March 31, 2016
Seth Glickman, MD, associate professor, emergency medicine, director, Office of Population and Value Care, has been named President and Executive Medical Director of the UNC Health Alliance.
March 30, 2016
Each year, UNC Health Care administers the CMS-approved Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CG-CAHPS) survey to solicit feedback from patients. One question on that survey asks patients if they would recommend their provider's office to friends and family. One hundred and thirty three of our providers had more than 94 percent of their patients respond “Yes, definitely!” to that question, which places them in the top quartile nationally.
March 23, 2016
The Board of Directors of Lenoir Memorial Hospital in Kinston, NC, has unanimously voted to pursue exclusive negotiations to create a management services agreement with UNC Health Care, hospital officials announced Wednesday, March 23.
March 17, 2016
March 15 was a day of recognition and celebration as Chatham Hospital, in collaboration with UNC Health Care, opened the UNC Chatham Park Medical Office.
March 3, 2016
Nicoleta Constantin is part of a generation of Romanians that found opportunities outside of Romania after the fall of communism. In her life in the United States, she has performed groundbreaking biochemistry research in the lab of Duke Nobel Prize winner Paul Modrich, but she found her calling when she became a pediatric nurse at North Carolina Children’s Hospital.
January 28, 2016
2015 W-2s are now available online via Document Self Service for UNC Hospitals, Chatham Hospital, and UNC Hospitals-paid Faculty Physicians & staff employees. Log in using your UNC Health Care account credentials. If you chose not to authorize electronic W-2 delivery, your W-2 will be printed and mailed to your home address via the US Postal Service on/before Jan. 29.
January 28, 2016
I am extremely pleased to announce that Cathy Madigan has accepted the position of UNC Hospitals' Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and Senior Vice President position effective Feb. 1, 2016.
January 14, 2016
FreedomPay is the cashless way to pay at the UNC Hospitals' cafés. Please review the different ways you can fund your FreedomPay account (both free funding options and the Platinum Service, which costs $2.50 each month once a Credit Card is used).
December 16, 2015
Wayne Memorial Hospital’s Board of Directors voted Dec. 15, 2015, to authorize its executive committee to sign a Management Services Agreement with UNC Health Care. Although no formal agreement has been signed, both parties expect to have a formalized plan in place in the near future.
July 6, 2015
For many older adults, emergency departments can be difficult to navigate. Kevin Biese, associate professor of emergency medicine and internal medicine at UNC, and Jan Busby-Whitehead, professor and chief of geriatric medicine at UNC and director of the UNC Center for Aging and Health, share these important steps you can take to help the older adult you are caring for get the care they need and deserve.
June 11, 2015
A number of improvements to the referrals process in Epic@UNC will go into effect June 14, 2015. Most notably, the priority status of referrals has been standardized across Epic@UNC, with stat orders requiring a phone call from the “referred from” department within one day and urgent orders requiring a phone call from the “referred from” department within two days.
May 28, 2015
Scrubs and Beyond now offers online purchasing of UNC Hospitals uniforms and gives UNC Hospitals employees a discount.