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Winston-Salem, NC -- Forsyth Medical Center and its parent organization solicited feedback from its managers and employees on how to best celebrate the healthcare system's tenth anniversary. After considering several good ideas, the organization chose the option that its employees overwhelmingly recommended - give something back to its communities.

"Our healthcare system is going to build three Habitat for Humantity homes in celebration of our anniversary," explained Paul Wiles, president and CEO of Novant Health, "one in each of our three major regions including here locally in Forsyth County. We'll be using the funds we would have spent on an anniversary party and instead purchase lumber, nails, glass, paint and all the supplies to build to new future for three deserving families of our communities."

Locally, Forsyth Medical Center and its staff will build a home in the area in partnership with Habitat for Humantity of Forsyth County. Fellow employees in Brunswick County and in the Charlotte region - areas where the health system has the largest concentration of hospitals, physician clinics and other facilities - will follow suit.

Each of the three regions will work closely with its local Habitat for Humantity chapter. The construction will begin sometime in late winter and early spring of 2008.

The not-for-profit healthcare system formed in 1997 when Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem and Presbyterian Healthcare of Charlotte merged, bringing together two regions, five hospitals and approximately 13,000 employees. Today, the healthcare system consists of eight hospitals, an 800-physician medical group and 19,000 employees. The health system will continue to grow as it begins building three new community hospitals and expanding outreach with new neighborhood medical plazas. In addition, several organizations have announced plans to join Novant, including Rowan Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, NC and the national MedQuest company with 91 diagnostic imaging centers.

Verispan's 2007 Top 100 list of integrated healthcare networks ranks Novant Health as North Carolina's highest rated healthcare system and 7th in the nation. Verispan, an independent health informatics company, analyzes integrated healthcare networks based on eight critical success factors and then utilizes that evaluation to rank health systems throughout the country.