrus counties, was recognized as Rowan County’s Republican of the Year. “They pulled it on me,” Campbell said this week in a phone call. “I shou

This past week, House Bill 171 was filed to ban DEI programs in state agencies. Opponents of this bill will decry the latest assault on efforts to create institutions of learning and places of work that are welcoming to all and celebrate diversity. There will be linguistic variations on the pushback, but the theme will be the same: a program with righteous intentions is threatened by others, therefore those same others cannot be righteous. It is one of the cheapest and low-ef

“Proximal control of bleeding, volume replacement, prevent hypothermia, economy of motion.” I had a habit of mumbling these principles to myself as I did the hardest part of an incoming casualty… waiting. I was standing in the receiving area of the Forward Surgical Team structure at Camp Dahlke, Afghanistan. This wasn’t remotely my first rodeo, and the reminders to myself were out of routine rather than fear of forgetting. About midway through my third, and final, overseas de

North Carolina health officials are beginning to sketch out plans for turning the first wave of funding from a new federal program into on-the-ground changes for rural communities that have long struggled with provider shortages, hospital closures and limited access to care. During a virtual town hall on Jan. 16, leaders from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services discussed the state’s recently approved proposal for the Rural Health Transformation Program. In the fe

On her sister’s deathbed, Wanda Knox made a promise: she would never put her nephew, Sharod Knox, into a care facility. That vow has defined the past two decades inside the Knox home in Kannapolis, where family members and nurses have worked together to manage his care. Every day, 46-year-old Sharod Knox relies on his nurse and on Wanda Knox, his 69-year-old aunt, to keep him breathing and fed, to monitor his ventilator, and to handle the constant routines that make staying h

A bill moving through the North Carolina General Assembly could help folks who have needed an amputation get moving again. The legislation was inspired by the experience of one North Carolina native. Reagan Perry of Raleigh is always on the go. “I don’t think people realize how much you move around in a day until you have that ability taken from you,” Perry said. But in the last eight years, how she moves has changed. Her journey began on the courts. “At 15, I was playing ten

As a young boy was dealing with the physical and psychological challenges that came with his diagnosis of severe Crohn’s disease, his mother had to fight through insurance company prior authorization hurdles to get him the medicine he needed. Linsi Franklin recounted her battles to have her 9-year-old son’s medicine approved at a news conference introducing a bill that would impose new regulations on insurance companies’ prior authorization practices. “For weeks, I would spen

North Carolina’s property tax homestead exclusion for disabled veterans would increase from $45,000 to $61,000 under a bill approved Tuesday in the House Homeland Security and Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. Currently, the first $45,000 of a disabled veterans’ assessed value of a permanent residence is exempt from property taxes. That amount was set a decade ago. Bill supporters said the increase to $61,000 is needed to offset cost-of-living increases over the last 1

Dr. Campbell was honored to be asked by Senator Tillis to be part of a community leaders roundtable to discuss mental health challenges...

Originally published in the INDEPENDENT TRIBUNE. KANNAPOLIS — Local physician, Dr. Grant Campbell has declared his intent to run for the...