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The Best Care for Coastal North Carolina.

We are committed to providing the highest quality healthcare and continuously improving services to create a healthier future for you and your family.

Advancing the Health of the Coastal North Carolina Region Through High-Quality, Accessible Care

Novant Health has a bold vision for improving the health of southeastern North Carolina. It involves making top quality care more accessible, with new care sites, an expanded team, and an unwavering commitment to advancing care, safety and patient experience.

While we have made strides in expanding our services and achieving national recognition in areas such as maternity, heart and stroke care, we know there’s more to be done. Our vision is the fulfillment of the promises made when we welcomed New Hanover Regional Medical Center into the Novant Health system in 2021.

Together, we are working to deliver the best care for our growing region, now and in the future.

A Message from Ernie Bovio

Ernie Bovio, president of the Coastal Region, reinforces the importance of Vision 2030 and Novant Health's commitment to advancing care across southeastern North Carolina.

Investment to Advance Care in Wilmington

Novant Health’s board of trustees has approved planned expansions for New Hanover Regional Medical Center, building infrastructure to support healthcare needs for decades including:

Heart and vascular tower at 17th Street
80,000-square-foot heart and vascular medical office building
60-bed rehabilitation hospital on Wrightsville Avenue

National recognition for high-quality local care

At Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center, you can expect next-level care. Some of our recent recognitions include:

US News 2025 Maternity Award for Best Performing Hospitals

Healthgrades 2026 award for 100 Best Joint Replacement

Healthgrades 2026 award for 50 Best Outpatient Joint

Healthgrades 2026 award for 50 Best Outpatient Prostate

Healthgrades 2026 award for Best Ortho Surgery

AHA 2025 Stroke Gold Award

AHA 2025 Gold Award Heart Failure

NCDR 2025 Platinum Award for Chest Pain

Best Hospitals Maternity Award

Female nurse with an elderly surgery patient

Novant Health NHRMC Dashboard

As part of our focus on continuous improvement, we regularly evaluate key metrics related to our Vision 2030 goals. Track our progress as we deliver on our vision for a healthier future.

Vision 2030: Supporting Our Community's Healthcare

Our strategic plan, Vision 2030, outlines an ambitious path forward and focuses our resources and efforts around five key areas:

Empowering Our Care Teams

We strive to be recognized as a top career destination for physicians and team members and rank among top healthcare organizations for team members and medical staff engagement and high standards for nursing.

As part of our commitment to support nurse retention, we provide a Nurse Residency Program, allowing new nurses to gain exposure in different areas of nursing, plus mentorship programs and coaching sessions, to ensure they have support needed as they start their career with us. We have also invested in expanded tuition programs to support team member advancement as they grow their skills.

Advancing Safety and Quality

We pursue and provide unparalleled safety and quality in our care, learning from industry best practices and implementing our HeRO playbook -- our comprehensive guide for our efforts to elevate safety, quality, and patient experience across our organization. 

For instance, our proactive safety efforts resulted in a 50% reduction in patient fall injuries. 

Driving Positive Patient Experience

We provide outstanding patient experiences throughout our facilities. 

One way we achieve this is to support continued improvements in patient experience. We launched a task force that includes team members who work at the bedside, and we’re involving patients and families in our collaborative work through our patient/family advisory councils (PFACs), to ensure their input is part of the process.

Ensuring Operational Excellence

We strive for operational excellence, ensuring everything from our cleanliness to our food delivery is optimized to support our care teams and patients.  

For example, for patients seen in the emergency department who need to be admitted to the hospital to continue care, a program focused on supporting patient experience has led to a 26% reduction in wait time for inpatient bed placement.

Advancing Access to Care

Novant Health is growing access to care across the region, opening more locations and recruiting new clinicians to meet the healthcare needs of our community. 

In support of this goal, we’re constructing the future Scotts Hill Medical Center, which will ensure an expansion of much-needed inpatient beds in New Hanover County, easing some of the capacity constraints we've experienced.