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When it comes to news about medicine, it goes without saying that Covid-19 has consumed all the oxygen in the room — forgive the expression — for going on two and a half years. Read Story »
Tags: Pardee | Pardee UNC Health Care | COVID-19 Pardee
Dozens of Pardee doctors, nurses, therapists and support staff lined hospital corridors as a patient was wheeled to the exit last Thursday. Marcos was hospitalized with complications from Covid-19 a few days before Christmas and discharged after spending 100 days at the facility, 60 of them in the Intensive Care Unit. Read Story »
Tags: COVID-19 Pardee
A Pardee UNC Health Care team that was instrumental in the development and operation of an indoor mass Covid-19 vaccination clinic published a report about the successful partnership in the International Journal of Infection Control. Read Story »
Tags: COVID-19 Pardee | Covid-19 vaccination
The area has not yet seen the peak of the omicron variant and as cases increase Pardee UNC Health Care is experiencing a heavy patient census, Chris Parsons, Pardee's medical director for infectious disease, said Friday. Statewide, data shows that the Covid burden on providers is higher than at any time during the pandemic. Read Story »
Tags: Chris Parsons | infectious disease | COVID-19 Pardee | COVID-19 medical | omicron
It is rare that I personally reach out to members of our community to share a direct message from Pardee. Usually, it would be to share some good news about an award or a new service that we’ve added to our system. Unfortunately, that is not the case today. Read Story »
Tags: COVID-19 Pardee | COVID-19 medical | COVID-19 mental health
As a follow up to its announcement regarding the closing of its outpatient Covid infusion clinic, Pardee UNC Health Care announced today that it has received a limited supply of therapeutic antibodies that are to be used in treating the Omicron variant of the virus. Read Story »
Tags: COVID-19 Pardee | omicron | therapeutic antibodies
Citing an increase in cases as a result of the Omicron variant, a lack of effective monoclonal antibody treatments for the new variant and supply issues nationally, Pardee UNC Health Care ceased operating its infusion clinic on Friday. Read Story »
Tags: COVID-19 Pardee | Covid-19 booster | omicron
When he was appointed chief medical officer of Pardee UNC Health seven years ago, David Ellis could not possibly have predicted that he would spend the final 22 months of his career as a field general in the war on a pandemic. Read Story »
Tags: COVID-19 Pardee | coronavirus politics | David Ellis
While Pardee UNC Health has seen a rise in patient admissions, physicians have found that outpatient antibody treatments have been effective in keeping hospitalizations at bay and preventing deaths, the hospital’s chief medical officer said. Read Story »
Tags: Dr. David Ellis | COVID-19 Pardee | David Ellis | vaccination incentives | vaccine Covid | Covid misinformation | coronavirus masks
Pardee Hospital, which had been cruising along with a healthy profit margin before the coronavirus, limped to the end of its 2019-20 fiscal year in the black only because it received federal stimulus money, Pardee President and CEO Jay Kirby told the Board of Commissioners this month. Read Story »
Tags: Pardee | COVID-19 Pardee
Blue Ridge Honor Flight volunteers are used to honoring soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who served on the front lines in combat. On Thursday they turned their efforts to workers on the front lines of coronavirus treatment, the world war that is consuming health care providers. Read Story »
Tags: COVID-19 Pardee | coronavirus charity
The atmosphere was somber when Pardee UNC Health CEO Jay Kirby stepped to the microphone at a meeting of the Henderson County Board of Commissioners in the Historic Courthouse the morning of Friday, March 27. Read Story »
Tags: COVID-19 Pardee | COVID-19 medical | covid-19 assisted living centers
Henderson County has seen success limiting community spread of the coronavirus and preventing a surge of patients that would overwhelm its two hospitals, AdventHealth’s chief medical officer told community leaders Thursday. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | coronavirus government | COVID-19 Pardee
RALEIGH — Lawmakers shifted their focus away from the coronavirus surge for the first time during the Tuesday, April 14, meeting of the House Committee on COVID-19 Health Care Working Group. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus government | COVID-19 Pardee | COVID-19 medical
Fast-tracked to maximize patient safety and minimize unnecessary exposure to coronavirus or other respiratory illness, Pardee UNC Health announced telehealth options for their patients. Read Story »
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It seems like ages ago when physicians, hospital administrators, first responders and county administrators filled a training room at the Thomas H. Thompson Emergency Services Center to talk about the coronavirus. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | COVID-19 Pardee | covid-19 Carolina Village
Facing reduced patient revenue despite unprecedented activity in response to Covid-19, Pardee UNC Health Care is reducing pay for top executives and putting front-line workers on a schedule that will flex with demand. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | COVID-19 Pardee
The patient who died of Covid-19 at Pardee UNC Health hospital on Thursday night was a resident of Carolina Village who had been admitted previously, discharged to the life care center's medical wing, then readmitted to Pardee, Carolina Village administrator Kevin Parries told residents in a website message. Read Story »
Tags: Carolina Village | COVID-19 Pardee | COVID-19 medical | covid-19 Carolina Village
RALEIGH —Hospital leaders are sharing concerns about protective equipment and lower revenue as lawmakers look for ways to help the health care system fight COVID-19. Read Story »
Tags: COVID-19 | COVID-19 Pardee | COVID-19 medical
Sheriff Lowell Griffin is urging residents to remain calm, use common sense and ignore unfounded rumors as they live under COVID-19 stay-at-home orders imposed Friday by the Henderson County Board of Commissioners and Gov. Roy Cooper. Read Story »
Tags: Lowell Griffin | COVID-19 | COVID-19 Pardee | COVID-19 stay home order | COVID-19 law enforcement
Pardee UNC Health is currently caring for a patient in the hospital who has tested positive for COVID-19, the hospital announced Friday afternoon. Read Story »
Tags: COVID-19 | COVID-19 Pardee
In preparation for an increase in patients related to COVID-19, Pardee UNC Health and the Henderson County emergency services have issued a call for much-needed medical supplies to help protect their health care workers. Read Story »
Tags: COVID-19 Pardee | COVID-19 medical
While it ramps up unprecedented safety precautions, prepares for a surge in patients and juggles calls to 14 different vendors seeking COVID-19 test kits, Pardee/UNC Health is seeing regular patient revenue drop precipitously, the hospital board was told Wednesday. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus | COVID-19 | COVID-19 Pardee | COVID-19 medical | COVID-19 test