By Vicky Janowski, posted Feb 11, 2021
With the recent closing of the sale of county-owned New Hanover Regional Medical Center to Novant Health, about $1.25 billion from the purchase goes to benefit New Hanover County. Overseeing that staggering amount is an endowment and board responsible for how the money is managed and where grants from interest earnings will go into the community.
The heads of that new endowment board of directors spoke on Thursday s BizTalk to answer questions about what happens next, what an endowment of this size means for the Cape Fear region and the latest on a push to diversify the board. (For the application for two additional board seats to the board, go to the New Hanover Community Endowment s website here.)
The blaze happened in a duplex at 1011 S. Lincoln Ct. around 8:20 p.m. Monday.
Upon arrival, WPD officers Kyle Petrone and Bradley Speight attempted several times to break down the apartment s steel door with the help of a citizen on the scene. While attempting to get inside, they also broke windows to try and let thick smoke out of the apartment to locate possible victims.
Petrone also reached through a window to try and unlock the door, but it was too hot to touch, according to a release from WPD.
The officers continued to kick the door in until they could gain entry, where the two WPD officers and a New Hanover County Sheriff s Office deputy found an unresponsive 39-year-old female victim on the floor with severe burns, the release stated.
This year, dozens of mothers who wouldn’t otherwise have had access to a doula will receive personalized, hands-on help from doulas and other community health workers before, during, and after their babies are born.
That’s thanks to NHRMC’s Community Health Worker-Doula Program, which officially began in January. The program, funded by a two-year grant, connects pregnant mothers to a community health worker and doulas who will help educate and serve as a support system for the moms during their pregnancies and for up to a year after they give birth.
The program will primarily serve Black mothers in New Hanover, Pender, and Columbus counties, whose babies die more often than do babies born to white or Hispanic mothers. If a Black baby is born underweight which is more likely to happen to Black infants than it is to white infants that baby is almost four times more likely to die.
Wilmington police are searching for a suspect in an early morning stabbing.
According to a press release from the Wilmington Police Department, just before 3 a.m. Tuesday, officers responded to the 3600 block of Sir Galahad Lane in reference to a physical dispute that resulted in a 22-year-old female victim being stabbed. The victim was transported to New Hanover Regional Medical Center with non-life threatening wounds.
According to the press release, Destiny Marie Mathes, 21, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is encouraged to contact the Wilmington Police Department at 910-343-3609 or use the Wilmington, NC PD app for anonymous methods.