Wake County Commissioners will soon make the most consequential decision of their tenures—whether OUR hospital remains accountable to the people of Wake County or if it is turned over to a private multi-billion dollar entity.

Join us on Monday, July 6th at 1pm for a press conference to call on our County Commissioners to say NO to the Atrium takeover of WakeMed. Following the press conference we invite everyone to attend the Wake County Commission’s meeting at 2pm.

Hospital mergers increase costs and don’t improve the quality of care. Our hospital is far too valuable a shared resource to be handed over through a secretive process with limited transparency and debate. WakeMed is especially critical to Southeast Raleigh, and is an essential community asset in the historically Black part of our city.

We are circulating this petition letter that we invite the community to sign onto to demand WakeMed stay our community’s hospital.

An Atrium takeover of WakeMed would surrender community control of this invaluable community resource and put the quality of our local healthcare at risk. The health of our community is too important to hand over to an outside entity.

Organizational Endorsements:

• Men of Southeast Raleigh
• Raleigh-Apex NAACP
• The Patients Union
• UU Justice Ministry of NC
• NC Justice Center
• NC Poor People’s Campaign

** Fill out this form if you wish to add your organization to the letter.