The Belhaven Hospital is closed, locked and being stripped of everything anyone may use to operate a hospital. Vidant the owner of the hospital business, also known as University Health Systems, presented the public with a reason.
Published: Sunday, August 10th, 2014 @ 11:25 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Stan, here is a video documenting Mayor O'Neal's walk.
Published: Friday, August 1st, 2014 @ 2:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Stan, here is a video documenting Mayor O'Neal's walk, and below are the many articles and TV stories about it so far.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 7:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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We have just recently come into possession of two new video vignettes produced by Eric Blyer and Annabel Park from their upcoming documentary on the closing of Belhaven's Pungo hospital.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 1:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Tuesday, July 22 at 12 p.m., Hyde County citizens will share their stories from the last 20 days since the hospital closed of their loved ones suffering and in one case dying waiting to be transported to an emergency room.
Published: Monday, July 21st, 2014 @ 10:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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At the Beaufort County Commissioners on July 7, 2014, Mayor Adam O'Neal promised to walk to Washington, DC to seek relief from the Federal government to keep Belhaven's hospital open with a fully functional emergency room and a 10 bed facility.
Published: Thursday, July 17th, 2014 @ 1:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant wasted no time padlocking the front door of Pungo District Hospital and covering up the signage around the building.
Published: Monday, July 7th, 2014 @ 9:47 am
By: Betty Murphy
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The latest from Belhaven, NC is not good news. After Vidant Health Inc. reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the North Carolina NAACP, a ally of Vidant Health called Pantego Creek, LLC announced that it would stand in the way of the hospital staying open.
Published: Saturday, July 5th, 2014 @ 6:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Pungo is not dead yet, but time is of the essence.
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 @ 12:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If Vidant thought their "problem child" would go away quietly, never to be seen or heard from again, that was not the case last week in Hyde County, nor will it be next year.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 5:23 pm
By: Betty Murphy
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The notification letter from Vidant Pungo Hospital President Harvey Case was short and to the point.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 12:55 am
By: Betty Murphy
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This release of news, from EMS Director John Pack, may be pertinent to the continuance of Vidant Pungo, and then again, maybe not.
Published: Wednesday, June 25th, 2014 @ 12:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Since Vidant Health announced the closure of Pungo Hospital in September, 2013, Belhaven residents have been struggling with the uncertainty of future access to healthcare.
Published: Friday, June 6th, 2014 @ 10:25 am
By: Betty Murphy
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State recreational water quality officials today are alerting the public that initial testing at a sound-side site in Beaufort County showed levels of bacteria exceeding the state and Environmental Protection Agency's recreational water quality swimming standards.
Published: Friday, May 30th, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Medical Center’s President Steve Lawler was recently appointed vice-chairman of the North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council by Gov. Pat McCrory. Lawler’s term will expire Dec. 31, 2016.
Published: Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 @ 7:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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East Carolina University has been building a workforce of teachers, nurses, artists and doctors for decades. Add another fast-growing group to the list of professionals that ECU sends out to serve the region: engineers.
Published: Friday, April 25th, 2014 @ 4:15 pm
By: ECU News Services
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After a long battle the Vidant Pungo Hospital has been given the opportunity to continue operations as a new organization. At a minimum, there will be an emergency room with other services to be determined by the new management.
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 9:07 am
By: Hood Richardson
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At a community meeting at Vidant Pungo Hospital in Belhaven, Dr. David Herman, president and CEO of Vidant Health, unveiled more details about the agreement to keep Vidant Pungo Hospital open and to transfer ownership of the hospital to the Belhaven community.
Published: Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 @ 10:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Story of America contributors Eric Byler and Annabel Park are diligently preparing a documentary pursuant to Vidant's closing of Pungo District Hospital, and we have their first two installments here.
Published: Saturday, April 5th, 2014 @ 3:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Story of America contributors Eric Byler and Annabel Park are diligently preparing a documentary pursuant to Vidant's closing of Pungo District Hospital, and we have their first two installments here.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 9:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I suppose it's a good thing that several years ago we decided on a not-for-profit company (now Vidant) to take over the Washington Hospital and subsequently seemingly everything else "medical" in the County.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 9:22 am
By: Jim Bispo
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This morning at 9 a.m. the leadership of Vidant Health, the NC Conference of Branches of the NAACP, and the NAACP Branches in Hyde and Beaufort Counties are pleased to announce that they have worked out an agreement to keep Vidant Pungo Hospital open.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 12:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This morning at 9 a.m. the leadership of Vidant Health, the NC Conference of Branches of the NAACP, and the NAACP Branches in Hyde and Beaufort Counties are pleased to announce that they have worked out an agreement to keep Vidant Pungo Hospital open.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The April 1st closing date for Vidant Pungo Hospital is rapidly approaching.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:20 am
By: Betty Murphy
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I am hearing a lot of chatter, actually criticism, about Beaufort County refusing to accept the $500,000 of so called "free money" offered to us by Vidant during the early stages of the closing of the Pungo District Hospital. Hyde County took the $250,000 offered to them.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 7:02 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Attached, is a letter that Sen. Cook sent to David Herman regarding the Vidant Pungo Hospital in Belhaven.
Published: Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 @ 11:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Health, officially known as University Health Systems, is no stranger to closing rural medical facilities. Since 2010 Vidant Health has closed three medical clinics in the following counties: Dare, Pitt and Beaufort.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:47 am
By: Betty Murphy
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In a recent piece published by American Enterprise Institute, "Let's Not Underestimate Undermatch," author Awilda Rodriguez outlines what she views as a serious problem, undermatching. She describes it as "the phenomenon where students do not attend a college or university that they could have gaine
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 5:44 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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On Tuesday, January 7, event organizers from the Darleen Flamingo 5K Run/Walk presented a gift of $18,000 to the Shepard Cancer Foundation board members, a benefactor of the proceeds from the event held on November 2, 2013.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 2:42 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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When Indian Trail Councilman David Waddell chose to submit his resignation from the council in Klingon - the fictional language of the aliens from the "Star Trek" franchise - it was just one of many unusual things going on in the bedroom community near Charlotte.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2014 @ 1:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Working together with elected officials and leaders from Hyde County, the Vidant Health Foundation today announced it will augment EMS services in the county by providing a $250,000 grant-in-aid to upgrade two medical emergency transport vehicles.
Published: Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 @ 11:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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