Cape Fear Valley is looking to fill 20 to 30 positions Saturday, including licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants and certified medical assistants.
Vaccinations in Cumberland County
The Cumberland County Health Department will administer vaccinations Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Crown Expo Center at 1960 Coliseum Drive.
The Health Department will hold a special clinic Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Cape Fear Valley Health system COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic administers COVID-19 vaccines at the Cape Fear Valley Rehabilitation Center Auditorium from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Appointments are encouraged. Appointments can be made on the Cape Fear Valley website, capefearvalley.com/coronavirus/vaccine-scheduler.aspx.
Cape Fear Valley added another vaccine clinic at its Health Pavilion North location. The clinic, which is in the ExpressCare clinic at 6387 Ramsey St., is open Tuesday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. The clinic is available only by appointment through Friday.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) During a time when hospitals are seeing the tail-end of the post-holiday surge, Cape Fear Valley Health s COVID-19 unit is working around the clock to treat patients.
Sarah Moore has only been on the job at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center for around three months. The registered nurse moved back to North Carolina, with her family, during the pandemic. When you deal with this every single day and especially in the beginning, it s tiring, it s difficult, said Moore.
That s why Moore chose to join CFVMC to bring some support to a depleted and thinly stretched staff.
Cape Fear Valley Health system needs nurses, and it s willing to pay them.
The system wants to increase the number of nurses it hires by 20% this year because of COVID-19, with the hope of hiring as many as 100 nurses in the next two months.
A national nursing shortage is making it hard for hospitals to care for patients with the disease, which is caused by a highly infectious coronavirus.
More than 100 COVID-19 patients were in Cape Fear Valley Medical Center on Thursday, including 11 in the intensive care unit, a hospital spokeswoman said. Nearly 4,000 North Carolina residents are hospitalized with the disease, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services website.
WAKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) Nearly every hospital around the Triangle is kicking up efforts and trying to accommodate the rising number of COVID-19 patients as hospitalizations continue surging. Really since Thanksgiving, the waves have kind of kept rising, said WakeMed Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Chris DeRienzo.
Health care professionals are preparing to be in this fight for a bit. I don t expect it ease off for the next two weeks, said DeRienzo.
Federal data shows, on average each day last week, 25% of ICU patients at Duke University Hospital had confirmed or suspected COVID-19, compared to 22% in the previous week. At UNC-Chapel Hill and Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, 26% of ICU beds were occupied by COVID-19 patients.