Some local older adult communities are under new management or preparing to be, including Carolina Bay at Autumn Hall and Bradley Creek at Carolina Bay in Wilmington. The management of Carolina Bay and Bradley Creek, located off Eastwood Road, is transitioning from Liberty Senior Living to Cogir Senior Living effective Oct. 1, said Madison Alewel, Liberty Heal ...

Wilmington Health’s main facility, located at 1202 Medical Center Drive, is part of a pending sale-leaseback deal.  The healthcare provider plans to sell the property, which includes more than 6 acres and a 66,000-square-foot building, in a sale-leaseback transaction. The property was listed at $11.85 million. According to Wilmington Health CEO Jeff James, ...

Atrium Health has purchased 65 acres bordered by Military Cutoff and Crooked Pine roads in New Hanover County as part of its planned expansion into the region, according to a deed recorded Aug. 12. The deed shows a purchase price of $16.4 million for three tracts at 1308 Crooked Pine Road and 1718 Crooked Pine Road from TDR-HL LLC. The site is a triangular tract of ...

Community members and health system officials gathered in the Arboretum Education Center Thursday for a public hearing on competing applications from three major healthcare providers vying for acute care beds in New Hanover County.  In June, Atrium Health, Novant Health and UNC Health submitted proposals to the state to build hospitals in the Wilmington area. The a ...

State and local health leaders highlighted the Wilmington region’s rapidly expanding healthcare infrastructure at the Greater Wilmington Chamber of Commerce’s Healthcare Summit on Tuesday. While N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Devdutta Sangvai, the summit's keynote speaker, did not comment directly on the three-way battle betw ...

Three major healthcare systems are competing for permission to develop acute care beds in New Hanover County, and the public hearing for the review cycle will take place on Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Arboretum Education Center, 6206 Oleander Drive in Wilmington. Those wishing to offer public comment may sign up in person beforehand and will be called upon at random. ...

Novant Health is seeking state approval to add a freestanding emergency department in Hampstead under the state’s certificate of need (CON) process, according to a news release. The 24/7 emergency department would be built on land near the intersection of U.S. 17 and N.C. 210 in Hampstead, the release stated. “Novant Health is investing in the needed heal ...

UNC Health and Wilmington Health are taking steps to bring a potential comprehensive oncology program to Wilmington, with state regulators granting an exemption for the project's medical office building as another part of the project is under review. The two healthcare providers applied in June for the ability to establish a positron em ...

Hundreds of New Hanover County residents submitted letters supporting UNC Health’s proposed hospital, including some independent healthcare providers and former Novant Health employees.  The comments were submitted ahead of a public hearing on the projects, scheduled for Aug. 20 at 1 p.m. in the meeting room of the Arboretum Education Center.  Three h ...

When Kara Kenan was diagnosed with breast cancer at 35 and told she would need radioactive chemotherapy, all she can remember is that she couldn’t get the song Radioactive by Imagine Dragons out of her head. “Often, when patients are first diagnosed, you have to realize that their capacity is completely overwhelmed,” Kenan said. “Many times, the ...