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Harnett Health Visitation Policy Update 04.08.24   Starting Wednesday, April 10, Cape Fear Valley Health facilities will lower the minimum age requirement for visitation from 12 to 6 years old in most areas. All minors must be accompanied by an adult. Visitation hours...

LILLINGTON, NC – March 27, 2024 – The new comprehensive cancer center in Harnett County recently received a pledge for a $500,000 donation from P.K. Vyas, M.D., founder of Eastern Carolina Medical Center in Benson. In recognition of this donation, the Cancer Center’s...

Cape Fear Valley Health is pleased to announce that it has resumed filing insurance claims for prescriptions. The health system's ability to file insurance claims for prescriptions was halted last month after the national cybersecurity attack on Change Healthcare....

On Saturday, Oct. 1, after nearly a year of preparation, Harnett Health will fully be switched to Epic, a new electronic medical records (EMR) system that will benefit not only the health system, but patients as well. The Epic EMR software implementation is another...

Due to improvements in the local positivity rates for COVID-19 and the dropping rate of COVID-19 admissions, Harnett Health facilities will loosen visitation restrictions starting Wednesday, Feb. 23rd. All patients, excluding the Emergency Department, will be allowed...

NOTE: This is not a total change from the announcement of Jan. 7, but it does outline more clarifications that are needed for staff. Due to local positivity rates of COVID-19 reaching the highest levels seen so far during the pandemic, as well as increasing rate of...

Due to local positivity rates of COVID-19 reaching the highest levels seen so far during the pandemic, as well as increasing rate of COVID-19 admissions, Harnett Health System’s facilities will further restrict visitation starting Friday, Jan. 7. Starting Friday,...

Revised 1/04/2022 As the community’s positive test rate and the health system’s COVID-19 admissions continue to trend upward, Harnett Health System is making the following modifications to the current visitation policy. These changes will go into effect on Tuesday,...

FAYETTEVILLE – Dec. 6, 2021 – Two specific projects in the Cape Fear Valley Health System will receive a combined $23 million in earmarked state funds thanks to the recently finalized state budget. Harnett Health will receive $8 million in funding for new...

DUNN, N.C. – Dec. 3, 2021 – A new Ear, Nose, Throat (ENT) clinic opening in Dunn next week will be the first of its kind in a decade, and the only ENT clinic in Harnett County. Harnett Health Ear, Nose, and Throat opens Monday, Dec. 6, at 805-A Tilghman...

Harnett Health has received national recognition for the fifth time in just over a year for excelling in patient safety and care. Today, June 7th, Harnett Health's Betsy Johnson Hospital was ranked #59 nationally by Washington Monthly Magazine and their new "Top 100...

Dunn, NC - Harnett Health is excited to welcome Dr. Immacula St. Louis to the Premiere Pediatrics team of Pediatric Providers. Dr. St. Louis is an established Board-Certified Pediatric Physician with over twenty years of experience in pediatric medicine with a focus...

Harnett OB/GYN is excited to welcome Rhonda Lovvorn, Nurse Practitioner to the team. Rhonda has been with Harnett Health System since 1991, beginning as a nurse in the Pediatrics and Medical/Surgical units for a year and has spent the rest of her time (27+ years) in...

With our health system focused on patients who have developed COVID-19, some people with unrelated, but still urgent/emergent health problems are feeling scared to visit Doctor’s offices and Emergency Departments out of a fear of being infected themselves. Harnett...

Dunn and Lillington, N.C. – Harnett Health is actively preparing staff, facilities, and resources for the potential of needing to treat patients with Coronavirus (COVID19). As of 3/09/2020 North Carolina remains a low risk for the spread of COVID-19. Coronavirus...

Dunn, NC- Harnett Health has received national recognition for the fourth time in less than a year for excelling in patient safety and care. Earlier this month Medicare Hospital Compare ratings were published online and gave Harnett Health Hospitals a four-star...

Dunn, NC. –   Today at Betsy Johnson Hospital in Dunn, Harnett Health Labor and Delivery staff received Harnett County’s first Cuddle Cot Bassinet. The Cuddle Cot was donated by Ashlee, Marcus, and their son Grant Woodring, through an organization named...