Appalachian Regional Healthcare System has created a new multi-disciplinary Post-COVID Recovery Program to bring much needed help for the estimated 13,000 people in the High Country suffering with “long COVID” or post-COVID conditions. Read More: New Post-COVID Recovery Program brings hope to “long haul” patients
Dr. Hordes recently renewed his certification for the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE). He placed in the top five percent of all scores and was offered an ambassadorship for the IBHRE. Read More: Local cardiologist receives international recognition, explains cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)
Dr. William Cummings Tate II, “Bill,” began practicing alongside his father Lawson in 1977, and in his own more than forty years of treating the people of Avery County, he devoted himself to providing more than medical care, as he worked to make Avery County a better place. Read More: Dr. Bill Tate: A Legacy of Compassion and Care
Upon hearing that local teacher Shannon Perdue needed a kidney transplant, Audra Wiseman began considering being a donor. After testing and research, Audra was fully convinced that donating her kidney to Shannon Perdue was something she wanted to do. Read More: Cannon Memorial Hospital nurse donates kidney to save a teacher’s life
It has been said that timing is everything. Fortunately for Betty Redman, she has been in the right place at the right time, not just once, but at least twice – at least where her heart health is concerned. Read More: Getting to the heart of the matter: cardiopulmonary staff credited for saving patient’s life
From the very beginning, Roger Mashke has always had a knack for interacting with and helping people. Whether it was running a successful television business or working as a volunteer firefighter, leaving a positive impact on another individual has always been his main source of motivation. That’s why when given the opportunity to volunteer for Charles A. Cannon Jr. Memorial Hospital, he knew it was what he wanted to do. Four years later, Mashke is still one of the most dedicated volunteers we have at Cannon Memorial Hospital and Appalachian Regional Healthcare System (ARHS) as a whole. Read More: Roger’s Reason: Finding purpose in volunteering
After delivering more than 2,000 babies during his 40-year career as a pediatric and family medicine doctor in Avery County, Dr. Charlie Baker is set to retire this June. Since opening his solo practice in 1979, The Baker Center for Primary Care, a member of Appalachian Regional Medical Associates, has grown to become the cornerstone of accessible healthcare in the community. Read More: Special Delivery: The Charlie Baker Story
Stephanie Pate Greer, the Director of Behavioral Health at Appalachian Regional Healthcare System (ARHS), knows firsthand the danger of complacency. She and her team of nurses, therapists, crisis interventionists and psychiatrists have made a collective and unwavering commitment to always provide high quality behavioral health services in the High Country. For Stephanie, it was a promise made in heartbreak, steeped in love and maintained by her uncompromising resolve. Read More: A Promise Kept: The Stephanie Greer Story
Mary Finley, the cardiovascular lab manager at Watauga Medical Center defines love differently. At the hospital she and her team work with interventional cardiologists to provide life-saving heart procedures for patients in need of a second chance. After receiving her own share of second chances in life, she defines love as an action, made evident through undeserved and unconditional grace. Read More: The Mary Finley Story: Understanding the heart of second chances
Have you ever thought about what goes into hospital operations? Oftentimes we spend so much time thinking about doctors, nurses and patients that we tend to overlook those who work behind the scenes to take care of the hospital building itself. Each pipe, ventilation shaft, walkway and…
read more
