6./ Healthcare in Currituck Quality Healthcare for Currituck County Quality healthcare is available to all of Currituck County’s residents and visitors through medical practices located throughout the county and the surrounding areas. Three hospitals serve the county: Sentara Albemarle Medical Center in Elizabeth City, Chesapeake General Hospital in Chesapeake, Virginia, and The Outer Banks Hospital in Nags Head. Additional access to medical care is available in other cities of southeast Hampton Roads (Virginia) as well as Greenville, NC. In addition to the services offered at the nearby hospitals, Sentara Albemarle Medical Center offers medical services on the Outer Banks through Sentara Kitty Hawk. The main branch, which also provides emergency care, is in Kitty Hawk. The Outer Banks Hospital offers an Urgent Care Center, located at The MarketPlace in Southern Shores (MP 1). On the northern end of the Currituck mainland there is Currituck Internal Medicine & Family Practice. Albemarle Regional Health Services (ARHS), the regional public health agency, administers the county’s health department located in the Governmental Complex in Currituck, with health services offered to all county residents and visitors. ARHS has served Currituck County since 1995, ARHS provides Children’s Developmental Services Agency, Environmental Health Services, Clinical Services including Maternal, Child, and Women’s Preventive Health, Communicable Disease Services, Inter-County Public Transportation-ICPTA, Public Health Preparedness and Response, and Health Education as well as community health outreach programming. Medical Services of America has recently acquired Albemarle Home Care. Albemarle Home Care has been providing nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and nurse aide services in the homes of Currituck County residents for over 40 years. Albemarle Hospice, since 1992, continues to provide hospice services in the homes and nursing homes through a team approach which include the patient/family, physicians, nurses, nurse aides, social worker, chaplain and volunteers. Albemarle Home Care and Albemarle Hospice provide the highest quality of care and are accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Home Care. The adult day health care center, DayBreak, is located in Elizabeth City, NC and welcomes residents of Currituck County to utilize this progressive alternative care to those needing 24-hour supervision or assistance due to frail medical conditions. Transportation to the Center and throughout Currituck is available through the ICPTA. The Currituck House, located 1 mile South of the Virginia border in Moyock, is a new and modern 90-bed Assisted Living facility which also includes a secure 48-bed Memory Care unit. The facility is designed and staffed 24-hours a day to care for older adults who have physical or memory impairment and need assistance with personal care, medication administration and other life needs provided in a safe and secure environment. Skilled nursing services and long-term care are provided to Currituck County at the Sentara Nursing Center in Barco, (252) 457-0500. The 100-bed facility has been serving the Currituck community since 1988. It offers 25 beds reserved for residents in need of skilled nursing care or therapy services, including physical, occupational and speech therapies. The facility has 75 beds designated for long-term care, for those residents who need assistance with activities of daily living. In addition to around-theclock care, Sentara Nursing Center also offers outpatient physical, occupational and speech therapy services at the Currituck Family YMCA. Your Choice for Great Health Care Currituck Internal Medicine & Family Practice 534 Caratoke Highway, Moyock, NC 27958 252-435-6621 Carolina Surgical Care & Breast Center 1138 North Road St., Elizabeth City, NC 27909 252-335-4890 www.chesapeakeregional.com currituckchamber.org | (252) 453-9497 17
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