Today is National Go Red Day. National Go Red Day is celebrated annually to help raise awareness about the No. 1 killer of women – heart disease. By wearing red on Go Red Day you are fighting to raise awareness of heart disease in women. In honor of the American Heart Association’s Go Red Day for […]
Barb Bisset, PhD is the executive director of the WakeMed Health & Hospitals Emergency Services Institute. WakeMed employees volunteering in Waveland, Mississippi, in the wake of Katrina WakeMed employees, physicians, supporters and readers of this blog have demonstrated an immense spirit of generosity in their continual requests to expand WakeMed’s role in the response to […]
Wayne Worden, MS, RRT, RCP has been a licensed respiratory care practitioner for 16 years and is director of respiratory care WakeMed Raleigh Campus. Smoking Ban in NC Restaurants Saturday marks the first day of a restaurant smoking ban in North Carolina. This is remarkable because these restaurants and bars are some of the last businesses […]
Can you increase your chances of wealth and health by what you eat on New Year’s Day? WakeMed Dietitian Diana Koenning took a look at New Year’s food traditions celebrated by different cultures and believes that while you may not be able to guarantee wealth by your dietary choices, you can certainly impact your health. […]
Recently Raleigh Cardiology Associates celebrated its 30th anniversary in the WakeMed Heart Center Conference Center. To mark this occasion, I interviewed Dr. Mark Leithe, cardiologist with Raleigh Cardiology Associates, for his perspective on cardiovascular care in Wake County and how far it has progressed since 1979. First and foremost, we have seen a precipitous drop […]
WakeMed Health & Hospitals is a 900+ bed hospital system based in Raleigh, NC, serving central and eastern North Carolina. In 1997, WakeMed conveyed to a private, not-for-profit. The system has more than 1 million patient visits each year, 9,000+ talented employees, more than 1,000 dedicated physicians on staff and more than 1,000 volunteers. Learn more about […]
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