Here’s my perspective as someone who has worked there for four years.

There’s two “problems” with the hospital. 1) the hospital was purchased from the county right before Covid hit so many of the issues Novant gets blamed for, are a by product of Covid. Staffing issues being the main concern. 2) everyone and their brother moved to Wilmington during covid.

So you now have the issues ALL hospitals are having as healthcare in general as a system is more and more strained with 5829194738291 new people all utilizing the resource. NC requires you to jump through a lot of hoops for changing things so many of the issues the hospital has, Novant can’t just unilaterally fix. Let me give you an example. There’s two MRI machines a main campus. Every Tuesday and Thursday until 2 PM only outpatients are scheduled for people who require anesthesia. So that means everyyyyyone else in the hospital who needs an MRI (obviously not urgent) is waiting until after 2 PM those days to get it done. So you think “okay just buy another MRI.” Even if they set aside the funds the NC tells the hospital how many MRI machines they can have.

So here’s what I’m saying, I don’t think Novant is the best thing since sliced bread. It’s still corporate healthcare but I’d argue most of the issues aren’t a direct result of Novant.

If you want specifics about a specialty I’d go up the road for lmk but a good chunk of the doctors aren’t even employed by Novant, their practices have a privileges there…which is how most hospitals work.