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North Carolina-based Atrium Health, which owns and operates Atrium Health Navicent in Macon, announced Wednesday its merger with the Midwest’s Advocate Aurora Health. ....
Officers at the Alamance County trailer park after a shootout that left two people dead April 8. Last weekend, we talked about a tale of two crises: As the coronavirus pandemic, which is still a gargantuan challenge, decreases in intensity, the gun violence epidemic one again floods into the spotlight. That was just as true last week when a mass shooting claimed six lives near Rock Hill, South Carolina, as it was this week when eight people were shot and killed at a And the gun violence hasn t been limited to mass killings that capture nationwide headlines. It s a problem that reaches nearly every nook and cranny in America, in the Carolinas, in greater Charlotte. ....
WFAE A hospital bed sits in one of the tarp-enclosed rooms at North Carolina s field hospital in Lenoir. Each room will also have a heart monitor and other medical equipment. North Carolina’s hospitals are quickly filling up with patients stricken by the coronavirus, even as health systems in some of the hardest-hit regions the Triad and greater Charlotte area take steps to make room for a wave of new patients. The looming crisis is fueled by lack of clinical staff, not by lack of physical space for beds. Health care workforce shortages have been chronic and persistent in some areas of the state, particularly rural ones. But with virtually every hospital in the state drawing on a finite pool of available providers, more than 4,000 North Carolina hospital beds are either unstaffed or were not reported to the state, data from the Department of Health and Human Services shows. COVID-19 infections in health care workers have also compounded the shortage. ....
Courtesy Atrium Health Atrium Health s Medical Director of Infection Prevention Dr. Katie Passaretti was the first to get the shot in North Carolina, Atrium said Monday. I just got my first COVID vaccine, Passaretti said. I feel perfectly fine. UPDATE: Atrium Health s Medical Director of Infection Prevention Dr. Katie Passaretti just became the first person in North Carolina to be vaccinated for COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/Le2D1iqFR2 Atrium Health (@AtriumHealth) December 14, 2020 Describing how she felt Monday, Passaretty said, Just a moment of hope, a moment of potential for change of the course that we re on with the pandemic right now. I couldn t be more excited. ....