Award-winning Medical Teams Serve Patients at Several Locations in Rocky Mount
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Health care is important to everyone – so much that recent studies show the majority of Americans consider health-care coverage as important as career considerations.
Fortunately‚ residents of Rocky Mount and the sur rounding areas have a number of excellent providers from which to choose.
The network of the Nash Health Care System is second to none. The system features Nash General Hospital and its range of services from surgery to weight loss‚ the Nash Day Hospital with its cancer treatment center‚ the Bryant T. Aldridge Rehabilitation Hospital‚ the Coastal Plain Hospital specializing in psychiatric and psychological care‚ and the Emergency Care Center.
The 160-acre campus is home to all of these facilities. The campus is one mile east of Interstate 95 adjacent to Highway 64. The system is the county’s second-largest employer‚ with 2‚000 employees on its roster.
Nash Health Care strives to stay on the leading edge of medical technology‚ says President and CEO Rick Toomey.
“We invest heavily into the expansion of our services each year‚” Toomey says. “We re-invest $15 to $20 million each year back into the system to improve and to stay ahead in technology and equipment. We spent $26 million for the new surgery pavilion in 2004. It’s an ongoing thing we have to do.”
One of the most recent and important investments was the purchase of a new Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy unit for the Nash Cancer Treatment Center. The unit provides a much more focused beam of radiation in tumor treatment and causes less damage to healthy cells.
“This puts us at the front of radiation therapy. Not just here; it is state of the art nationally‚” Toomey says. “We are here to make an impact and be an asset to the community and beyond.”
In March 2007‚ Business North Carolina magazine named Nash Health Care System as one of the top 10 providers in the state for its track record of care in general surgery‚ stroke and orthopedics.
Outstanding care is also the rule at Boice-Willis Clinic‚ a network of seven medical offices‚ including a new clinic in the north corridor that serves the Belmont Village and Ford’s Colony area.
The clinics offer a broad range of services‚ from imaging to physical therapy‚ immediate care‚ endoscopy and labora tory services.
Established in 1913 by Drs. E.S. Boice and B.C. Willis‚ the clinic now has 66 providers and 400 employees. It is one of the largest multi-specialty practices in eastern North Carolina.
“We have tried to stay ahead with our services‚” CEO Gary Fazio says. “We are constantly recruiting in our primary and specialized care areas. And most recently we have invested money into our areas of nuclear and diagnostic medicine‚ as well as into our new endoscopy suite.”
Other medical options for area residents include LifeCare Hospital and Heritage Hospital.
Heritage‚ which primarily serves Tarboro and surrounding communities in Edgecombe County‚ is a 127-bed acute care facility with a wide range of services and is a part of the network of University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina.
LifeCare Hospital of Rocky Mount specializes in patients that require extended stays of 25 days or more as a result of traumatic injury or illness. LifeCare has 50 beds and 39 physicians on staff.
Story by Warren Denney
Photo by Ian Curcio
