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Dole visits PCMH
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., praised Pitt County Memorial Hospital and its parent corporation Tuesday morning for delivering state-of-the-art health care to eastern North Carolina.
Dole, who is completing her first term in the U.S. Senate, toured University Health Systems Children’s Hospital, located on the PCMH campus, the day after participating in a Republican voters rally with GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
“It’s so impressive to me what they are doing with the neonatal unit,” Dole said. “These folks are visionary.”
She also toured the new Heart Center’s six-story, $150 million patient care tower. The 120-bed structure is scheduled to open early next year.
The Children’s Hospital had 6,513 inpatient admissions in fiscal year 2008. The hospital, which services as a teaching institution for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, operates a pediatric outpatient center that cares for nearly 52,000 patients annually.
Hospital administrators want to expand the existing facility which has 50 beds.
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By 83Pirate
October 8, 2008 8:11 PM | Link to this
Liddy is not known or welcome back in Salisbury so I guess she is trying her luck out East. Liddy has not lived in NC in 40+ years. The people who live on the street of her Mom’s house have not seen her in decades.
Apparently people had to be shipped into Greenville from all over the state to have a big crowd. Maybe the people out East are too smart for these political antics.