Press Releases

CHARLOTTE, N.C. ― Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center, Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center, Novant Health Matthews Medical Center, Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center and Novant Health Rowan Medical Center were recently awarded the five-star North Carolina Maternity Center Breastfeeding-Friendly Designation by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. The designation is based on the World Health Organization’s Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, which support initiation, exclusivity and continuation of breastfeeding.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.― Novant Health has named Erik Helms as the new senior vice president and chief payor performance officer. In addition to leading the business development and sales team, he will oversee Novant Health’s payor relationships and lead the system’s pricing strategy. Helms will report to John Gizdic, executive vice president and chief business development officer, Novant Health.

Health system provides relief to team members and community during COVID-19 pandemic WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Novant Health today announced audited financial results for the year ending December 31, 2020. Novant Health reported net income, also referred to as excess of revenues over expenses, of $382.2 million on operating revenues of $5.68 billion. This compares to a net income of $523.5 million on operating revenues of $5.43 billion in 2019. Operating expenses rose 4.1% in 2020 to $5.49 billion.

Funding will provide equipment, COVID-19 supplies, vaccinations and translation services CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Foundation has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation to fund immunizations, translation services and COVID-19 infection prevention supplies aboard the Novant Health Community Care Cruiser. Community cruiser team members provide health care services to public health priority areas where underserved children and their families live, worship and attend school. The 40-foot mobile unit is equipped with two examination rooms, a laboratory area, health education area and intake desk.  

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Novant Health, a not-for-profit health care system serving the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia, is adding two new members to the board of trustees: Brian Eckel and Jason Thompson. Both Eckel and Thompson were members of the Partnership Advisory Group, a 21-member group of hospital board of trustee members, physicians and members of the New Hanover community charged by the county and New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) to determine the future of NHRMC. They will serve as representatives for the Novant Health Coastal Region board of managers and will attend their first meetings in May 2021.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Novant Health is proud to announce that Angela Yochem, executive vice president and chief transformation and digital officer, has been inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame from IDG’s CIO. She is one of 11 to receive the award this year. This prestigious honor is bestowed upon a select group of outstanding executives and visionaries who have had a significant impact on the IT profession. Yochem will accept her award at the CIO 100 Symposium & Awards in August.

MOCKSVILLE, N.C. — Novant Health will host a COVID-19 vaccination event at the Davie Family YMCA on Wednesday, March 24, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. 

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Foundation has been awarded a $22,000 grant from the Colon Cancer Coalition through money raised at the Get Your Rear in Gear event in Winston-Salem. The new partnership between Forsyth Medical Center and Colon Cancer Coalition will fund colonoscopy screenings for low-income, underserved colorectal cancer patients in Forsyth County. The Colon Cancer Coalition has collaborated with Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center in Charlotte each year since 2011.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – As COVID-19 cases continue to decline in our communities, Novant Health is adjusting its visitor restrictions. As of Monday, March 15, at 8 a.m., most adults and children hospitalized at Novant Health facilities in North Carolina will be allowed to have two visitors per day. Restrictions remain in place for COVID-19 positive patients who are hospitalized or in the emergency room, as well as patients who are under investigation for COVID-19. Exceptions may continue to be granted in special circumstances, such as end-of-life care.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Winston-Salem State University-Novant Health Physical Therapy Neurologic Clinical Residency Program recently received full accreditation from the American Board of Physical Therapy Residency and Fellowship Education. WSSU is the first historically Black college and university (HBCU) in the nation to offer a fully accredited PT residency program.  

Grant to support evidence-based interventions to address chronic disease and obesity in Rowan County SALISBURY, N.C. – Novant Health Rowan Medical Center Foundation was awarded a $450,000 grant from The Duke Endowment’s Healthy People, Healthy Carolinas initiative to support Healthy Rowan. Healthy Rowan is a coalition of 57 individual members and 25 agencies including county and city government, public schools, faith-based institutions, local businesses and nonprofit organizations that seek to improve health and quality of life in Rowan County through broad-based interventions aimed at obesity and chronic disease. NHRMC Foundation serves as fiduciary agent for the grant, which provides $150,000 annually over three years.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.  – As part of its ongoing commitment to improve access to care for patients in Winston-Salem and the surrounding area, Novant Health announced plans to invest $222 million to develop a state-of-the-art critical care tower on the Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center campus.