Cape Fear Valley Health’s Corporate Director of Patient Logistics – Critical Care Transport Brian Langston was honored at the summer meeting of the North Carolina Healthcare Association, where he was awarded the 2022 Healthier Communities Award. Langston was one of 11 people celebrated for their work with the Statewide Patient Movement Coordination Team during the height of COVID-19.

Each honoree was stationed at a different transfer center across North Carolina and worked during the Covid-19 crisis to ensure critical patients needing higher levels of care were transferred or those facilities given additional clinical support. The group is known as the Statewide Patient Movement Coordination Team.

“It was my privilege to represent the commitment of Cape Fear Valley to our communities and the state,” Langston shared in a press release. “I am honored to receive recognition by the North Carolina Healthcare association for that effort. Our success as a SPMCT would not have been possible without the daily dedication of our own Transfer Center and Patient Placement team members in our Command Center and those across the state.”

The SPMCT also assisted 35 facilities not formally connected with the 13 transfer centers across the state who had critical patients needing higher levels of care. The team reviewed a total of 765 patient movement requests during the Delta and Omicron surges of COVID-19. 

The 2022 winners of the Healthier Communities Award were presented their prizes by the N.C. Healthcare Preparedness Program Director and Medical Surge Lead during COVID-19 Kimberly Clement. “These team members embody the spirit of coming together for the betterment of their communities,” Clement shared in a press release.