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Cardiac Center Expands Services at Halifax Regional
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With its new Cardiac & Vascular Center, as well as a team of cardiologists and range of heart-related services and procedures, Halifax Regional is poised to become the area’s go-to hospital for all things coronary.
Since its founding in 1912, Halifax Regional has been devoted to offering core medical services to Halifax, Northampton, Warren and Gates counties in North Carolina, as well as Mecklenburg, Brunswick and Greensville counties in Virginia. The 206-bed facility sees around 42,000 emergency room visits per year, a testament to its role the area’s major healthcare provider.
Serving a largely rural and economically depressed population has meant that the hospital has added to its specialty programs over time, as many residents in the region are unwilling or unable to travel long distances for such vital procedures as cardiac catheterization. Meeting those needs locally is why the $2.5 million Cardiac & Vascular Center was developed.
“It was driven primarily by need,” says Bruce Robistow, administrative director of diagnostic services. “We’re in the northeastern corner of North Carolina, and for anybody to have these types of services before, they had to travel at least 100 miles to get it done. This is just the latest way for us to reach out and meet the needs of our community in the same way we do for every other aspect of care and service we provide.”
The Cardiac & Vascular Center offers cardiac catheterization, angiograms, treatment for peripheral vascular disease and other services. Physicians from Raleigh Cardiology staff the Center, working closely with cardiologists and internal medicine specialists in Roanoke Rapids.
Creating a healthier community is worth the investment in the cardiac center, as well as the other improvements the hospital is constantly making to its services. Recently, the hospital has invested more than $5 million in diagnostic imaging technology.
Robistow says Halifax Regional’s offerings stack up well against much larger medical centers.
“For the size we are, and for our demographics, we’re on the cutting edge in many ways and exceed a lot of opportunities offered by hospitals bigger than us,” he says. “I expect that with our cardiac center we’ll be able to reach out into several other counties beyond the ones we serve. People around here are very excited to see their hospital expand and stay modern to meet their needs. This really will change things around here.”
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