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Staff for Promega, a biotechnology company, research colorectal cancer inside a lab. AP PHOTO

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Novant health equity team raised the rate of cancer screenings in Waughtown last year

5:00am January 23, 2025

After finding a major health care gap in Winston-Salem's Waughtown neighborhood, a team from Novant Health spent a year increasing colorectal cancer awareness.

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COVID-19 vaccines are prepared at a clinic in Lynwood, Calif. on Friday. Oct. 28, 2022. MARK J. TERRILL/AP

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Triad area hospitals institute visitor restrictions amid wave of respiratory illness

2:51pm January 13, 2025

by Santiago Ochoa

Hospitals are trying to slow the spread of respiratory viruses during peak cold and flu season.

Novant Health officials cut the ribbon and inaugurate the south tower of Forsyth Medical Center on Friday, Jan. 10, 2024 in Winston-Salem, N.C. SANTIAGO OCHOA/WFDD

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Novant Health celebrates completion of $400M Forsyth Medical Center south tower

1:46pm January 10, 2025

by Santiago Ochoa

Forsyth Medical Center now has a new 193,000-square-foot wing dedicated to treating heart disease.

An exterior shot of the new Novant Health Urology and Bariatric clinics. Photo courtesy of Novant Health

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Novant Health opens specialty clinics in Rural Hall

3:31pm November 18, 2024

by Santiago Ochoa

Officials within the health system say the new developments will increase access to care in rural Forsyth County.

Novant health is offering free telehealth appointments to victims or Hurricane Helen in Western North Carolina. AP/TONY TALBOT

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Novant Health offers free telehealth appointments to victims of Hurricane Helene

11:33am October 09, 2024

by Santiago Ochoa

Winston-Salem-based health system, Novant Health, has begun offering free virtual health appointments to people affected by Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina.

Jon Applebaum, Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center's president and CEO, speaks to a small crowd during the groundbreaking ceremony for the healths system's new Wellness and Education Building in Thomasville, N.C., on Wednesday, Sep. 4, 2024.

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Novant’s new Thomasville facility to focus on behavioral health and rehabilitation therapy

1:30pm September 04, 2024

by Santiago Ochoa

Novant Health broke ground on a wellness and education facility dedicated to filling health care gaps in Davidson County.

Millions of North Carolinians could see their medical debt forgiven now that many of the state's largest hospitals have committed to a new medical debt relief program. JACQUELYN MARTIN/AP

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Hospitals across the state have signed up for North Carolina's new medical debt relief program

6:30am August 26, 2024

by Santiago Ochoa

The state's new medical debt relief program has succeeded in getting all eligible hospitals on board. In exchange for relieving medical debt for millions of North Carolinians, the hospitals will receive increased Medicaid reimbursements.