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Mountain Valley Hospice names CFO

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care of Mount Airy has announced that Ron Pardue is its new chief financial officer. He will report directly to Executive Director Denise Watson. Pardue comes to Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care with nearly 30 years of professional experience, 25 of them in financial management. Most recently, Pardue was […]

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Crossroads receives $300,000 grant

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Crossroads Behavioral Healthcare, which has offices in Elkin and Mount Airy, will receive a $300,000 grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust of Winston-Salem. The grant will support Communities Caring for Families, the organization’s initiative to more than double services to children ages 10 to 16 in Surry and Yadkin counties. Crossroads Behavioral Healthcare […]

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Physical therapy clinic opens north of Mount Airy

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Casey A. Vedder has opened White Sulphur Springs Physical Therapy at 2994 Riverside Drive just north of Willis Gap Road outside Mount Airy. The clinic shares the building also occupied by Dr. Robert W. Hower’s White Sulphur Springs Chiropractic Center. Vedder earned a bachelor’s degree at St. Johns University in Collegeville, Minn., and his master’s […]

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Parking moved as hospital starts construction

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Because construction work on the new Surgical Services building is about to begin, Northern Hospital of Surry County has closed its main public, patient, and visitor parking in front of the Martin Memorial Building on Rockford Street in Mount Airy. Motorists will be redirected to the Worth Street parking lot. Signs will be posted. A […]

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Northern Hospital adds faster CT imaging system

December 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Northern Hospital of Surry County in Mount Airy has acquired a state-of-the-art LightSpeed® VCT (volume computed tomography) imaging system from GE Healthcare. The system’s high-resolution, high-speed CT angiography will help physicians gather information they need to better diagnose diseases and life­-threatening conditions including cardiovascular disease and strokes. In a single rotation, the LightSpeed VCT creates […]

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Samantha Berryman to head Health & Nutrition Center

December 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Samantha Berryman of Elkin will be the interim director of the Surry County Health & Nutrition Center. Berryman is a registered dietitian with more than 12 years of experience in public health. She succeeds David Stone who resigned effective Jan. 1 to become director of the N.C. Local Health Department Accreditation Program. The Surry County […]

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Northern Hospital of Surry County will begin construction in January

December 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Northern Hospital of Surry County will begin its $22-million Surgical Services Relocation Project in January. A 58,000-square-foot addition will go up at the south end of the hospital’s main campus on Rockford Street in Mount Airy. The building will be the future home of Inpatient and Outpatient Surgery, Day Surgery, GI Endoscopy, Pre-Admission Testing, Anesthesia, […]

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$11 million in construction ahead in Surry County

November 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Surry County has issued $11 million in building permits, Editor Andy Matthews reports in the Mount Airy News. The projects include several we’ve reported before, including the first phase ($1.4 million) of Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital’s $48-million expansion and improvement project in Elkin. “Elkin is actually undergoing a ‘mini-construction’ boom,” Matthews reports, “with the hospital […]

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Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital begins expansion

November 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Only two years after completing a $20-million project that added surgical space and imaging equipment, Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital in Elkin has started a three-year-long, $48-million program that will renovate and enlarge the hospital’s emergency room and intensive-care unit, put an addition on the cardiology center, upgrade the comprehensive cancer unit, improve the medical/surgical nursing […]

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Construction beginning on Woltz Hospice Home

October 1st, 2007 · No Comments

A groundbreaking ceremony at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, will mark the official start of construction on The Joan & Howard Woltz Hospice Home at 945 Zephyr Road (adjacent to Surry Central Middle School) in Dobson. The inpatient and residential facility will serve patients at the end of life in Surry, Yadkin and surrounding counties. […]

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