Jason deBruyn

Jason deBruyn has been the WUNC health reporter since 2020, and has been in the WUNC newsroom since 2016. In his role covering health, deBruyn focuses not only on the COVID-19 pandemic, but also on disparities in health outcomes, hospital competition, social determinants of health, and the ongoing push to expand Medicaid in North Carolina. Prior to joining WUNC, he covered the business of health care and pharmaceuticals for Triangle Business Journal in Raleigh, North Carolina, an affiliate of the American City Business Journals network. His reporting roots trace to the Enquirer-Journal, a community newspaper in Monroe, North Carolina.

Articles

How I learned to scrape data and use R to reveal problems in North Carolina’s psychiatric residential treatment facilities for kids

In North Carolina, children with severe psychiatric needs often suffer in facilities unsuited to help them. A reporter shares how he learned new data strategies for shedding light on the problem.

Patient Safety and Ethics

Mental Health & Trauma

NC's 'institutional bias' favors mental health care in facilities, not communities

Part three in a three-part series investigating North Carolina's psychiatric residential treatment facilities where children with complex behavioral needs are sent for care.

Mental Health

Children & Families

What it's like to be in a youth mental health treatment facility: one woman shares her experience

Part two in a three-part series investigating North Carolina's psychiatric residential treatment facilities where children with complex behavioral needs are sent for care.

Mental Health

Children & Families

Healthcare Systems & Policy

How facilities meant to help kids with mood disorders are falling short in North Carolina

The first in a three-part series investigating North Carolina's psychiatric residential treatment facilities, where children with complex behavioral needs are sent for care.

Community Safety

Data Journalism

Profits over people: How private equity is disenfranchising children with disabilities

In some psychiatric residential treatment facilities, there is little public oversight. Even parents find it difficult to get information. A reporter wants to change that by buiding a better database.

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Jason deBruyn

Articles

How I learned to scrape data and use R to reveal problems in North Carolina’s psychiatric residential treatment facilities for kids

NC's 'institutional bias' favors mental health care in facilities, not communities

What it's like to be in a youth mental health treatment facility: one woman shares her experience

How facilities meant to help kids with mood disorders are falling short in North Carolina

Profits over people: How private equity is disenfranchising children with disabilities