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Jaymie Baxley

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Southern Pines
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Covers:  Crime, Courts, Law Enforcement, Public Safety, Justice, North Carolina
Reporter and lifelong North Cackalackian covering rural health and Medicaid for @nchealthnews. Previously: The Pilot, The Robesonian and The Daily Courier.

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Jaymie Baxley’s Biography

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Jaymie Baxley is an award-winning multimedia journalist based in North Carolina. He currently covers crime, public safety and general news for The Pilot newspaper in Southern Pines.
Baxley previously worked at The Robesonian in Lumberton, N.C. He covered arts and was the newspaper’s Features editor.
Before that, Baxley worked as a general assignment reporter for The Daily Courier in Forest City, N.C. His byline has also appeared in a handful of national publications.

Articles

State budget advances plan to reopen Martin County hospital

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By Jaymie Baxley Verified
| North Carolina Health News Verified
Key Takeaways The state budget includes a combined $40 million for a plan by ECU Health to restore emergency department services in Martin County, which has been without a local hospital since 2023. Under the health system’s proposal, the erstwhile Martin General campus would become North Carolina’s first Rural Emergency Hospital — and the first closed facility in the nation to be reopened through the federal designation. ECU Health says more investment is needed to fully implement its plan.
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NC’s first full budget since 2023 reflects transformed health policy landscape Original

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By Jaymie Baxley Verified, Rose Hoban Verified, Ashley Fredde Verified
| Blue Ridge Public Radio Verified
A lot has happened in the world of health care since September 2023, the last time the North Carolina General Assembly passed a comprehensive budget bill. The state was flush with leftover federal pandemic aid dollars that year. Additionally, the Biden administration sent the state a $1.6 billion bonus for agreeing to expand Medicaid. That made it possible for lawmakers to add more than $835 million in mental health spending to the 2023-24 budget plan.
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NC’s first full budget since 2023 reflects transformed health policy landscape

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By Jaymie Baxley Verified, Ashley Fredde Verified, Rose Hoban Verified
| North Carolina Health News Verified
Key takeaways: Federal changes under H.R. 1 are reshaping state spending on Medicaid and SNAP. The state will face steeper Medicaid and SNAP cost-sharing burdens in coming years as federal funding responsibilities shift to North Carolina. After nearly a year without funding, the budget allocates just $25 million to resume the Healthy Opportunities Pilot — far less than the $80 million regional organizations requested.
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Awards

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North Carolina Press Association

2015 - Arts and Entertainment Reporting

Third place award in daily division for an article about a Hank Williams impersonator.

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North Carolina Press Association

2018 - Arts and Entertainment Reporting

First place award in non-daily division for an article about a gay high school couple’s appearance on MTV’s “Promposal.”

North Carolina Press Association

2018 - Best Video

First and second place awards in non-daily division for separate news videos produced for The Pilot.