Laura Nelson works with pediatric patients by day; in her spare time, she hikes to support children’s cancer research. Charlottesville, VA & Bethesda, MD – April 25, 2017 – Back in 2012, nurse Laura Nelson was worried that she wouldn’t be able to handle transferring from a rehab unit to a pediatric unit. Despite being […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. April 24, 2017 – New Hanover Regional Medical Center and the NHRMC Foundation would like to thank the NHRMC Auxiliary for a generous donation of $25,000 to support a beautification project at the medical center’s main entrance. The entrance is being redesigned in conjunction with the medical center’s 50th anniversary celebration in June. […]
GREENSBORO, N.C. April 20, 2017 – Novalis Certified demonstrates Cone Health Cancer Center’s commitment to quality and safety when delivering precision radiation to treat cancer. Cone Health Cancer Center at Wesley Long Hospital is the first cancer center in North Carolina to become Novalis® Certified. The certification means the radiosurgery program at Cone Health meets […]
Duke Health and WakeMed Agree to Collaborate on Cancer Care in Wake County DURHAM, N.C. April 20, 2017 – Duke Health and WakeMed Health & Hospitals have announced the signing of agreements to create Cancer Care Plus+, an innovative cancer care collaboration that will serve the growing cancer care needs of patients in Wake County. […]
National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI-Wake County) and others will help create a landscape art installation of colorful irises to raise awareness of mental illness. RALEIGH, N.C. April 19, 2017 – The volunteers will install the display on Saturday, April 29, for several hours beginning around Noon on the Raleigh campus of UNC REX Hospital, […]
Two groups recommend the drugs, but diverge on who needs them and when DURHAM, N.C. April 18, 2017 – Dueling guidelines for the use of statins to prevent cardiovascular disease have fed confusion, but this much is now known: If all doctors followed advice from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, 9 million fewer adults […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (April 18, 2017) — WakeMed Health & Hospitals and Duke Health have signed a joint operating agreement to establish Cancer Care Plus+, a shared cancer care collaboration that will serve the growing cancer care needs of patients and provide the highest quality cancer care consistent with Duke’s renowned cancer program and WakeMed’s surgical […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. April 18, 2017 – New Hanover Regional Medical Center marked the completion of a two-year renovation to its main campus Emergency Department today at a dedication ceremony for staff and employees. “Our expansion and renovation offers patients more privacy, comfort and efficiency than ever before,” said Christy Spivey, NHRMC administrator of emergency services. […]
One-on-one therapy eliminated PTSD diagnoses for almost half of trial participants DURHAM, N.C. April 17, 2017 – Although both group and individual therapy can ease post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in active-duty military service members, individual therapy relieved PTSD symptoms better and quicker, according to a study led by a Duke University School of Medicine […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. April 17, 2017 – New Hanover Regional Medical Center has earned an A grade from The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health care system, for spring of 2017. Leapfrog assigns A, B, C, D and F letter grades to more than 2,600 hospitals […]