The COVID-19 vaccine is in the building. We have vaccine in-house, said Dr. West Paul, chief clinical officer at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, during a call with reporters on Thursday. It s in our freezers now.
A shipment of 2,925 doses of the vaccine, made by the Pfizer pharmaceutical company, arrived at the hospital Thursday morning, Paul said. He added that hospital workers could begin receiving vaccinations as soon as today or maybe early tomorrow (Friday) morning.
By tomorrow afternoon, he said, between 50 to 75 hospital employees will have gotten the vaccine, with much higher numbers of employees getting vaccinated each day after that and in the days to follow.
A Northside Food Co-op is being planned for the Northside of downtown Wilmington. It will host its first community event on Monday, Dec. 21. (Port City Daily/File)
WILMINGTON It’s a conversation that has been going on for quite a while now: When is an affordable grocery store coming downtown?
Local community members and organizations have banded together to bring the Northside Food Co-op one step closer to reality.
On Monday, Dec. 21, a pop-up lunch will be hosted by the Northside Food Co-op, along with organizations Feast Down East, Nourish NC, Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC, LINC Inc, Wilmington Compost Company, Willowdale Urban Farm and Catch Restaurant. Chef Keith Rhodes of Catch will serve homemade vegan jambalaya and bread for free.
By Scott Nunn, posted Dec 18, 2020
A time of change: Officials agreed this year that New Hanover Regional Medical Center should be sold to Novant Health. (Photo by Michael Cline Spencer) With nothing less than its very future up for public debate, 2020 already was stacking up as the most momentous year for New Hanover Regional Medical Center since 1967, when seven infants became the first patients at the new county-owned hospital.
Not long after its first meeting in 2019, the 21-member Partnership Advisory Group – the special committee tasked with exploring future options and a possible sale of the county-owned health network – saw its work disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fitch Ratings Inc. said Monday it has maintained a âstableâ outlook and an âAA-â rating for Novant Health Inc. as part of its latest review of the not-for-profit healthcare system.
An âAA-â is included among the second-highest bond ratings by Fitch and Standard and Poorâs. âAAâ is subdivided (in decreasing order) into âAA+,â âAA,â and AA-.â
Bonds with âAAâ-level ratings are investment grade, meaning that banks are allowed to hold them. âAAâ bonds are considered as low-risk and low-return.
Fitch said the ratings reflect Novant s solid operating EBITDA margins and solid financial performances across four markets â Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Wilmington and northern Virginia â and 15 hospitals. EBITDA stands for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. It is commonly used to measure the financial performance of for-profit businesses yet to make a sustainable pr
Bladen County Hospital employees are first in the region to receive the COVID-19 vaccine
Bladen Co. Hospital medical director receives one of first COVID-19 vaccines in the region By WECT Staff | December 16, 2020 at 8:16 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 9:44 PM
BLADEN COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - The first doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine were given to healthcare workers in Bladen County Hospital Wednesday morning. Bladen County Hospital got their shipment late last night.
Wednesday afternoon, Dr. Vicki Lanier, Medical Director at Bladen County Hospital Emergency Services, got one of Southeastern North Carolina’s first vaccines.
“I took it about 30 minutes ago and I haven’t had any problems,” Lanier told WECT’s reporter. “There haven’t been any major problems prior to today,” she added.