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Gale Adcock
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Chief Health Officer

Gale Adcock was formerly the SAS Chief Health Officer. A nurse practitioner with 30+ years of health care experience, she helped evolve the SAS Health Care Center to a 55 staff member, full-service primary care center seeing an average of 170 patients a day and saving SAS in excess of $8 million a year in avoided health insurance expenditures and employee time savings. She retired in 2021.

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35 (not an Adele album)

In July 1984 I was a public health nurse assigned to Willow Spring, Holly Springs and Fuquay, bustling between three public schools, home health visits, and a clinic on Fuquay Avenue that shared space with the local DMV office—a small white frame house divided in half to provide two essential

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Coughing, fever, sore throat...oh my!

February may be a short month, but it's packed: Groundhog Day, the Super Bowl, Valentine's Day...and the flu. Flu season is a lot like watching a sunrise. When flu season begins each Oct 1 there is a great sense of anticipation as the HCC administers thousands of flu shots and begins reporting flu and influenza-type illnesses to