On Monday, Wake County Commissioners approved the transfer of ownership of an emergency response pharmaceutical trailer, purchased by the State of North Carolina on behalf of Wake County, to WakeMed.  WakeMed is the lead hospital in the Capital Regional Advisory Committee, which helps coordinate all emergency response efforts in this region of the state.  The [...]

At the Public Health Study Commission meeting last Thursday at the NC General Assembly, I was asked several times if there was an issue on the agenda that was of particular interest to WakeMed.  The answer is “yes” to the entire agenda, we are public health! 
Hospitals like WakeMed are on the front lines of all [...]

The Cary News included a story yesterday quoting me and profiling two Holly Springs residents on their desire to have a hospital built in their town.  Every community wants a hospital for convenience, choice, access, and yes, competition throughout the region.  But it is not feasible for every community in an urban county like Wake [...]

Christine Craig is the Director of WakeMed’s Government Affairs Department
This morning I joined a couple of my colleagues for a “snow day” planning breakfast.  Those are the best types of meetings!   I shared with them WakeMed’s health care reform priorities.  After much discussion, one of my colleagues said “now this is what reform really [...]

NAMI Wake County (National Alliance on Mental Illness) has expressed concern over Wake County’s lack of hospital beds for psychiatric patients, and has called on WakeMed to fill this void. Below is my response to Ann Akland, Co-President of NAMI Wake County.
Dear Mrs. Akland:
As you know, over the past three years Wake County Government,  Holly [...]

If you’re looking for a sure sign of the need for health care reform, you should take a visit to an Emergency Department.  It has become the de facto “front door” to our health care system for millions of patients who turn to hospitals to provide routine medical care not because they want to, but [...]

I’ve been running a hospital for the better part of three decades and my friends and neighbors often seek me out when they have questions about health care. Lately, those questions have been coming a lot more frequently and they are all about health care reform. The short answer to the most frequently asked [...]