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Expanded Heart & Vascular Services

This weekend, WakeMed is celebrating the completion of the new Raleigh Campus patient tower during a large public grand opening event, featuring tours, activities for children and entertainment. The new patient tower is a 168,000 foot building that will serve as WakeMed Raleigh Campus’ new front door. The new patient tower will house new beds […]

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Stroke 101 Seminars

From activation of the 9-1-1 system to advanced treatments in stroke care, these special events will provide you with the tools and knowledge you need to stop stroke in its tracks. Stroke 101 Seminars: From Onset to Treatment and Beyond Tuesday, May 18 WakeMed Cary Hospital, Conference Center 6:30 pm Presented by: Brent Myers, MD, […]

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Hang Up And Drive

Sylvia Scholl is the director of the WakeMed Trauma Program. Are you guilty of being a cell phone socialite, disk jockey, high-fashion cosmetician or a 3-course meal king or queen all while driving? As Wake County’s only Trauma Center, we see the repercussions from distracted driving every day and highly encourage everyone to reevaluate participating […]

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Air Quality Flag

Debbie Credle, RN, is a nurse in the WakeMed Children’s Asthma Program and a member of the Wake County Asthma Coalition. If you drove by WakeMed Raleigh Campus on New Bern Ave. today, you might have noticed an orange flag waving from the hillside at 2610 New Bern Ave just down from the hospital’s main entrance. A flag has been […]

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Protect Your Child’s Noggin

Sylvia Scholl is the director of the WakeMed Trauma Program. Almost every day I see children riding their bikes in the park or in my neighborhood wearing their helmets while being closely supervised by their parents.  But more often than not, these children have their helmets sitting too far back on their heads with straps […]

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Taking Recalls Seriously

Lynn Eschenbacher is a pharmacy manager on the WakeMed Raleigh Campus. She is also the mother of two young girls. McNeil Pharmaceuticals recently issued a recall for certain lots of Children’s and Infant Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl products. The recall is due to these lots possibly having too medication in each dose, ingredients that […]

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Flying the Friendly Skies

Sean Gibson is manager of quality assurance for Mobile Care Services. At any accident there can be as many as four news helicopters covering the scene where WakeMed’s Air Mobile is responding to a call.  WRAL’s Sky 5 is one of the most frequent helicopters covering accidents where WakeMed Air Mobile has been called to […]

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Sleeping Like a Baby

Today the Consumer Products Safety Commission announced another large recall of cribs due to strangulation and suffocation hazards.  Please make sure you take appropriate actions as detailed on the CPSC web site if your baby is sleeping in one of these cribs.  Also, make sure to follow these guidelines from Safe Kids USA for putting your baby down to […]

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