Get ready to celebrate Independence Day with these super easy, fun and healthy “watermelon-inspired” recipes. Watermelon is one of the most popular summer fruits around. As the name suggests, watermelon is made up of mostly water (about 92 percent), and it’s refreshing on those hot, North Carolina summer days. Did you know that watermelon is also soaked […]
The July 4 holiday is prime time for water fun for both adults and children. It also a time when we see an increase in injuries as the result of unsafe swimming habits. Someone who sees these injuries firsthand is the medical director for the Emergency Department at WakeMed Apex Healthplex, Dr. Jeffrey Cook. Whether […]
The Adult Emergency Department at WakeMed Raleigh Campus has not yet seen a big spike in heat-related illnesses and emergency visits. There may be an increase following a longer stretch of extremely high temperatures. Most often, people heed warnings and stay inside when North Carolina’s humid, summer temperatures first hit. But as these temperatures settle in to […]
WakeMed Spiritual Care will be holding a Service of Remembrance on Thursday, June 8th in our Raleigh Campus Courtyard to honor adult loved ones who have passed away. Families, loved ones, and staff are all welcome to attend. Thursday, June 8 6:30 to 7:30 pm WakeMed Raleigh Campus, Outdoor Courtyard 3000 New Bern Ave, Raleigh […]
I was watching the Super Bowl when I passed out. No, it wasn’t because my Patriots had fallen behind (I’m a Boston native)—it was due to a few weeks of bronchitis that I couldn’t shake and unbeknownst to me, had turned into the flu. A Trip to the Emergency Department A visit to the emergency […]
Humble. Soft Spoken. Caring. Dedicated. These are just some of the first words that come to mind when describing WakeMed’s longest-standing employee, Betty McGee – known more affectionately in the community as “Nurse Betty”. At 75 years old, Betty has worked for WakeMed for 54 years (this September) with plans to retire later this year. She’s […]
WakeMed and Duke are partnering to bring together Duke’s world-class cancer program and WakeMed’s surgical oncology expertise. Cancer Care Plus+, a joint operating agreement, will establish a comprehensive cancer service throughout the WakeMed system that is fully integrated with Duke Cancer Institute locations in Wake County and anchored at Duke Raleigh Hospital. Access to Cancer […]
WakeMed’s Joanna Burgess, BSN, RN, Ed Keating, BSN, RN, and Brian Klausner, MD, won Triangle Business Journal’s 2017 Health Care Heroes awards. They are among 19 honorees recognized as leaders in their field who have made significant contributions to health care. Joanna Burgess, BSN, RN, CWOCN Thanks to Joanna Burgess, BSN, RN, patients who have […]
I love coming to work every morning and being surrounded by a team at WakeMed who has a passion for caring. Whether it is in the clinic caring for our patients or at the leadership table caring for our providers and staff, we are all focused on making the work today a little bit better […]
Working at WakeMed provides me with a unique opportunity to help distribute life saving nutrition not only to WakeMed’s patients, but to NICU babies all over the Southeast. I also get to work with an amazing group women, both staff and many volunteers, who make our mission possible. At the age of 26, Montana Wagner-Gillespie is the youngest milk bank […]
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