For unparalleled healthcare, the Piedmont Triad plays host to a number of public and private healthcare facilities, all of which provide quality and highly specialized services. According to the Piedmont Triad Partnership (PTRP), within the 12-county Triad region there are 19 hospitals with more than 4,800 beds.
Triad residents are blessed that they are surrounded by, and taken care of, by some of the most technologically advanced health care providers in the country. From large healthcare centers to smaller, specialized facilities, the Triad has everything to offer in the way of comprehensive, cutting-edge healthcare. The following are just a few of the major healthcare facilities in the area.
Alamance Regional Medical Center
This growing, not-for-profit medical center offers comprehensive health services and includes a medical staff of more than 200 physicians and 238 inpatient beds.
Alamance Regional features a Heart and Vascular Center that includes angioplasty, catheterization and advanced interventional vascular procedures; a Cancer Center that offers national clinical trials and oncology specialty clinics; the BirthPlace and Level II/III Special Care Neonatal Nursery; the Norville Breast Care Center; leading-edge digital imaging; an orthopedics program that is recognized for excellent outcomes; a wide range of and inpatient and outpatient surgery procedures; and rehabilitation care and therapy for all ages.
Recently, Alamance Regional was recognized by Business North Carolina magazine as one of the top ten hospitals in the state for coronary interventional procedures. Its cardiology team offers emergency and elective angioplasty and stent insertion.
Mebane Medical Park and the Mebane Outpatient Center are satellite facilities of Alamance Regional that serve residents of the Mebane area. A state-of-the-art outpatient center includes urgent care, diagnostic imaging, a cancer center, a laboratory, an outpatient surgery center and physician offices.
Other services located on the Alamance Regional campus include a Wound Healing Center, LifeStyle Center, and pain management clinic. For more information about services of Alamance Regional, visit www.armc.com.
Forsyth Medical Center
Forsyth Medical Center (FMC), an affiliate of Novant Health, is a 961-bed, not-for-profit, tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem. The hospital offers a full continuum of emergency, medical, surgical, rehabilitative, and behavioral health services.
FMC offers leading-edge technology, advanced treatments and highly trained physicians and staff. The hospital ranks nationally for quality and has earned Magnet designation for nursing excellence, an honor that only 5 percent of hospitals in the country have achieved.
FMC’s cardiac and vascular center is nationally recognized for quality of care for heart attack and heart failure patients and for cardiovascular surgery programs. The Stroke and Neurosciences Institute was the first in North Carolina to receive the American Heart Association’s Gold Plus Award for stroke treatment and the first in the Mid-Atlantic region to receive the AHA’s Gold Plus Target Stroke Honor Roll recognition for fastest stroke care.
The Orthopaedic Center is nationally certified in Total Hip and Knee Replacement and Hip Fracture Care. The Sara Lee Center for Women’s Health is a high-risk referral center and delivered almost 6,500 babies in 2010. It offers a 54 bed, Level III/IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
In addition, the Sara Lee Center for Women’s Health provides comprehensive services to meet the unique physical and emotional needs of women at all stages of life. FMC’s Cancer Center diagnoses thousands of cases each year making it one of the leading cancer centers in North Carolina and staffed by board-certified doctors and physicians.
High Point Regional Health System
As a not-for-profit health system governed by a volunteer, community-based board of trustees, High Point Regional offers a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient care. High Point Regional Health System’s main facility is High Point Regional Hospital, a medical/surgical facility with more than 400 beds serving the Triad region.
“Since our founding in 1904, we at High Point Regional Health System haven’t forgotten the reason why we are here—to do everything possible to get you well and keep you well,” said Campbell. “With all of our advancements in medicine, nothing can replace getting to know you as a person first. We call it, ‘Total Care. Inside and Out.”
“The core of our reputation resides in comprehensive medical centers we’re proud to claim as Centers of Excellence including: The Cancer Center, Carolina Regional Heart Center, The Emergency Center, Piedmont Joint Replacement Center, The Neuroscience Center and The Women’s Center.”
Other services offered through the Health System include the Rehab Center, the Millis Regional Health Education Center, the Curative Wound Care Center, the Diabetes Self Care Management Center, the Sleep Lab, the Vascular Center and High Point Behavioral Health.
According to Campbell, High Point Regional Health System has several advantages including extremely successful collaborations with physicians, model use of Baldrige criteria and Lean Six Sigma methods and the provision of “Total Care. Inside and Out,” which is the culture of patient-focused excellence that patients and employees say is so special.
High Point Regional’s Charles E. and Pauline Lewis Hayworth Cancer Center was rated as the top Community Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Triad by U.S. News & World Report.
According to the American College of Radiology (ACR), the High Point Regional Cancer Center’s Department of Radiation Oncology has received its highest designation, making it the only ACR-accredited radiation therapy facility in the Piedmont Triad, and one of only two in the state of North Carolina.
Kernersville Medical Center
Kernersville Medical Center, an affiliate of Forsyth Medical Center and Novant Health, is a 50-bed, not-for-profit full-service community hospital in Kernersville.
The hospital offers a full range of medical services, including: an emergency department open 24/7 and staffed by board-certified emergency medicine physicians, an intensive care unit, surgical services, radiology, pharmacy, and inpatient and outpatient care.
At Kernersville Medical Center, patients and their families experience the best of both worlds – a top-notch medical facility staffed by Novant Health employees, combined with a decidedly low-key, intimate patient care environment. There’s a small-town feel surrounding the hospital’s state-of-the-are capabilities – from the easy access parking and cozy cafeteria to the quiet hallways and attentive staff.
Moses Cone Health System
Moses Cone Health System, located in Greensboro, is made up of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Wesley Long Community Hospital, the Women’s Hospital of Greensboro, Annie Penn Hospital in Reidsville, Moses Cone Behavioral Health Center, LeBauer HealthCare, Moses Cone MedCenter High Point, Moses Cone MedCenter Kernersville, and various offices and clinics.
All five hospitals have been re-accredited as Magnet Hospitals. “This is sort of the ‘Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval’ from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Only two-percent of the nation’s 6,000 hospitals achieve successive credentialing,” said Doug Allred, public relations specialist for Moses Cone.
Moses Cone Health System has very strong programs in a several areas. “Our Heart and Vascular Center offers therapies and treatments that are really cutting edge,” Allred said. “LeBauer Cardiovascular Research foundation is based at Moses Cone Hospital. This group takes part in many research studies, which means the cutting edge treatments of tomorrow are available to our patients today.
“Moses Cone Health System also has a tradition of advanced healthcare. Our doctors were among the first anywhere to use angioplasty to treat heart attack. Moses Cone Regional Cancer Center is a leader in using radioactive seeds to treat prostate cancer and now uses them to treat certain lung cancers.”
Moses Cone Regional Cancer Center is home to the only TomoTherapy machine in the state. According to Allred, it provides radiation therapy in thin slices from many angles. It allows doctors to treat head and neck, prostate and some lung cancers while avoiding radiating healthy tissue.
“We have treated skin cancer on a person’s scalp without radiating the brain for example,” Allred said. “The Women’s Hospital is very well known in the area. While it provides a range of women’s services, it is best known for births. It is usually among the top three or four busiest hospitals in the state when it comes to childbirth. With a Level II and Level III neonatal intensive care unit, the staff provides some of the most advanced care around.”
“The people who count on Moses Cone Health System for care are fortunate in that we have three major university medical centers so close by,” Allred continued. “We collaborate in a number of areas such as emergency medicine with Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Moses Cone Health System also hosts medical residents through teaching programs in internal medicine, family practice medicine and pediatrics through programs in cooperation with UNC-Chapel Hill. We combine all of that with our roots as a patient centered community hospital.”
Northern Hospital of Surry County
Located in Mount Airy, Northern Hospital of Surry County provides a comprehensive array of services to meet the ever changing needs of its community. From infant to geriatric care, its staff of compassionate medical professionals is well trained and equipped to care for your family.
“Northern Hospital of Surry County offers a full host of medical services,” said Bill James, chief executive officer of Northern Hospital of Surry County. “We are fortunate to live in a region that has the latest available comprehensive medical services.”
According to James, Northern Hospital of Surry County’s patient outcomes in several specialties have been consistently ranked amongst the top medical facilities in the nation. “In addition, we provide high quality imaging services, surgical services, birthing care, orthopedic care, and emergency services, among other services,” he said. “Here, the people of Surry County recognize their care-givers as their neighbors.”
The March 2011 edition of Business North Carolina magazine lists Northern Hospital of Surry County as one of North Carolina’s best hospitals in Critical Care, Pulmonary Care, and Gastrointestinal Services, Surgery and Treatment. It also noted that Northern Hospital is ranked among the nation’s top 10 percent in Critical Care and Pulmonary Care.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, with more than 13,000 employees, is one of the nation’s preeminent academic medical centers.
It is home to Brenner Children’s Hospital, the only children’s hospital in western North Carolina, which also includes a new state-of-the-art pediatric emergency department. The facility, which opened in April 2011, is the only facility of its kind in North Carolina. It is also one of only 33 facilities in the nation that are listed as a Level I pediatric trauma center by the American College of Surgeons.
Wake Forest Baptist’s Heart Center offers the full range of cardiovascular care, including Western North Carolina’s only advanced cardiac care and transplant program. The Medical Center also serves as the region’s only Level I trauma center, providing 24/7 emergent care to critically ill and injured patients with the help of a fleet of two air ambulances, Air Care. Wake Forest Baptist is also one of 40 Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the U.S. to be designated by the National Cancer Institute for excellence in patient care, research and education.
The neurosciences program provides comprehensive care and is a certified Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission. Wake Forest Baptist also operates the region’s only locally-based Telestroke network that links partner hospitals at Allegheny Memorial Hospital, Ashe Memorial Hospital, Lexington Memorial Hospital, Wilkes Regional Medical Center, and Caldwell Memorial Hospital to stroke neurologists at the Medical Center.
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