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Dec 02, 2024 General News

Looking Good

A new mobile CT scanner is revolutionizing cranial and spinal procedures at Cape Fear Valley. It offers surgeons diagnostic-quality CT images of their patients’ brains and spines during surgery in the...
Looking Good
Dec 02, 2024 General News

Physician Spotlight

Vascular surgeons Robert Albrecht, MD, and Thomas Beadle, MD, have joined Cape Fear Valley Health to lead the system’s first vascular clinic. Cape Fear Valley Vascular Specialists is a new option for ...
Physician Spotlight
Dec 02, 2024 General News

Cumberland County EMS teams up to fight drug overdoses

In 2019, nearly 71,000 people died from opioid overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control andPrevention (CDC). CDC statistics say more than 70 percent of overdose deaths involve prescript...
Cumberland County EMS teams up to fight drug overdoses
Dec 02, 2024 General News

Honoring Jesse Byrd

Fayetteville lost a true advocate for cancer care this May with the passing of Jesse Byrd, Chair Emeritus of Cape Fear Valley Health Foundation’s Friends of the Cancer Center Advisory Council.For more...
Honoring Jesse Byrd
Nov 07, 2024 General News

Harnett Health to Restrict Visitation Starting Friday

Due to local positivity rates of COVID-19 reaching the highest levels seen so far during the pandemic, as well as increasing rate of COVID-19 admissions, Harnett Health System’s facilities will furthe...
Harnett Health to Restrict Visitation Starting Friday
Dec 02, 2024 General News

Renovation, automation, and new graduates bring advances to laboratory

April Maroschak is the Corporate Director of Laboratory Services, overseeing all labs at Cape Fear Valley Health hospitals. She said the renovated 3,952-square-foot lab space will feature a new automa...
Renovation, automation, and new graduates bring advances to laboratory
Dec 02, 2024 General News

“Nursing chose me”

After spending most of her nursing career in emergency departments, Susan Phelps, RN, is no stranger to staying on her toes.“It taught me to be prepared for anything at any moment,” she said. “You rea...
“Nursing chose me”
Dec 02, 2024 General News

Emmett bounces back

Back in their home state of Minnesota, Claire and Dillon McLain were high school sweethearts. After college, when they exchanged wedding vows, they knew they wanted to be parents.When the Army brought...
Emmett bounces back
Dec 02, 2024 Heart & Vascular

Listen to your heart

At 36 years of age, with a 2-month-old baby, the last thing Michelle Boyd expected was a heart attack. When she began to experience chest pains, she explained them away as nothing serious.“I convinced...
Listen to your heart
Dec 02, 2024 General News

Continuity grows

In 2018, there were 389 diabetes-related deaths in Cumberland County, according to the CDC’s multiple cause of death data. Nationally, men are more likely to have the illness as a contributing cause o...
Continuity grows