RALEIGH â North Carolina received more than $4.9 million federal funds for small rural hospitals in the state to provide COVID-19 testing and mitigation, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced on July 30. The program will provide increased COVID-19 testing to rural populations ensuring an equitable distribution across the state.
Nineteen hospitals will receive up to $258,376 to increase COVID-19 testing efforts, expand access to testing in rural communities and expand the range of COVID-19 mitigation activities to meet community needs. All 19 hospitals have fewer than 50 beds or are critical access hospitals.
âThis funding is key in providing an equitable response to COVID-19 in our rural communities. Rural hospitals are well-positioned as trusted health care providers in their communities to encourage COVID-19 vaccination and testing, especially in places where many people feel uncertain about getting vaccinated,â said Maggie Sauer, Dir
Wake Forest School of Medicine granted $2 8M from Duke Endowment
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Surgeon Accused of Trying to Blackmail Nurse Practitioner for Sex
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A federal lawsuit alleges that a prominent Wilkes County surgeon tried to blackmail a nurse practitioner into having sex with him for one hour, twice a month. If she didnât comply, he threatened to reveal secretly recorded conversations to her husband and other members of her family.
The doctor worked at Wilkes Medical Center, which is managed by Wake Forest Baptist Health. Dr. Jon Wesley Thompson, according to the lawsuit, was at one point the only general surgeon in Wilkes County and had been regional medical director with Wake Forest Baptist Health. He was fired after the nurse filed a sexual harassment complaint.
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