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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today WakeMed pathology lab employees Duane Martz and Brian Burt dipped their rear bicycle tires in the Pacific Ocean, marking the start of their cross-country bicycle trip. For the next four weeks, the pair will trek from ocean to ocean on the ride of their lives. When asked why, Brian and Duane replied simply “because […]
Laura Aiken is a community health specialist with WakeMed and is the director for Advocates for Health in Action. The report says that at least nine million 17- to 24-year-olds in the United States are too fat to serve in the military. That is 27 percent of all young adults. The report goes further by […]
Denton Arledge is WakeMed Vice President of Information Technology Every day I see the progress on the new Raleigh Campus Patient Tower. It is amazing how the building and the gardens are coming along. What is not visible from the outside, however, is the technology incorporated throughout the new Patient Tower. We have added a […]
Lindsay Kimbrell is a Medical Technologist in the Microbiology Lab This week marks National Medical Laboratory Professionals week, and we wanted to share the impact that medical lab professionals have in health care every day. For most patients, their interaction with the pathology lab is limited to the doctor’s office or the hospital where their […]
The Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce unveiled its new Government Affairs Process and Policy at Tuesday’s annual elected officials’ luncheon. By formalizing their government affairs strategy, the business community will be able to communicate with local, state and federal elected officials in a more timely and effective manner. In their words, they will be able […]
On Monday, Wake County Commissioners approved the transfer of ownership of an emergency response pharmaceutical trailer, purchased by the State of North Carolina on behalf of Wake County, to WakeMed. WakeMed is the lead hospital in the Capital Regional Advisory Committee, which helps coordinate all emergency response efforts in this region of the state. The […]
Susan Hester is director of communty services for the WakeMed system. WakeMed volunteers have a big impact on the system. WakeMed volunteers escort and guide patients and guests, discharge patients, visit patients, read to children, coordinate visits for families, offer diversionary activities for patients and families, survey patients, deliver mail and flowers, answer phones, file, […]
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