By Tom Neal, CEO of Highlands-Cashiers Hospital If you or a loved one has ever experienced a hospital stay, it’s easy to recognize how important nurses are to every patient’s healing. What is demanded of […]
By Brian O’Shea, Plateau Daily News Members of the community gathered to recognize the 30th anniversary of the Highlands-Cashiers Hospital on March 15. HCH CEO Tom Neal spoke about how far healthcare has come on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal Patient safety is a term you hear constantly in the healthcare industry, and though the two words are simple and easy to understand, the efforts to ensure that patients […]
Brush up on your knowledge of radon’s risks and Highlands-Cashiers Hospital’s capability to provide advanced lung cancer screening Most people think of tobacco use when they think of lung cancer, but did you know that […]
By Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal The end of 2020 — a year none of us are likely to forget any time soon — is fast approaching, and for a while now, we’ve known that […]
Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal said Breast Cancer Awareness Month offers an opportunity to celebrate advances in treatment and look ahead to enhanced screening options coming to the hospital Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness […]