New Chair Yoga Sessions Created for Stroke Survivors
As a complement to the free Stroke Recovery Group with Dr. Sullivan, which meets monthly through July at the Clara McLean House in Pinehurst led…
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‘Dance Parties’ at Clara’s House Serve as Welcome Therapy for Parkinson’s Patients
From inside FirstHealth’s Clara McLean House blares James Brown’s “I Feel Good.” “Who feels good in here?” asks a bubbly Rachel Shell, MT-BC, of her…
Excellence in Action: Bariatric Nurse Honored with DAISY Award
Christi Embler, BSN, R.N., CBN, has been recognized as a DAISY Award winner for FirstHealth of the Carolinas. Embler, who serves as the nursing education…
Take Heart: FirstHealth Going Red for Heart Disease in Women
PINEHURST, NC – Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States, causing one in three deaths each year. FirstHealth of…
New Heart Failure Clinic Helps Patients Better Manage Complex Disease
PINEHURST—Heart failure impacts the lives of more than 5 million Americans. Many people who have the disease experience various challenges managing it, which increases their…
Sharon Nicholson Harrell, DDS, MPH, FAGD, Recipient of FirstHealth MLK Leadership Award
PINEHURST—Sharon Nicholson Harrell, DDS, MPH, FAGD, director of FirstHealth Dental, has been named the 2020 recipient of the FirstHealth MLK Leadership Award. Dr. Harrell was…
FirstHealth of the Carolinas Implements Visitation Restrictions
PINEHURST – With flu season intensifying across North Carolina, FirstHealth of the Carolinas is asking for the community’s cooperation to limit the spread of the…
Moore Regional’s Weight-Loss Surgery Program Earns National Reaccreditation
PINEHURST – The FirstHealth Bariatric Center, a surgical weight-loss program at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital, has earned a three-year reaccreditation as a Comprehensive Center under…
Robin Caswell, MSW, LCSW, LCAS-A joins FirstHealth Behavioral Services
PINEHURST–As an Army veteran and paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division from 2006 to 2010, Robin Caswell saw the struggles some of her fellow soldiers…
Weight Loss Surgery Enables a Pinehurst Banker to be Both Half and Twice the Woman She Used to Be
[call out] Kelly Jones-Tice of Pinehurst is both half and twice the woman she used to be. [end call out] After successful completion of the…
FirstHealth Montgomery Memorial Hospital receives $350,000 grant from The Duke Endowment to reimagine local health care
PINEHURST, North Carolina: FirstHealth of the Carolinas, headquartered in Pinehurst, has received a $350,000 grant from The Duke Endowment to develop a robust plan for…
FirstHealth On the Go Makes Doctors Available Anytime, Anywhere
PINEHURST, NC – Seeing a doctor just got a little bit easier thanks to a new offering from FirstHealth of the Carolinas. FirstHealth On the…
Team Effort Helps FirstHealth Focus on Antimicrobial Stewardship
Antibiotics save lives, but their overuse and misuse can put patients at unnecessary risk for preventable allergic reactions and drug-resistant infections. FirstHealth of the Carolina…
FirstHealth Behavioral Services Turned Patients Life “180 degrees”
PINEHURST–Life was humming along for Bonnie Sweeney in 2011. Working as a nurse in Casper, Wyoming, she also successfully juggled her role as a wife…
Moore Regional and Moore Regional-Richmond Nationally Recognized With ‘A’ Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades
PINEHURST –FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital (MRH) and Moore Regional Hospital- Richmond were awarded an ‘A’ in The Leapfrog Group’s fall 2019 hospital safety grades ,…
FirstHealth Bariatric Nurse earns Certification from American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
PINEHURST, N.C. — The FirstHealth of the Carolinas Bariatric Center has always put patients first, and Christi Embler, R.N., BSN, CBN, is set to provide…
Flu Vaccine Available at FirstHealth Convenient Care, Family Care Clinics
PINEHURST, N.C. – Each year, millions of Americans get the flu. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about eight percent of the…
FirstHealth of the Carolinas Earns 2019 CHIME HealthCare’s Most Wired Recognition
Pinehurst, NC– The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is pleased to announce that FirstHealth of the Carolinas has earned 2019 CHIME HealthCare’s Most…
Sandhills Region Wins $1 Million Federal Grant to Battle Opioid Abuse
More than two dozen agencies join forces to implement prevention, treatment and recovery efforts PINEHURST, North Carolina — Driven by a shared goal that “all…
FirstHealth Joins National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with Local Awareness and Prevention Activities
1in8K race highlights efforts; free pink lunch totes with mammograms PINEHURST – The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that by the year’s end in the…
Army Veteran Thomas J. Richard, M.D. Joins FirstHealth Cancer Care Team
As a young man, Thomas J. Richard thought a career in the financial world would suit him, so he earned an undergraduate degree from the…
Oncology Nurse Practitioner to join FirstHealth Cancer Care Team
PINEHURST–Bobbi Clark, MSN, R.N., AGNP-C, has seen tremendous advances in cancer therapy during her career as a nurse, but for Clark, there is one important…
FirstHealth’s Melissa Herman Selected for National Diabetes Advocacy Leadership Program
Melissa Herman, R.D., Bariatric Center Patient Navigator PINEHURST, North Carolina — Melissa Herman’s official title is program manager of the FirstHealth Bariatric Center, but a…
FirstHealth Educates Women and Families during Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month
Michael Sundborg, M.D. OB/GYN GYN Oncology PINEHURST– “I tell everyone that early detection is the key!” declares dental hygienist and ovarian cancer survivor Marlene Thomas….
Cardiothoracic Surgeon Joins FirstHealth Heart Services with Advanced Training in New Minimally Invasive Valve Procedure
With his dream of returning to North Carolina fulfilled, Stephen Davies, M.D., MPH, has joined FirstHealth Heart Services in Pinehurst as a cardiothoracic surgeon, joining…
Nurse Practitioner Brings Passion for Heart Health as New Provider at FirstHealth Cardiology
PINEHURST—Amy Cradic, board certified family nurse practitioner, will join FirstHealth Cardiology located at 7 Regional Circle in the Heather Glenn Office Park in Pinehurst later…
Cancer Survivor’s Day
Liz Stern (third from right), current president of the Sandhills Quilters and FirstHealth toymaker volunteer for more than 11 years, presents the Cancer Survivors Day…
Moore Regional Earns Stroke Gold Plus Award & Target Stroke Elite Plus Honor Roll
PINEHURST—FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital has been awarded the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award…
FirstHealth of the Carolinas Nursing Leadership Academy
PINEHURST – Ten graduates of the FirstHealth of the Carolinas 2019 Nursing Leadership Academy were honored during a graduation ceremony hosted by The Foundation of…
FirstHealth Launches Dementia-Friendly Hospital Initiative
PINEHURST—According to the World Health Organization and Alzheimer’s Association, dementia is a public health priority. Presently, there are 50 million people worldwide with dementia, and…