A year has passed since the official launch in Wilmington of the first pilot program of a statewide initiative tasked with finding top talent for a shrinking health care workforce. Known as the N.C. Health Talent Alliance, the public-private collaboration brings together the NC Chamber Foundation and the NC Center on the Workforce for Health to create a talent pipeline ...

Medical students recently began using the new Novant Health Simulation Lab in Wilmington to train in mock operating rooms. The lab was set up in a renovated two-story former bank near Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center’s South 17th Street campus. It includes the mock OR, a viewing area for observing teaching physicians and space for simulations that ...

This year, the Greater Wilmington Business Journal’s Health Care Heroes Awards returns front and center at Cape Fear Community College’s Wilson Center.   Finalists for this year’s awards will be honored at the awards event on Nov. 1. Winners will be announced, and a special lifetime achievement honor will be bestowed.   They are this year&rs ...

“Life has taught me the importance of listening and really hearing what people need to say. Kindness is paramount,” said Bonnie Jeffreys Brown, this year’s recipient of the Health Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award. The award honors Brown’s 40 years as executive director of the New Hanover-Pender County Medical Society, from which she retired ...

Honors an individual or team who successfully implemented a program addressing a problem in health care administration, delivery or community outreach.   HEALTH EQUITY TEAM ORGANIZATION: Lower Cape Fear LifeCare WHAT A NOMINATOR SAID: The work of the Lower Cape Fear LifeCare Health Equity Team, supported by a New Hanover County Endowment grant in 2023, “ ...

Honors an individual whose job performance is considered exemplary by people within their organizations, peers and community members. ANDRES AFANADOR TITLES: Medical Director/Clinical Assistant Professor         ORGANIZATION: Novant Health New Hanover Medical Group-Autumn Hall/UNC School of Medicine WHAT A NOMINATOR SAID: “Dr. Andres ...

Honors an individual or team behind a new scientific discovery, procedure, treatment or device that can save lives or improve the quality of life for a large number of people. TAYLOR BAZEMORE TITLE: Doctor ORGANIZATION: Novant Health Heart & Vascular Institute         WHAT A NOMINATOR SAID: Atrial fibrillation is the most common type of ...