‘We’re beating this’
It sounded like a burglar alarm.
Cindy Little was at her former church in Charleston, South Carolina, when she heard it. She wasn’t sure where it was coming from, but she knew something was up.
Category Archives: Stories of remarkable care
Finding purpose in a pandemic
The patient couldn’t breathe. He had come into the emergency room still able to speak. Then, all of a sudden, he was slipping in and out of consciousness. It all felt like a dream. But somewhere in that dream, he knew Amanda Chilton would do whatever it took to save him.
Right place, wrong job
Debbie Daniels has been part of Novant Health since she was 16 years old. She started in accounts payable. Her mom worked in that department and helped get Daniels a part-time job that she kept through high school and as she went off to college at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Infection prevention in the time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic may have taken the world by storm in 2020, but Heather Ridge has been preparing for this moment her entire career.
‘Leaders are made in moments like this’
When you ask Rob Stumbo about the most poignant moment in his nursing career, he takes you back to 2018.
‘There’s always room to give back’
Since the global pandemic took hold in the U.S., there has been an outpouring of support for front-line healthcare workers. People have purchased pizzas for hospital staffers. They’ve made face masks by hand. They’ve written messages of gratitude and hope in sidewalk chalk.
Defying the odds
When Bradley Hill was born, doctors told his family he wouldn’t live past the age of 5. He was born with spina bifida, a condition that occurs when the spine and spinal cord do not form properly in the womb. At birth, he also had a cleft palate and lip and hydrocephalus, more commonly referred to as water on the brain. His prognosis, doctors said, wasn’t good.
Hard choice for parents on the front line: work or stay home? Here’s how Novant Health is helping
When schools shut down in Stokes County, Christina Mabe was left in a difficult position. Mabe’s job is essential: She is a registered nurse managing patients who may have suffered strokes, pulmonary embolisms or blood clots and who are now on the Coumadin blood thinner.
For newly minted nurse Savannah Hayes, COVID-19 is a ‘baptism by fire’
On Good Friday, Savannah Hayes drove into work at the COVID-19 screening center at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center with a basket of eggs in the seat next to her.
Caring for those who care for us
What happens when a critical care nurse on the front lines of COVID-19 is also a mother to a son with special needs.
Funding Highlights
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$10,684,263
Presbyterian Medical Center Foundation
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$223,357
Brunswick Medical Center Foundation
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$376,867
Thomasville Medical Center Foundation
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$3,113,153
Forsyth Medical Center Foundation
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$2,610,643
Rowan Medical Center Foundation
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$2,223,588
New Hanover Regional Medical Center Foundation
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$6,737,196
Grants
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$1,053,827
System Initiatives
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$27,022,894
Total Giving
- * 2023 Data