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by SEARCH Board member Sarah Melotte Image by Conrad Leavitt/Trillivision To address the critical issue of healthcare access in Western...

Welcome to the 4th Annual Report. Within it you'll find a review of SEARCH's projects and events focused on the communities of Mitchell...

One of SEARCH’s missions is to connect: to create bridges between organizations and make healthcare information accessible to the public....

Spring has sprouted many opportunities to engage with our community: SEARCH's Homeplace and Hog Hollow Nonprofit Night, PATH's Burnsville...

Welcome to the 3rd Annual Report. We hope you'll read about the year and find ideas and images that show our work in and for the...

Last Thursday evening more than 40 community members joined SEARCH for a postcard-writing party at Homeplace Beer Company in Burnsville. ...

Show your love this Valentine's season by advocating for affordable healthcare for all North Carolinians SEARCH encourages our...

Shockingly, North Carolina is one of only 11 states that has not expanded Medicaid. Recently, SEARCH attended a local presentation on...

In the spring of 2022, SEARCH’s Bring Summer Back Committee (BSB), which began as a collaborative partnership for fighting the COVID...

Flowers were provided by SEARCH volunteer Sandra Saunders. Autumn was barely three hours old when we kicked off our second public meeting...

RSVP to the SEPTEMBER 22 SEARCH Event HERE

Would you like to comment on the three applications that were submitted to provide 67 acute care hospital beds in Buncombe County to...

Photos by Jan Graham The June 16 SEARCH Party at the Burnsville Town Center got under way as guests mingled and enjoyed refreshments....

When: Thursday, June 16 Time: 7:00- 8:30pm Where: Burnsville Town Center (6 South Main Street, just below the Town Square) Who: SEARCH...

Recently ten SEARCHers (present or past board and committee members) met in-person in Spruce Pine with Tom Urban and Ginger Smith of the...

AG Josh Stein invited local leaders, healthcare advocates, health care providers, and elected officials to a round table in Asheville...

At their March meeting the Board of Directors of SEARCH welcomed two new members, both with valuable perspectives on rural healthcare....

Dr. Liz Peverall recently sat down with Mountain Community Health Partnership to discuss why COVID-19 vaccines are extremely beneficial,...

Even as COVID numbers are falling, a committee formed a year ago to share information and resources continues to meet virtually, and the...

Dr. Chad Smoker recently sat down with Mountain Community Health Partnership to talk about COVID-19 vaccine eligibility and safety for...

Last week, as part of the M-Y Health Matters podcast series produced by SEARCH and WKYK/WTOE Radio, Bruce Ikard interviewed Dr. Steve...

We take ambulance service for granted in our area, but do we really know how it works? You may wonder what to expect when you call 911,...

SEARCH Board Member Ed Seel recently sat down with Yancey County native Marilyn Woodby and recorded a powerful video detailing her...

Yancey County's own Sadie Kneidel was published in HuffPost on September 15th, expressing both her love of the public school system in...

This list is current as of January 10, 2022, and is subject to change as availability varies. (Email any known changes to...

The Joint Commission's Department of Research has put together a series of infographics and a short video to help put the latest numbers...

There have been many reports in various news outlets about concerns expressed about Mission Health. As a reader of SEARCH's newsletters...

Register to attend the April 7, 2021, Virtual Independent Monitor Meeting

In 2017 when we realized our local hospital was likely to lose Labor and Delivery services many of us started studying the history of how...

In recent weeks SEARCH has been showing an Infusion of Gratitude for the Nurses in our local healthcare systems for the work they have...

Our communities would like to see Labor and Delivery reinstated at Blue Ridge Regional Hospital.

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When members of SEARCH attended the Burnsville session of the Independent Monitor’s meeting to hear public comments about how things are...