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The rapid onset and intensity of this pandemic has left society, and health care systems
in particular, reeling from the effects and wondering how they could be so unprepared. While it feels unprecedented in many ways, the Covid-19 pandemic itself is not the primary cause of the current chaos in health care. Pandemics have occurred before and will certainly occur again; the new variable during this one is the deeply interconnected world in which we live in today. Network phenomena are the new reality, and they are only going to become increasingly prevalent.

Asheville-based Mission Health, the state’s sixth-largest system with an eight-hospital network, owns Highlands-Cashiers Hospital and Angel Medical Center in Franklin.
Every three years, the two update their Community Health Needs Assessment and strategize ways to battle the same persistent beast: Heart disease is Macon County’s No. 1 killer.

Asheville-based Mission Health, the state’s sixth-largest system with an eight-hospital network, owns Highlands-Cashiers Hospital and Angel Medical Center in Franklin.
Every three years, the two update their Community Health Needs Assessment and strategize ways to battle the same persistent beast: Heart disease is Macon County’s No. 1 killer.

Asheville-based Mission Health, the state’s sixth-largest system with an eight-hospital network, owns Highlands-Cashiers Hospital and Angel Medical Center in Franklin.
Every three years, the two update their Community Health Needs Assessment and strategize ways to battle the same persistent beast: Heart disease is Macon County’s No. 1 killer.

For many North Carolina residents – about 40 percent or roughly 4 million people – prefer the pace of a small town and the space to spread out. They reside in one of the state’s 80 counties classified as rural – a population density of 250 people per square mile or less.

Carolinas HealthCare Foundation has received a $1.1 million grant award from The Duke Endowment to improve cardiac care at Atrium Health.

An Atrium Health pilot program aims to improve health care through the use of emerging technologies. Think Fitbits, smart scales and “the medical equivalent of Facetime.”

These types of tools will be incorporated as part of the initiative called Perfect Care: Personalized Cardiac Care and Collaborative. Atrium Health Foundation received a $1.1 million grant from The Duke Endowment to fund the three-year pilot.