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The new agreement integrates the two foundations under a single brand

Rural communities need Medicaid expansion now

Vidant Health and East Carolina University are combining to form ECU Health, which is launching in May. Officials unveiled a new logo for the system Thursday.

Vidant Health and the Brody School of Medicine (BSoM) will remain separate establishments but were officially clinically integrated as of Jan. 1 under the joint operating brand named ECU Health

July 30, 2021 White Coat Ceremony welcomes future physicians from across North Carolina East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine recognized the 89 incoming medical students in the Class of 2025 during a White Coat Ceremony on Friday, July 30. The ceremony signified each student’s entrance into the medical profession and the beginning of their commitment to serve others. While they will take classes at the Brody School of Medicine, each student will gain crucial experience at Vida...

East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine (BSOM) witnessed the selection of new deans, Michael Waldrum and Jason Higginson, in hopes to strengthen the collaboration among the medical school and Vidant Health Medical Center.  A press release from ECU Chancellor Philip Rogers on June 23 said Waldrum, who serves as chief executive officer of Vidant Health, will continue his role with Vidant Health in addition to his new role as dean of BSOM. The press release said Higginson will ...

COVID-19 continues to progress and local health officials say the numbers are declining, but have the fears of seeking routine healthcare and dental care subsided? According to health officials, people are neglecting their personal care because they dont feel safe stepping foot inside of a hospital, doctors office, dental office, or anywhere that has to do with seeing patients. John Gizdic, president and chief executive officer for New Hanover Regional Medical Center, said in a town hall webi...

Vidant Health’s Chief Executive Officer Dr. Michael Waldrum has been named as chair-elect of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems of the Association of American Medical Colleges. As chair-elect of COTH, Waldrum will also serve on the AAMC Board of Directors. More than ever, rural communities in America are in need of a strong advocate to help shape the future of health care delivery by strengthening academic hospitals and health systems. As the leader of a nine-hospital, n...

/ Rosalind Cornwell, standing, and Stefany Esparza, with Atrium Health’s Teammate Health, demonstrate an antibody testing session. On Oct.7, the Greensboro-based Cone Health system had 57 COVID-19 patients across their small network of hospitals. A month later that number had almost doubled. A month after that, it was up to a total of 167. And the numbers keep climbing. “We’re doing this to ourselves,” Bruce Swords, the system’s chief medical executive, told his colleagues. According ...