Ongoing growth is the prognosis for Novant Health’s activities this year in the Cape Fear region, a top official at Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center said in a recent interview. Construction continues on its largest current project, Scotts Hill Medical Center, a three-story, 250,000-square-foot community hospital with a surgical focus. The overall ...

In 2023, net operating revenues were more than $2.1 billion for Novant Health in the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), according to a recent news release from Novant. Novant Health bought New Hanover Regional Medical Center, previously owned by New Hanover County, in 2021. In the tri-county region, the giant health care provider also owns Novant Health Bru ...

A report released by the North Carolina Health Talent Alliance provides a snapshot of trends in the Cape Fear Region’s health care workforce. Survey responses from health systems, hospitals and clinics in the Wilmington area show the region’s 28% open position rate for registered nurses is higher than statewide levels and the churn rate for medical assistant ...

A company has acquired Wilmington-headquartered Trial Management Associates, a clinical research firm. Headlands Research, a multinational network of clinical trial sites, announced the acquisition in a recent news release but did not disclose financial details about the transaction. With the addition of TMA, the Headlands Research network now includes 21 sites ...

Lower Cape Fear LifeCare is opening the first free-standing palliative medicine clinic in Southeastern North Carolina, according to a news release. The clinic, 2250 Shipyard Blvd. at the intersection of Independence and Shipyard boulevards in Wilmington, will "provide expert support for people with serious illness," the release stated. It will serve patie ...

A year has passed since the official launch in Wilmington of the first pilot program of a statewide initiative tasked with finding top talent for a shrinking health care workforce. Known as the N.C. Health Talent Alliance, the public-private collaboration brings together the NC Chamber Foundation and the NC Center on the Workforce for Health to create a talent pipeline ...

Medical students recently began using the new Novant Health Simulation Lab in Wilmington to train in mock operating rooms. The lab was set up in a renovated two-story former bank near Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center’s South 17th Street campus. It includes the mock OR, a viewing area for observing teaching physicians and space for simulations that ...

This year, the Greater Wilmington Business Journal’s Health Care Heroes Awards returns front and center at Cape Fear Community College’s Wilson Center.   Finalists for this year’s awards will be honored at the awards event on Nov. 1. Winners will be announced, and a special lifetime achievement honor will be bestowed.   They are this year&rs ...

“Life has taught me the importance of listening and really hearing what people need to say. Kindness is paramount,” said Bonnie Jeffreys Brown, this year’s recipient of the Health Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award. The award honors Brown’s 40 years as executive director of the New Hanover-Pender County Medical Society, from which she retired ...

Honors an individual or team who successfully implemented a program addressing a problem in health care administration, delivery or community outreach.   HEALTH EQUITY TEAM ORGANIZATION: Lower Cape Fear LifeCare WHAT A NOMINATOR SAID: The work of the Lower Cape Fear LifeCare Health Equity Team, supported by a New Hanover County Endowment grant in 2023, “ ...