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A bevy of bills before the state legislature seeks to improve how state and local agencies assist people struggling with mental health crises and related issues. They’re both promising and overdue. One of them, House Bill 786, “Enhance Local Response/Mental Health Crises,” would provide funding for pilot programs to study how local police departments could respond to nonviolent emergency calls involving mental health, homelessness, substance use or other behavioral problems, with teams that include mental health professionals. Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, is among the billâ�...

More than 100 mental and behavioral health officials have signed a petition urging the city to adopt alternative emergency responses to incidents involving mental and behavioral issues. Police presence sometimes

Wake Forest Baptist Health, provided  River Wilson spent the first 169 days of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem because he was born premature. The hospital has the region’s only Level IV NICU, which has experts who provide specialized care for babies born as young as 22 weeks gestational age, the hospital said. GREENSBORO — He came into this world a few centimeters shorter than an average-sized Barbie doll. His mother couldn’t hold him for the first month of his life. Thirty-two days to be exact. The medical te...

Forsyth County Commissioner Don Martin, a Republican, says he can’t see voting in favor of a resolution apologizing for past discrimination of Black people, nor supporting the concept of reparations. Democratic County Commissioner Fleming El-Amin likes the idea, and thinks one form reparations could take locally might be support for scholarships to Forsyth Technical Community College or Winston-Salem State University. Both commissioners talked about the topic in the wake of last week’s passage by the Winston-Salem City Council of a resolution apologizing for the city’s role in ...