ENERGIZE!, WakeMed’s community-based fitness and nutritional education program for teens and pre-teens, has been selected as one of three programs nationwide to qualify for recognition by the Department of Health & Human Services.  We need your help to win this high-profile recognition.  Please visit this web site to vote for ENERGIZE! Voters can only vote [...]

WakeMed has been helping Wake Technical Community College provide high-quality training for the region’s nurses and health professionals for more than 50 years. Now, that commitment was recognized with a national philanthropy award. The Council for Resource Development (CRD), based in Washington D.C. bestowed the Community College Benefactors Award on WakeMed.
WakeMed’s long-standing partnership with Wake [...]

Deb Laughery, vice president of Public Relations, was honored this month as one of the 2010 Triangle Business Journal (TBJ) Women In Business. The TBJ Women in Business awards recognize the Triangle’s most dynamic professional women.
For more than 13 years, Laughery has been responsible for WakeMed’s corporate communications, advertising, marketing, public relations and community relations [...]

Carolina Parent N.C. Family-Friendly 50 Company
Carolina Parent magazine and the UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School have chosen WakeMed as one of their 50 N.C. Family-Friendly Companies for 2010. Organizations that are selected for this award show a commitment to family and a healthy work/life balance.  WakeMed offers family-oriented health benefits, child care benefits, tuition reimbursement, [...]

This past Friday, The Triangle Business Journal included a special insert profiling the 2010 40 Under 40 winners.  WakeMed is proud to have two top-notch ladies receiving the award this year.  Here’s a little bit more about Laura Aiken and Valerie Barlow.  After reading portions of their nominations you will see that these two ladies [...]