By Brian O’Shea, Plateau Daily News Last week was National Nurses Week and it was established to recognize the contributions of nurses throughout the country each year from May 6-12. “We are honored to have […]
By Tom Neal, Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Since we celebrate National Heart Month every February, it’s a good time to review what we can do to lower our risk for heart disease and heart attack. Unfortunately, […]
By Tom Neal, CEO of Highlands-Cashiers Hospital I am anticipating the arrival of spring even more than usual this year. Of course, I’m looking forward to the milder temperatures and the explosion of green on […]
By Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal With COVID-19 permeating every aspect of our lives these last two years, there’s hardly been a subject that has been more discussed than the COVID vaccine. I continue to […]
By Tom Neal, CEO of Highlands-Cashiers Hospital We’ve now officially entered 2022, and after a two-year span we’ll never forget, we are in a place of looking forward. Because of all we’ve been through with […]
By Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal As 2021 comes to a close, I think most of us are not just reflecting on the past year, but the nearly two years that have elapsed since the […]
By Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal At least once or twice a year, I believe it helps our community to get an overview of what’s happening at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital (HCH), because we’re far from a […]
At a special meeting this afternoon, the Town of Highlands Board of Commissioners passed an order reinstating the requirement to wear a mask in all business zones, in both inside and outdoor spaces. There are […]
Representatives of the new Blue Ridge Health primary clinic (including appearance by one of the new doctors); Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation; Highlands Cashiers Hospital; and, Mountain Area Health Education will be on hand at a community health and wellness forum from […]
By Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal As Highlands-Cashiers Hospital continues to evolve, I realize that growth doesn’t just happen as a result of expanding a facility’s square footage, recruiting new physicians and staff, enhancing services, […]
Last week’s town board meeting was a celebratory event in many ways. The Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation introduced the two new doctors that they brought to the plateau in conjunction with their funding and opening […]
By Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal There may be no more beautiful time on the Plateau than spring and summer, and after over a year of pandemic stress and isolation, we are likely to see […]
3D mammography (tomosynthesis), available at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital, is a tool that helps find more cancers and find those cancers earlier. With traditional mammography, the image is flat. During a 3D mammogram, multiple images are obtained […]
By Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal We owe all frontline healthcare workers a huge debt of gratitude for their selfless devotion to their patients, willingness to risk contracting the COVID-19 virus themselves or bringing it […]
Neal said one step people can take to reverse the toll of COVID-19 on the Plateau is get vaccinated From a public health perspective, there is no more important step that the residents of the […]