Press Releases

WINSTON-SALEM -- The Duke Endowment recently awarded a $390,000 grant to Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Foundation to provide advance care planning assistance for people facing chronic and serious illnesses. The grant will support Novant Health Choices and Champions® advance care planning facilitators who help people verbalize what matters most to them, identify their health care goals and name a health care champion. A health care champion is someone a person trusts to speak for the individual if that person is unable to make his or her own medical decisions.  

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – G. Patrick Phillips, a member of the Novant Health board of trustees, is among the 2022 class named for Modern Healthcare’s Excellence in Governance award, a program that recognizes healthcare organization board members who help foster advancement in culture, mission and performance.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Novant Health has contributed $750,000 to Senior Services’ Creative Connections Capital Campaign to build a new Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness at 2895 Shore fair Drive in Winston-Salem. The new center, which will serve as an expansion of their Elizabeth and Tab Williams Adult Day Care Center, will help meet the daily needs of older adults living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia through interaction, arts and creative focused activities involving all generations.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – To improve access to care for patients in Winston-Salem and the surrounding community, Novant Health recently introduced a new Novant Health Community Care Cruiser with a special ribbon-cutting ceremony at Novant Health Today’s Woman OB/GYN in Winston-Salem. The 38-foot-long community care cruiser is part of Novant Health’s long-standing commitment to advance health equity for all patients. The new cruiser will help to remove barriers to care by improving access to routine screenings, chronic disease management and referrals to specialty care clinics and other social services.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Novant Health today announced audited financial results for the year ending Dec. 31, 2021, reporting $812 million of net income, or excess of revenues over expenses, on operating revenues of $7.4 billion.

Novant Health, one of the largest health care systems in the Southeast, today announced the launch of a new business division designed to innovate and support scalable solutions for some of the health care industry’s biggest challenges.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.  – In efforts to support mothers around the clock, Novant Health has expanded its current lactation program by providing private, one-on-one video consultations between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. daily. The on-demand, virtual lactation consultations will connect families who need overnight support with a lactation expert so patients can share concerns, ask questions and get advice with little to no wait.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – As COVID-19 levels have declined in our communities, Novant Health today announced it will begin to adjust visitor restrictions. The new visitation policies detailed below will go into effect Wednesday, Feb. 16.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Novant Health and construction firm Robins & Morton reached structural completion at the new Novant Health Ballantyne Medical Center and Medical Office Building on Feb. 14.  

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Novant Health announced today that with the help of 1,271 volunteers, more than 203,700 vaccine doses have been administered at its greater Charlotte market vaccination sites – Baldwin Midtown Charlotte, Huntersville and Salisbury – marking a one-year milestone in the community.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., – Following weeks of high demand for testing amid the Omicron surge, Novant Health is partnering with Ottendorf Laboratories, an independent lab provider, to increase access to COVID-19 testing at its primary testing sites in Charlotte and Winston-Salem. With this partnership, staffing will transition from Novant Health to Ottendorf Laboratories, which will also conduct the tests of samples. Ottendorf Laboratories’ support of Novant Health’s testing operations is made possible by funding from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. 

WILMINGTON, N.C. – The trauma center at Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center has recently been verified as a level II trauma center by the American College of Surgeons. While New Hanover Regional Medical Center has had a level II trauma designation from the North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services (NCOEMS) since 1989, this additional verification achievement recognizes the trauma center’s continued dedication to provide optimal care for injured patients.