NEW HANOVER COUNTY — While many families will gather around the Thanksgiving table to partake in a feast, there are some Cape Fear residents who are food…
Food-insecure patients at Novant Health’s New Hanover Regional Medical Center can now receive food pharmacy boxes from a new partnership with Food Lion
Medical providers and pharmacists engaged in illegal prescriptions are on notice with a June 30 launch of the New England Prescription Opioid Strike Force.
The mission is to “identify and investigate health-care fraud schemes in New England to effectively and efficiently prosecute individuals involved in the illegal distribution of prescription opioids and other controlled substances,” according to a joint press release.
NHRMC Physician Group Primary Care practices will start administering Covid-19 vaccines. (Port City Daily/File)
SOUTHEASTERN NC NHRMC Physician Group Primary Care practices have opened Covid-19 vaccine appointments for their patients 75 years and older, according to a press release from New Hanover Regional Medical Center.
The physician group has the vaccine available at multiple offices and locations, including New Hanover Medical Group, Coastal Family Medicine, NHRMC Physician Specialists Internal Medicine Specialists/Care Team, Wrightsville Beach Family Medicine, Pender Primary Care, and Jacksonville Primary Care.
New Hanover County Health and Human Services (NHCHHS) will provide 1,950 doses to start.
“By transferring a portion of our vaccines to the hospital, it will further Public Health’s efforts to get the vaccine to some of the most vulnerable in our community, as quickly as possible,” said Donna Fayko, director of NHCHHS.