When someone who may be having a stroke is brought by EMS to New Hanover Regional Medical Center, a specialized medical team meets the patient at the door and immediately starts to evaluate their symptoms and make decisions about the next steps of care.
That process, triggered by what’s called a Code Stroke, was launched a decade ago, and since then NHRMC has added specialists in neurointerventional surgery and been certified as a DNV-GL Comprehensive Stroke Center.
NHRMC, now part of Novant Health, continues to improve its care of stroke patients by increasing access to treatments and looking for more ways to get acute stroke patients treatments more quickly.
The Wilmington Police Department is investigating a Saturday shooting after a 26-year-old man was injured.
According to reports, the man was transported to New Hanover Regional Medical Center by a passenger vehicle. He received medical care for non-life-threatening injuries and was released from the hospital Sunday afternoon.
Police investigated the scene shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday in the 900 block of Walnut Street. ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system, assisted officers. As of Sunday afternoon, there were no suspects in custody.
According to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ dashboard, the numbers keep dropping in North Carolina as Covid cases decline and vaccines slowly creep up. Of the 10.49 million population in North Carolina, 37.5% is fully vaccinated, with 41.8% partially vaccinated.
The 65-and-older population have reached 75% full vaccination compared to 47.4% of the 18-to-64 population.
There are 995,754 Covid-19 cases in the state, and hospitalizations continue a downward trek from 815 to 763, with 12,958 deaths since Covid began. Newly reported cases have gone up since last week from 688 to 1,020. The state’s percent positivity fell from 4.7% to 3.4%.
Let’s take a look at Covid-19 data, including cases, clusters and outbreaks, and vaccinations, across the tri-county region and at New Hanover Regional Medical Center as well.
North Carolina now has 43.69% of the population fully vaccinated, with 50.3% partially vaccinated. Gov. Cooper has been making his rounds to vaccination sites…