Six health systems – a mix of not-for-profit, for-profit and academic centers – are interested in New Hanover Regional Medical Center.   That’s how many organizations submitted proposals by Monday’s 5 p.m. deadline in the process local officials are using to weigh NHRMC’s future. Details from the proposals are expected to be made public ...

Area hospital foundations recently announced updates to their campaign focuses.   Citing a growing number of patients turning to the emergency room for behavioral health needs, Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center Foundation last month launched a campaign to raise $3.5 million for behavioral health initiatives to benefit Brunswick County.   The campaign, ca ...

PPD Chairman and CEO David Simmons said Thursday that the Wilmington-based contract research organization is actively monitoring the spread of COVID-19 and taking a three-pronged approach to addressing it.   First, he said, the company is establishing a pandemic committee that will set policies to ensure the safety of its colleagues and to work to contain it. Second ...

Quality Chemical Laboratories will grow its sister company in an expansion of its Wilmington-based facility, said Yousry Sayed, president and CEO of the pharma firm, on Wednesday. Quality Chemical plans to break ground on its 90,000-square-foot addition to its main building at 3220 Corporate Drive, in the Northchase Industrial Park this spring, company officials sa ...

New Hanover Regional Medical Center officials plan to put a second parking deck and pedestrian bridge in midtown Wilmington.  NHRMC will build a parking garage for employees on a South 16th Street site that is currently a surface parking lot, stated NHRMC spokesman Julian March in an email Wednesday. "In conjunction with that project, we are also planning a ...

The CEO of Dosher Memorial Hospital in the Brunswick County city of Southport steps down Feb. 28, according to an announcement Monday. Tom Siemers joined Dosher in November 2012 and during his tenure, the hospital has made significant advancements and received many state and national awards, a news release stated. Some of the hospital’s achievements under his t ...

Wilmington-based Trial Management Associates has partnered with a national company to grow its access to more clinical studies and will soon begin its first collaborative clinical trial with the firm. The local clinical research management company's partnership, which was formed last year with Mount Pleasant, South Carolina-based Elite Research Network, will expand ...

While very much a local issue, what to do with New Hanover Regional Medical Center is gaining attention from the state level.   The decision on any ownership or management overhaul of the county- owned New Hanover Regional Medical Center rests with hospital trustees and county commissioners, but it is possible that state officials could get called in depending on wh ...

The price of PPD shares rose 14.8% after the Wilmington-based company made its debut Thursday morning on Nasdaq. PPD's stock hit $31 per share in the opening. The offering returns PPD to a public company.  The opening price comes after the company on Wednesday priced its IPO offering for 60 million shares of its common stock at ...

PPD Inc.'s IPO is expected to take place Thursday, according to Nasdaq's calendar. The Wilmington-based contract research organization plans to offer 60 million shares of its common stock at a price point proposed between $24 and $27 per share, according to its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company aims to raise up to $1 ...