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After Helene, clinician teams brought critical care to isolated WNC communities

By Jaymie Baxley After the remnants of Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on western North Carolina’s health care infrastructure, the N.C. Office of Emergency Medical Services deployed nine multidisciplinary teams of clinicians to waterlogged communities where residents were cut off from providers.  It was a complex undertaking that required the state to set up mobile treatment […]

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