If this self-sufficient hospital cannot stand alone, can any public hospital survive?
If Wilmington’s self-sufficient medical center cannot stand alone, can any public hospital avoid being subsumed into the large systems that economists say are helping propel the cost of American health care ever upward?
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In America’s health care system, dominated by hospital chain leviathans, New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, is an anomaly. It is a publicly owned hospital that boasts good care at lower prices than most and still flourishes financially.
Nonetheless, New Hanover County is selling the hospital to one of the state’s biggest health care systems. The sale has stoked concerns locally that the change in ownership will raise fees, which would not only leave patients with bigger bills but also eventually filter down into higher health insurance premiums for Wilmington workers.
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Counties, hospitals, point to state software as vaccine choke point
Software doesn’t do things called for in state contract, locals upset over clunkiness, data lag.
State computer system slowing down vaccines By N.C. Watchdog Reporting Network | January 28, 2021 at 9:35 AM EST - Updated January 28 at 7:07 PM
Early this week, simmering frustrations boiled over with a multi-million-dollar system the state of North Carolina bought to track vaccine administration.
“The COVID Vaccine Management System (CVMS) is burdensome and ineffective, creating an unnecessary bottleneck in the delivery of vaccines,” the state’s hospital association said in a letter to Gov. Roy Cooper. “Speed to improvement has been slow.”
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Stone Theatres at The Pointe 14 has come back to life after being closed for nearly a year due to COVID.
The New Hanover Regional Medical Center has utilized a shut-down movie theater in Wilmington to distribute COVID-19 vaccines.
The Pointe 14 General Manager Steve Sherwood said his friend, the hospital s Vice President of Facility Services Tom Walsh, reached out to him to get the process started. We knew if we wanted to vaccinate larger amounts of people we needed a bigger space to have the biggest impact, said Mike Melroy, the hospital s pharmacy director. It s been a really great thing for NHRMC and the community. We have received very positive feedback from the community, folks are happy to have access to an easy and central location with great parking.