A new course, first offered last semester, trains undergraduate college students to serve as hospital sitters who help keep patients safe.

Two North Carolina-based university health systems have announced an agreement to construct the state’s first standalone children’s hospital.

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 ...

UNC Health and D uke Health are partnering to build North Carolina’s first standalone children's hospital by the early 2 030 ...