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A Young Nurse Finds Fulfillment – and Recognition – Caring for Older Adults

Musser won the coveted Novant Health Daisy Award® for Extraordinary Nurses in December 2024 after receiving nominations from four patients. One called her “caring, compassionate, devoted.”

Anna Graves, a surgical technologist at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center and single mom to 5-year-old Kanai, never imagined she would need EEF support.

James Caviness is a quiet, burly man who grew up on a farm and has spent his adult life in construction. He knows the aches and pains that come with physical labor. But in the summer of 2024 he developed back pain that wouldn’t go away. Over-the-counter medications weren’t beating it back. He tried chiropractic care for a while, but that didn’t help. “I got … Continue reading Stem Cell Transplant is Getting Cancer Patient Back to Work. And Life. »

Single mom survived cancer, cared for her mother and son, then enrolled in college.

Night after night, 12-year-old Jessica Thornton watched the nurses in action. She spent a lot of time at her friend’s side as he recovered from surgery after surgery to address genetic complications.

A cancer survivor currently in treatment, Schaefer is one of 1,200 volunteers across the Novant Health system who do their best to make each patient’s morning, noon and night as beautiful as it can be.

Bridges to Health Care offer powerful opportunities.

Mobility program, a dictionary and endless grit got her on path to being an RN.

Clinical trials and a team of cancer experts that’s close to home.

Chaplain Charles “Chan” Shaver has a heart for palliative patient care.

Karen Morning Roseboro, chief officer for choice and magnet schools for Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools, is celebrating four years as a breast cancer survivor, and her journey began with her first-ever mammogram at the age of 40.

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Stories of Remarkable Care

A Young Nurse Finds Fulfillment – and Recognition – Caring for Older Adults

Because of You, Anna Had the Support She Needed to Keep Going

Stem Cell Transplant is Getting Cancer Patient Back to Work. And Life.

Cervical Cancer Patient Faced 4 Big Hurdles. She Cleared Them All.

She’ll Be Supporting Moms at New Kernersville Maternity Program

She’s a volunteer. A cancer patient. And a friend.

Health Care Internship Program Helps Students Get a Leg Up

She started in housekeeping. Now she’s almost a nurse.

Cancer Patient Becomes First Person Ever to Receive New Drug

Meeting Spiritual Needs

‘A mammogram is the gift of life’

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