Press Releases

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Novant Health has named Angela Yochem as executive vice president and chief transformation and digital officer. Yochem has served as the health system’s executive vice president and chief digital and technology officer since 2017. In this expanded role, Yochem will continue to lead digital products and services while assuming additional responsibilities related to transformational growth initiatives for the system.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Kim Henderson has been named as an Executive in Residence for Queens University McColl School of Business. Henderson currently serves as system chief of staff to the CEO and senior vice president of executive leadership development at Novant Health. She graduated with her MBA from the McColl School of Business in 2012.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Building on its strategic partnership with SwipeSense, a healthcare technology company on a mission to eliminate harm and waste in healthcare, Novant Health is expanding SwipeSense technology for electronic hand hygiene monitoring, automated contact tracing, and real-time equipment tracking across the health system. The COVID-19 pandemic created more areas of opportunity to use technology to contain the virus. Novant Health’s use of SwipeSense creates an even stronger safety infrastructure within its facilities with real-time tracking of safety behaviors.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center (NHPMC) Foundation was awarded a $43,563.13 grant from Brave Beginnings, a program of the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation, to purchase a Dräger Babyleo isolette for the Novant Health Hemby Children’s Hospital (Hemby) neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The isolette provides the newest technology available to increase infant survival rates and ensure prompt delivery of care to NICU infants.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The Hearst Foundations recently awarded a $125,000 grant to Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Foundation to support Family Connects, a postpartum nurse home visit program in Forsyth and Davidson counties. The program provides free home visit services to all Forsyth County and Davidson County mothers and newborns who deliver at Forsyth Medical Center or Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center. Since 2016, the program has provided support for thousands of mothers and babies and connected families to nurturing community resources.

WINSTON-SALEM AND CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Novant Health, UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine have reached an agreement to expand medical education, research and clinical services to Novant Health facilities and other locations across North Carolina. This partnership will expand the recently approved relationship between these organizations in New Hanover County to include Mecklenburg, Forsyth and other counties, with an additional focus to find innovative solutions to enhance care in rural areas.

Masking and social distancing can help limit the spread of COVID-19 and influenza Nov. 17, 2020 – As we head into the busy holiday season with COVID-19 cases on the rise, several leading North Carolina health systems are urging the public to be diligent about the precautionary measures that are known to help limit the spread of COVID-19. The same techniques are also effective in limiting the spread of influenza.

Winston-Salem, N.C. – Novant Health recently announced an adjustment to its current minimum wage from $12.50 per hour to $15 per hour. This change benefits more than 2,000 team members and will be effective January 2021.

BOLIVIA, N.C. – Novant Health Oceanside Family Medicine - Leland relocated to 501 Olde Waterford Way in Leland, North Carolina. The clinic is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Winston-Salem, N.C. ― Novant Health is proud to be named as a recipient of several Diversity Impact Awards held by the Association of ERGs & Councils. The Diversity Impact Awards are the only national, annual awards that honor groups and individuals who lead diversity and inclusion efforts within their organizations and demonstrate results in their workforces, workplaces and marketplaces.

BOLIVIA, N.C. – Novant Health is pleased to welcome Dr. Corina Pogodina to Novant Health Family Medicine Pine Forest in Oak Island, North Carolina. Pogodina joined the clinic in October and is accepting new patients.

Partnership continues work to close health equity gaps; enabled quick launch of COVID-19 response in most vulnerable communities CHARLOTTE, N.C. – One year after the first Novant Health Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinic opened its doors in west Charlotte, North Carolina, a second location will provide vital access to primary and preventive care to individuals in the North End community, including those who are uninsured or underinsured.