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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is ironic that most of the same people and commissioners who are now expressing so much concern about Vidant closing the Pungo District Hospital are the same people who were Vidant's cheerleaders when we were trying to decide whether Vidant or Community Health Systems would be best for Beaufort C
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 7:37 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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The people DownEast, specifically in the eastern portions of Beaufort County north of the Pamlico River and those in Hyde County are being faced with a double whammy - the loss of the inpatient facility at Pungo Hospital in Belhaven and the loss of a reported 127 jobs.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2013 @ 8:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Recently, there has been a buzz about what is to become of Pungo District Hospital, now that Vidant Health, who served as a "White Knight" in 2011 and which may have extended the life of that Hospital, may be looking to cut its losses and close the facility.
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 11:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Gladys Flores Sala, age 88, a resident of Autumnfield of Belhaven, died Thursday, December 13, 2012 at Vidant Pungo District Hospital in Belhaven.
Published: Monday, December 17th, 2012 @ 12:23 am
By: Announcements
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