University Health Systems

University Health Systems

In 1998, PCMH was transformed from a publicly owned hospital with a mission of regional service to a private, not-for-profit five-hospital regional health care system. The reorganization enables the hospital and its health system to compete more effectively with other health systems, thus ensuring the availability of high quality care, clinical staff and physicians into the foreseeable future.

UHS is one of the largest health systems in North Carolina and consists of eight hospitals and several subsidiaries. Serving 29 counties and 1.3 million people, it provides comprehensive, leading-edge services that cover every aspect of health care. The system also includes physician practices, home health, hospice, wellness centers and other health care services. UHS is affiliated with the Brody School of Medicine.

Subsidiaries and affiliates:

1) East Carolina Health serves as the governing liaison and management oversight division for UHS community hospitals. Those hospitals are:

• Heritage Hospital in Tarboro, a 117-bed facility owned by UHS;
• The Outer Banks Hospital in Nags Head, a 21-bed facility jointly owned with Chesapeake Regional Medical Center;
• Bertie Memorial Hospital in Windsor, a 6-bed critical access hospital leased by UHS;
• Chowan Hospital in Edenton, an 89-bed facility leased by UHS;
• Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie, a 114-bed facility leased by UHS;
• Duplin General Hospital in Kenansville, a 101-bed facility leased by UHS; and
• Albemarle Health in Elizabeth City, a 182-bed facility managed by UHS

2) HealthAccess is an umbrella organization focusing on hospice, home health care, and wellness programs through ViQuest. ViQuest wellness centers are located in Greenville and Ahoskie.

3) Pitt County Memorial Hospital (PCMH) is a 861-bed tertiary referral facility in Greenville that also serves as the teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine. PCMH offers state-of-the-art care through its services including the East Carolina Heart Institute, the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center, the Regional Rehabilitation Center, the Children’s Hospital, the Level I Trauma and Critical Care Center, the Bariatric Surgery Center, and the Women’s Center.

PCMH 2010 Fiscal Year Highlights:

• Opened the new Service League Interfaith Chapel;
• Cancer Services earned re-accreditation from the American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Cancer;
• Five nurses from PCMH were named to North Carolina’s Great 100 list;
• Heart Institute earned the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses; and
• Opened Onslow Radiation Oncology in a joint venture with Onslow Memorial Hospital.

4) SurgiCenter of Eastern Carolina, LLC in Greenville is a freestanding, not-for-profit ambulatory surgery center. The 32,500 sf center is staffed by 170 physicians and support personnel.

5) UHS Physicians – a division to manage and recruit physicians and physician practices.

6) Five regional hospitals have formal affiliation agreements with UHS. These are Beaufort County Hospital in Washington, Carteret General Hospital in Morehead City, Halifax Regional Medical Center in Roanoke Rapids, Onslow Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, and Pungo District Hospital in Belhaven.

For more information: www.uhseast.com. Click here for a map showing UHS’s service territory.

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