Healthcare

Healthcare

Healthcare – Key Factor Summary

• Regional health care center serving 29 county region and more than 1.3 million people
• Pitt County Memorial Hospital (PCMH) is one of four designated Level I Trauma Centers in North Carolina and serves as the teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine at ECU
• Over 60% of PCMH patient load originates outside Pitt County
• PCMH has active medical staff of over 700 representing more than 70 medical specialties
• Specialized services include chemotherapy, open heart surgery, gamma knife surgery, and organ transplants
• PCMH is the only Certified Primary Stroke Center in eastern North Carolina and treats over 700 strokes annually. The Center was recently presented with the “Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award” by the American Heart Association for providing and maintaining high-quality stroke care
• Pitt County among top 3 counties in N.C. for physicians per person ratio
• PCMH named among Top 100 Hospitals in US by Solucient and a Top 100 company for working moms by Working Mother magazine
• Room and service rates compare very favorably with state and national rates
• First medical center in N.C. to start air ambulance service (helicopter) for critically ill. PCMH now has three helicopters in its air transport fleet.
• Ronald McDonald House for families of seriously ill children; McConnell-Raab Hope Lodge for cancer patients and caregivers
• The Heart Institute at ECU for cardiovascular outpatient services and research opened in July. The 120-bed Heart Institute at PCMH opened in January 2009.
• Other area specialized facilities include public, mental health, alcoholic and vocational rehabilitation centers
• Several rest homes, nursing homes, and assisted living centers in area
• Brody School of Medicine research and special care centers complement local health care providers
• Private emergency care clinics available for non-critical emergency treatment

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Greenville/Pitt County: A regional health care center

The creation of the School of Medicine at East Carolina University in 1972, followed by the construction of a modern medical center in 1976, established Greenville/Pitt County as a regional health care center in Eastern North Carolina. Pitt County has the third highest per capita ratio of physicians to population in the state of North Carolina.

Emergence as a major medical center has required the constant creation and expansion of services and new facilities to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding regional population. One such facility and service is the Ronald McDonald House, a temporary place of residence for families of critically ill children being treated at the medical center.

The following is a list of public medical facilities serving local and regional populations:

• Children’s Hospital of Eastern NC
• ECU Biotechnology Center
• Brody School of Medicine
• Eastern Area Health Education Center
• Eastern Carolina Family Practice Center
• Eastern Carolina Radiation Oncology Center
• Eastern Carolina Vocational Center
• Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center
• Pitt County Public Health Center
• Pitt County Memorial Hospital
• PCMH Birthing Center
• PCMH Regional Rehabilitation Center
• James Bernstein Community Health Center
• Ronald McDonald House of Eastern NC
• SurgiCenter Services of Pitt, Inc.
• Walter B. Jones Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center
• ECU Pediatric Outpatient Center
• Eastern Carolina Heart Institute
• McConnell-Raab Hope Lodge
• ViQuest Wellness Center

All of these facilities are located in the medical district, with the exception of the Vocational Center, the Public Health Center, and the Bernstein Community Health Center which are located in the Greenville Industrial Park. There are many other private, for-profit centers providing health care to regional populations in such areas as neurology, plastic surgery, C-T scanning, home health, radiology, and physical therapy.

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