Gene Woods earns Charlotte Post Foundation Luminary Award – Charlotte Post

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Atrium Health CEO and President Gene Woods is the Charlotte Post Foundation’s 2022 Luminary honoree.

The Charlotte Post Best banquet will celebrate its 25th anniversary this fall by bestowing its highest award – the Luminary – on Atrium Health President and CEO Gene Woods Oct. 8 at the Hilton Charlotte Uptown.

Headquartered in Charlotte, Atrium Health counts more than 70,000 employees at 40 hospitals in six states. Since Woods took the helm in 2016, the system has been recognized as a top employer for diversity as well as for new graduates and women and named among the best places to work in healthcare.

Atrium Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health have combined to create the second campus of Wake Forest School of Medicine which will bring Charlotte a four-year medical school. The campus will be near center city.

“Gene Woods is not only a leader in healthcare, he is a forward-thinking champion of diversity and inclusion for African Americans and other groups traditionally left out of Charlotte’s business and civic mainstream,” said Gerald Johnson, publisher of The Post and president of The Charlotte Post Foundation.

The gala is a major fundraiser for The Charlotte Post Foundation and its education initiatives targeting African Americans. Called the Three C’s, they are:

• Corrective education, focused on remedial reading skills for elementary and middle school students farthest behind grade-level achievement at Walter G. Byers Elementary in the Greenville neighborhood.   

• Continuing education, which recognizes and honors Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ highest-performing Black scholars through the Top Seniors initiative. The foundation provides college scholarships to the senior of the year and runner-up.

• Community education through Black Lives Matter Charlotte, a quarterly program that produces seminars on topics of importance to African Americans, such as education, health care, criminal justice, and upward economic mobility.

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