Healthcare
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. 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. Vidant Health, our regional health care system, is one of the most progressive not-for-profit health care systems and reaches more than 1.4 million people across 29 counties. The system of care includes the following:
- Vidant Medical Center – a level I trauma center and the teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine
- Eight community hospitals
- Vidant Medical Group – primary care and specialty services which has received several top health care awards
- Vidant Home Health & Hospice
- Vidant Wellness Centers
- Vidant Health Foundation
- Maynard Children’s Hospital
- Vidant Cancer Care at the Eddie and Jo Allison Smith
Pitt County has the third highest per capita ratio of physicians to population in the state of North Carolina. Following are some of the public medical facilities serving local and regional populations: James Bernstein Community Health Center, ECU Biotechnology Center, ECU Family Medicine Center, Eastern Area Health Education Center, Eastern Carolina Vocational Center, Walter B. Jones Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center and Veteran’s Administration Health Care Center. There are many more 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.
