Two healthcare workers are dead and one has been hospitalized after each fell from hospital windows in Russia over the past two weeks.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 @ 1:54 am
By: Daily Wire
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A doctor suing to overturn restrictions on patient care just won his first victory.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 @ 6:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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At the Goshen Hospital in Indiana, however, a technician missed a step in this process, thereby potentially exposing more than 1,000 surgical patients to HIV as well as hepatitis C and hepatitis B, reported CNN.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 @ 8:52 am
By: Daily Wire
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Dale Owen has been called many things, depending on who’s talking. He’s a cardiologist with a “bullseye” on his back, who is fighting to resurrect a dinosaur: independent, doctor-owned practices.
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 @ 6:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The University of North Carolina System and Vidant Health — the eight-hospital system that holds a close relationship with East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine — have settled a months-long turf war.
Published: Sunday, October 13th, 2019 @ 4:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Vidant Health hospitals have received several American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Get With The Guidelines® achievement awards for their work in treating stroke and heart failure.
Published: Monday, July 1st, 2019 @ 2:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the Board of Trustees of Ashe Memorial Hospital presented Governor Roy Cooper with a resolution encouraging the Governor and the General Assembly to expand Medicaid.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 4:53 pm
By: Governor's Office
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State Treasurer Dale Folwell has clashed with Vidant Health in the past over state resources and State Health Plan reforms, but isn’t involved in the current battle between the hospital chain and the UNC Board of Governors over control of Vidant Medical Center.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2019 @ 10:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Vidant Health doesn’t understand why the North Carolina Senate wants to cut its funding.
Published: Saturday, June 1st, 2019 @ 11:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Stand down. Work things out.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 10:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Days after the University of North Carolina System filed a lawsuit against Vidant Health — the eight-hospital system that holds a close relationship with East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine — UNC leaders say they hope to mend fences.
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2019 @ 7:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Vidant Medical Center in Greenville has blocked the University of North Carolina Board of Governors from appointing any more members to the hospital’s board.
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 @ 5:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The NC House: Hospitals are Too Important to Fail, but Taxpayers are Unimportant to Save Them Money
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 9:39 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Today, the CEO of Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital presented Governor Roy Cooper with a resolution “urging the North Carolina General Assembly to expand Medicaid in North Carolina as soon as possible.”
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2019 @ 10:38 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The neurosurgical team at Vidant Medical Center (VMC) was ranked among the top 100 hospitals in the nation for specialized neuroscience and spine programs by Becker's Healthcare, a leading source of business and legal information for health care leaders.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2019 @ 2:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Trump was greeted by the First Lady of the Republic of Ghana, Rebecca Akufo-Addo and the Chargé d'Affaires of the United States Embassy to Ghana, Christopher Lamora.
Published: Thursday, October 4th, 2018 @ 8:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The state's largest health insurance company is removing a community hospital in Stokes County from its network after an alleged scheme to score millions in insurance revenue
Published: Monday, May 21st, 2018 @ 2:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vidant Health is pleased to announce that Jay Briley has been selected president of Vidant Community Hospitals (VCOM), effective June 1, 2018
Published: Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 @ 1:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The deaths of several newborns at a Cary birth center may complicate efforts to integrate midwives further into North Carolina’s health-care system
Published: Wednesday, March 28th, 2018 @ 12:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina doesn't have a doctor shortage. Doctors just aren't choosing to practice medicine in sparsely populated towns
Published: Friday, February 16th, 2018 @ 10:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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First Lady Melania Trump visited Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., today to visit with patients, families and staff members. The tradition of First Lady visits to Children's National dates back more than 60 years to First Lady Bess Truman.
Published: Friday, December 8th, 2017 @ 10:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Belhaven Mayor Adam O'Neal drove nearly 30 miles west from his Town of Belhaven to present the news from his hamlet on Pantego Creek, and, right now, the news is not good.
Published: Friday, January 20th, 2017 @ 9:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Beaufort Hospital will hold its annual Lights of Love Tree Lighting Ceremony Tuesday, December 6th beginning at 6:00 pm in front of the Hospital at 628 East 12th Street in Washington
Published: Friday, December 2nd, 2016 @ 2:23 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Two rural hospitals could be reopened under state legislation that includes the first substantive reform of North Carolina's certificate of need regulation.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 8:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Good Music Good Medicine," a series of performances at Vidant Medical Center (VMC) featuring faculty and students from the School of Music at East Carolina University (ECU), begins its fifth season on Tuesday, September 8.
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2015 @ 9:29 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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For the third year running, a Beaufort County Community College alumnus has been recognized by Vidant Beaufort Hospital for nursing excellence throughout the year.
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 2:31 pm
By: Barbara Tansey
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For the third year running, a Beaufort County Community College alumnus has been recognized by Vidant Beaufort Hospital for nursing excellence throughout the year.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 11:56 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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The conflict conservative legislators face between satisfying constituents and staying true to free-market principles is playing out in the debate over the scope of North Carolina's certificate of need law, a set of rules governing where a host of medical facilities - diagnostic centers, psychiatric
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2015 @ 8:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last year, Americans were shocked to learn about the widespread systematic failures of the VA, with many veterans being forced to wait months to see health care providers.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2015 @ 10:42 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Today, Senator Tillis (R-NC) sent VA Secretary Robert McDonald a preliminary series of recommendations to apply best business practices to the VA system to make it more efficient and help ensure that veterans are receiving timely and quality care.
Published: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 @ 11:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Medical Center (VMC) has received full Chest Pain Center accreditation from the national Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care (SCPC). The accreditation includes percutaneous coronary intervention, in which blocked arteries are opened to allow adequate blood flow to the heart.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 10:40 pm
By: Chris Downey
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While Obamacare continues to flood the health care sector with more taxes and mandates, it's simultaneously driving insurers and health care providers to increase price transparency. Because the law's pricey regulations are either driving employers to push more benefit cost sharing onto employees...
Published: Monday, February 16th, 2015 @ 4:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An ambulance was stolen over the weekend at Vidant Medical Center.
Published: Wednesday, January 7th, 2015 @ 3:15 pm
By: Betty Murphy
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Adam O'Neal, the Republican Mayor of Belhaven, NC, arrived in Murfreesboro, NC last night, capping off the first week of a 14-day, 273-mile walk to the nation's capital.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 11:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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