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Nov 06, 2024 General News

Love and compassion: Cuddling, Santa, and community at the Cape Fear Valley Medical Center NICU

When Mike and Marcia Garrett made their way to Fayetteville in the summer of 2015, they only expected to be here for two years. Mike had been a pastor at a church in Atlanta for 12 years, and the Garr...
Love and compassion: Cuddling, Santa, and community at the Cape Fear Valley Medical Center NICU
Nov 07, 2024 General News

Cape Fear Valley Health to host Medicaid enrollment event in Harnett County

Cape Fear Valley Health to host Medicaid enrollment event in Harnett CountyLILLINGTON, NC – Jan. 8, 2024 – Cape Fear Valley Health, in collaboration with First Source, will host a free in-person ...
Cape Fear Valley Health to host Medicaid enrollment event in Harnett County
Dec 02, 2024 General News

State grants $14 million for new operating room

Cape Fear Valley Medical Center was grateful to receive $14 million in state funding this budget cycle for renovations and expansion of the hospital’s operating room environment. Specifically, the fun...
State grants $14 million for new operating room
Dec 02, 2024 General News

Smart choices

Hip and knee replacement surgeries just became more precise with the help of a smart robotics machine that assists surgeon Anthony Parker, DO, at Harnett Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine.“The k...
Smart choices
Dec 02, 2024 General News

Care for the elderly

Since 1952, Bladen County Hospital has operated as a good Samaritan, assisting the people of the community and surrounding area with a personal touch and dedication that’s not as easy to find in big c...
Care for the elderly
Dec 02, 2024 General News

A Love that Saves

It happened without warning when Larry Pitts went into cardiac arrest last July. An Army veteran who had  kept active and in decent shape, Pitts, 63, had finished a little yard work with his wife...
A Love that Saves
Dec 02, 2024 General News

Celebrating life

When Mayra Draughn was a new nurse, she witnessed a moment that has stuck with her throughout her career: the pain a patient’s death caused their loved one.“I remember there was the sweet elderly man,...
Celebrating life
Dec 02, 2024 General News

Learning together

Last spring, Cape Fear Valley’s internal programs for training nursing assistants experienced a first when it graduated two family members together: Delia Kempton and her son, Dathan Kempton.“It was i...
Learning together
Dec 02, 2024 General News

Growing care

Zari Cain-Akbar, DO, seems to be a long, long way from home when you consider she was born and raised in the little Bayou town of Athens, Texas, near the Trinity River. She was born into a family that...
Growing care
Dec 02, 2024 General News

Taking his time

All those years ago, Herman Lewis could see potential abounding in one studious Bladen County seventh grader.“With some students, you just know,” Lewis said. “Something about his demeanor or personali...
Taking his time