Rex Hospital and Sweet Tomatoes have teamed up this month to offer folks a free lunch or dinner when they complete an online assessment for heart disease risks.

Go HERE to read the story by award-winning GQ writer Brett Martin.

Reporter John Frank was at the meeting of  the House Select Committee on State Assets, which was discussing whether UNC Health Care should own Rex Hospital, among other things. By John's account, it was not a very comfortable meeting for the UNC Health Care brass. Read his Dome post. 

Recently, reporter Jane Stancill wrote a story talking about how the UNC system had lost a lot of its allies in the legislature. Her story and John's reporting today are connected.

Two cardiothoracic surgeons are leaving Carolina Cardiovascular Surgical Associates to form a new practice affiliated with Rex Healthcare.

The two surgeons, Lance E. Landvater and Robert B. Peyton, are the latest Wake County doctors to change affiliations, moves that are being driven by both competition between and Rex and federal health care reform.

The two were part of an 8-surgeon team at Carolina Cardiovascular Surgical Associates. The practice is based at WakeMed but the group's surgeons have privileges to operate at both hospitals.

Landvater and Peyton will be co-medical directors of the new Rex practice, to be called Rex Cardiothoracic Surgery Specialists.

The Triangle's recreational golfers have the chance to play a round of
golf with national sports figures and celebrities when brothers and NFL
players Torry Holt and Terrence Holt host their eighth annual Holt
Brothers Celebrity Weekend this month.

The weekend will begin with the April 17 Charity Social open to the
public at Solas restaurant in downtown Raleigh. Then, the Celebrity
Golf Classic will be played April 18 at the new Lonnie Poole Golf
Course on N.C. State’s Centennial Campus. Each foursome in the
tournament will have a celebrity captain.

The events raise money for The Holt Foundation and its efforts to
assist families faced with cancer through the KidsCan! Progam at Rex
Hospital in Raleigh.