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? Demand for nursing
care will grow rapidly as
Baby Boomers swell
Medicare enrollment by
50 percent by 2025 and
millions of individuals
obtain new or better
access to care under the
health care reform law.
? Nurses are rapidly
creating and expanding
new job roles - such as
nurse navigators, care
coordinator specialists,
and nurse wellness
coaches - to help patients
secure resources, obtain
seamless comprehensive
care and develop healthy
lifestyle practices.
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care is provided, a nurse
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pitals, ambulatory care
centers, private practices,
retail and urgent care
clinics, nurse-managed
health centers, homes,
schools, nursing homes,
and public and nonprofit
agencies.
Increasingly, nurses
with advanced degrees,
such as nurse practition
ers, are providing pri
mary care services and
managing chronic illness
es. Studies show patients
are highly satisfied with
their services and are
experiencing outcomes
comparable to those of
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City Manager Lee Garrity (right) talks to residents
last year at a forum about the then-proposed sale of
Bowman Gray Stadium and the LJVMC.
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would require prior
approval.
"Even a lease with
Winston-Salem State
requires the state to
approve it," he stated. "...
We couldn't even give it
to the university without
state approval."
The property, which
includes the stadium and
the adjacent Civitan Park,
presents many factors to
consider, according to
WSSU Associate Vice
Chancellor of Facilities
Management Owen
Cooks, and its sale
requires the cooperation
of several different state
agencies, which is part of
the reason for the grind
ing process.
"It's a pretty large,
complex deal," he stated.
"...It's 94 acres and a lot
of moving pieces, a lot of
facilities."
Cooks said the
process is moving in the
right direction.
"There are still some
more hurdles we've got to
go through," he said.
"From what I've heard
from the folks in Raleigh,
we're expecting an offer
very soon, but I think
you're looking at least a
couple of months to get
the offer processed."
State Sen. Earline
Parmon said she had
expected the deal to be
finalized by now. but
noted that "the wheels of
bureaucracy sometimes
turn very slowly."
"Dealing with the
bureaucracy of the state,
sometimes there are
delays, but we feel pretty
confident that it's going
to happen." she said.
"There's no reason that it
shouldn't."
The WSSU
alumna said local legisla
tors on both sides of the
aisle are united in their
stance on the issue.
. "All of us are very
supportive and we're
going to work hard to
make sure it happens,"
she said. "The full dele
gation is behind Winston
Salem State being able to
purchase it from the city."
Cooks says being able
to expand the campus to
include the stadium,
where the WSSU Football
team plays its home
games, will be well worth
the time it takes to make
the purchase happen.
"It's really a key
acquisition for our master
plan." he noted. "...
We've put a lot of money
into it, so getting control
of that is pretty important
to us."
The university has
already begun incorporat
ing the stadium into its
activities, tapping it for
the upcoming 2014 com
mencement ceremony
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and taking over opera
tional roles for the city.
Although some race fans
had expressed concerns
about the facility chang
ing hands, fearing that the
sale could impact races at
Bowman Gray, which is
hailed as "NASCAR's
longest running weekly
racetrack," both Cooks
and Garrity said that
those issues have been
addressed by provisions
that are included in the
bill of sale, and WSSU's
stated commitment to
keeping the racetrack's
programming intact.
"It has not been a fast
process, but we've been
trying to make it as
smooth as possible, to
make sure everybody's
needs are accommodat
ed," Cooks said.
State Rep. Ed Hanes
said constituents across
his district have voiced
support for the sale, with
many questioning why it
hadn't happened long
before now.
"I think the over
whelming feeling across
the district is that
Winston-Salem State
should have that stadium
and in fact should have
had a stadium a long time
ago," he said. "It makes
no sense that they don't
have the stadium - that's
been the overwhelming
sense - because the stadi
um sits right at the uni
versity, they play at it
already, and it doesn't
make any sense that they
don't have it."
Last May, the City
Council also approved the
sale of Lawrence Joel
Veterans Memorial
Coliseum to Wake Forest
University, a private
school with brimming
coffers, for $8 million.
That sale was completed
soon after it was given
the green-light.
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for students, faculty and
staff.
"We have a search com
mittee that's going to be
good at being good listen
ers to hear what the com
munity has to say to help
select the next chancellor,"
said Debra Miller, who
heads the WSSU Board of
Trustees and the 20-mem
ber search committee.
The Board of Trustees
appointed the committee,
which includes alumni, stu
dents, faculty and staff, last
month. Members held their
first meeting on April 21 at
the Greensboro Airport
Marriott.
The public input will be
used to help draft a leader
ship statement, which will
be given to the search firm
that will be charged with
finding qualified candidates
for the position. The 12
most promising applicants
will be interviewed by the
Committee, which will rec
ommend their top two or
three picks to UNC System
President Tom Ross. He
will then pick one candi
date to present to the UNC
Board of Governors, which
will ultimately hire the new
chancellor. Miller said ide
ally, the committee would
like to see the processes
completed before Reaves -
who will continue to have a
presence at WSSU as a pro
fessor - takes his bow at the
end of the year. The next
chancellor will be the
school's 13th.
It s been great to see us
evolve as a university as we
have under (Reaves') lead
ership and to be able to find
someone who will comple
ment what he's already
done and build on what he's
already done is exciting for
me to be a part of it," she
said.
Randon Pender - presi
dent of the Brown Alumni
Chapter, one of the city's
oldest WSSU alum organi
zations - said she is glad
alumni have a voice on the
committee. WSSU
National Alumni
Association President
Gordon Everette, who was
contacted for this story, but
deferred to Miller, is a
search committee member.
Pender plans to attend
tonight's meeting to say
that she wants a chancellor
who is not only a strong
leader but is visible on
campus and at open houses.
"I would like the indi
vidual to be a visionary; 1
would like them to be posi
tive and be able to influence
leadership in a positive
way, not in a dogmatic
way" she said. "... A down
to-earth type of person; a
hit-the-pavement type of
person who's out in the
community."
The other search com
mittee members are:
WSSU Trustee and School
Board Member Victor
Johnson Jr.; WSSU Trustee
and Mayor Pro Temp
Vivian Burke; WSSU
Trustee and Wells Fargo
Senior Vice President Sue
Henderson; WSSU Trustee
and Kate B. Reynolds
Charitable Trust President
Karen McNeil-Miller;
WSSU Trustee and PNC
Bank Senior Vice President
Keith Vaughan; WSSU
Trustee and WSSU Student
Government Association
President Bryant Bell;
WSSU School of Health
Sciences Dean Peggy
Valentine; WSSU Faculty
Senate Vice Chair Ludovic
Kovalik; WSSU Staff
Senate President LaTonya
Amos; Mayor Allen Joines;
WSSU Foundation Board
Chair Peggy Carter; The
Winston-Salem Foundation
President Scott Wierman,
WSSU Professor Dennis
Felder; retired educator
Cleveland Ellison; Union
Baptist Pastor Rev. Dr. Sir
Walter Mack Jr.; WSSU
Board of Visitors Member
and Newbridge Bank Vice
President Coretta Bigelow;
and WSSU Board of
Visitors Member and ortho
dontist Dr. L'Tanya Bailey.
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