Technology, engineers help Spruce Pine fast-track storm recovery.
Nov 26, 2024 · Days after the storm, Sen. Ralph Hise (R-Spruce Pine), who represents Mitchell County, told NC Health News there were no quick fixes to restoring the wastewater treatment plant. “We’re hoping to find some sort of solution that’s temporary … tanks, technology, holdings,” he said. “We see pictures of them and those kinds of …
Docs who ditched Atrium now partnering with private equity
Oct 9, 2024 · By Michelle Crouch. Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger. Six years after breaking away from Atrium Health to build Charlotte’s largest independent physician practice, the doctors at Tryon Medical Partners are teaming up with a private equity firm in a move they say will help them reach more patients.
N.C. House passed bill funding child care centers for three months
Nov 20, 2024 · The N.C. House of Representatives passed a bill late Nov. 19 that includes a measure to allocate more than $33 million in funding to extend grants for child care centers to help them stay afloat as previous state funding runs out.. Senate Bill 382 now goes to the Senate, where it’s expected to pass the Republican-dominated chamber easily.
Clinician teams did ‘rewarding’ work in WNC after Helene - North ...
Nov 25, 2024 · By Jaymie Baxley. After the remnants of Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on western North Carolina’s health care infrastructure, the N.C. Office of Emergency Medical Services deployed nine multidisciplinary teams of clinicians to waterlogged communities where residents were cut off from providers.. It was a complex undertaking that required the state to set up mobile treatment centers, medical ...
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Mission Health permanently shutters Asheville Specialty Hospital. By Andrew R. Jones Asheville Watchdog Mission Health has permanently closed Asheville Specialty Hospital, the only long-term acute care hospital in western North Carolina, less than two months after suspending its services following Tropical Storm Helene.
Asheville Specialty Hospital won't reopen | NC Health News
Nov 30, 2024 · Scott Joslin, once director of Mission’s hospitalist program, currently works at the Asheville VA but served as medical director of Asheville Specialty from January through September 2022. “It is a big deal,” Joslin said of the closure. “Having a long-term acute care hospital provides the western North Carolina area with a site where patients who have been ill for a very long period of ...
More than a medical school - North Carolina Health News
Oct 2, 2024 · Future phases of the project call for more research buildings, a hotel, multifamily housing and street-level retail. The Ledger/NC Health News recently toured the construction site with Atrium and Wexford representatives and chatted by phone with an administrator at the Wake Forest University Medical School.
Whooping cough cases spike in N.C. | NC Health News
Dec 3, 2024 · By Jennifer Fernandez. Whooping cough cases in North Carolina have risen sharply in 2024. There have been close to 600 reported cases — 6.4 times more than last year at this time.. Nationally, cases are 4.8 times higher, federal data shows. The highly contagious respiratory illness tends to rise and fall in cycles as vaccines wear off and new children are born without immunity, experts said.
Mental health providers want to help WNC after Helene disaster
Oct 10, 2024 · Crisis numbers and support groups. The Disaster Distress Helpline is a national multilingual hotline that offers crisis counseling 24/7. Call or text: 800-985-5990. Para Español: Llama o envía un mensaje de texto 1-800-985-5990 presiona “2.” National suicide and crisis lifeline: call or text 9-8-8 anywhere in the United States 24/7 for help and local resources.
Aftermath of Helene making western NC survivors sick
Nov 9, 2024 · The number of patients at the hospital is lower than average, according to Kruta, but more patients are staying longer than usual. “There are a lot of people who cannot be discharged from the hospital into a nursing facility, because those rehabs don’t have potable water or space,” Kruta said.