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Regional Briefs: Avon presents big grant to medical center
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Published: November 27, 2008
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has received a $375,000 grant from the Avon Foundation toward community outreach and innovative patient services at N.C. Baptist Hospital.
The grant was part of about $1.05 million in initial grants presented to four organizations.
Baptist received the largest of the four grants. Other recipients were Presbyterian Hospital, Carolinas Medical Center and the Health Research Alliance, all based in Charlotte.
The grant will help finance the Survivors in Service Navigation network, which works to reduce disparities in breast-health care within the black community.
The grant will help the program expand its services to include more patients from surrounding rural counties, and it will add genetic testing and counseling.
The Charlotte Avon Walk raised more than $2.8 million and attracted 1,350 participants from 41 states, including 108 breast-cancer survivors.
Man charged with DWI to face more counts after patient dies
LEXINGTON -- A Lexington man is facing additional charges in a Nov. 15 accident after one of the passengers in his car died Tuesday morning, the N.C. Highway Patrol said yesterday.
Kurtis Scott Underwood, 28, of 5365 Highway 150 in Lexington, is already facing charges of driving while intoxicated, driving while license revoked and not having car insurance.
The accident happened at 4:51 p.m. Nov. 15. Underwood was driving east on Community Road, which is about 3 miles west of the town of Midway, when his pickup ran off the right side of the road, crossed the centerline and then ran off the left side of the road. The pickup hit a ditch, hit a utility pole and turned over, coming to rest on the road, according to the highway patrol.
Eric Scott of Clemmons and Woodrow Poindexter of Lexington were passengers in the pickup. All three men were taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Poindexter, 60, died Tuesday morning, the highway patrol said.
Lexington man charged with stabbing brother in leg, back
LEXINGTON -- A man is facing charges of stabbing his brother, the Davidson County Sheriff's Office said yesterday.
Deputies responded to a report of an assault at 547 Norman Shoaf Road on Monday. They later found Edward Young, 44, at Forsyth Medical Center. According to the Davidson County Sheriff's Office, the man had been stabbed in the leg and in the back by his brother, Alvin Young Jr.
Alvin Young Jr., 43, of 2737 Craver Drive was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. He was released on a $50,000 secured bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 17.
Man who was shot killed one assailant, wounded another
CHARLOTTE -- Police say that a Charlotte man who was shot during a robbery at his home managed to wrestle a gun away from the two burglars, killing one and wounding another.
Authorities say that Riccorian Lahaorris Smith, 28, was shot during the incident yesterday. Police believe that two men broke into Smith's home shortly after 5:30 a.m. Smith confronted the men and was shot in the lower abdomen. Investigators say that he managed to gain control of the gun and shot both suspects.
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