Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

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Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist CEO to retire at end of 2025

4:50pm April 14, 2025

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist has grown considerably during Dr. Julie Freischlag's tenure, with a new critical care tower, birth center and additions of medical centers in High Point and Wilkes County.

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Wake Forest University receives national recognition for work on Tourette Syndrome

5:00am February 20, 2025

by Santiago Ochoa

The Tourette Association of America has recognized the Wake Forest University School of Medicine as a "Center of Excellence" for its research and treatment of Tourette Syndrome and other similar tic disorders.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gather for a briefing before an enforcement operation, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. ALEX BRANDON/AP

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Triad health systems are asked how immigration policy changes affect local hospitals

2:54pm February 03, 2025

by Santiago Ochoa

WFDD reached out to area health systems seeking more information about how they are adjusting to the policy change that allows ICE officers to enforce immigration law inside hospitals. Few responded.

COVID-19 vaccines are prepared at a clinic in Lynwood, Calif. on Friday. Oct. 28, 2022. MARK J. TERRILL/AP

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Triad area hospitals institute visitor restrictions amid wave of respiratory illness

2:51pm January 13, 2025

by Santiago Ochoa

Hospitals are trying to slow the spread of respiratory viruses during peak cold and flu season.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Novant Health lift visitor restrictions for children under 13

4:41pm March 21, 2024

by Paul Garber

Hospital officials say the move comes amid a decline in respiratory virus cases.

An Alzheimer's patient receives a lecanemab infusion treatment.

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'The beginning of better ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease' comes to the Triad

3:34pm March 15, 2024

by David Ford

On Thursday, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist became the first health system in the region to treat an Alzheimer's disease patient with the new medication lecanemab, according to the Winston-Salem-based health system.

Smoke billows from Winston Weaver Fertilizer plant site

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Researchers to share findings of study on health impacts of Winston Weaver fire

4:23pm February 01, 2024

by April Laissle

Investigators conducted interviews with affected residents and completed environment assessments of the water, soil, and air surrounding the fertilizer plant.

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RSV has likely peaked in Triad as flu and COVID-19 cases increase

3:59pm January 05, 2024

by Bethany Chafin

As the respiratory viral season picks up, local infectious disease expert Dr. Christopher Ohl gave an update Friday on three major viruses health care providers are seeing.

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Triad hospitals are in a high stakes battle over Certificate of Need — but what is it?

4:35pm August 23, 2023

by David Ford

Earlier this month, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services gave its conditional approval to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s quarter-billion-dollar plan for a new hospital in Greensboro. Atrium says their new hospital proposal is meant to help people get health care close to home. Competing health care provider Cone Health has appealed the decision, claiming that the plan is all about profits.

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Cone Health hospital and surrounding campus.

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Cone Health appeals NCDHHS approval of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's $246 million Greensboro hospital

4:43pm August 10, 2023

by David Ford

Cone Health has announced that it will appeal the state’s decision to approve Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s plan to build a hospital in Greensboro.