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At the Hospitals

Providence OB/GYN, serves as medical neurosurgery at the University of Florida,
director of the center and his practice is
on-call and ready to handle complicated an assistant professorship
deliveries. Visit babyandcompany.com for
more information or call 704-750-5535. in neurological surgery at

n Clinic Provides Counseling and Vanderbilt University and
Vaccinations for Global Travelers
n Novant Health to Launch Family experience as a practicing
Medicine Residency Novant Health Infectious Disease
Specialists in Charlotte now provides travel physician with Lee Memorial
Novant Health will launch its first medicine services and is uniquely prepared to
family medicine residency program – the deal with travel to Latin and South America, Eric Eskioglu, MD Health System in Florida. Dr.
third in the Charlotte region – in July Southeast Asia and Africa, where typhoid,
2016, when six medical school graduates malaria, yellow fever and other diseases Eskioglu can be reached at 704-316-3070.
begin training. The program has received are encountered. The clinic’s providers,
accreditation from the Accreditation William Harley, MD, Michael Blocker, n Novant Health Presbyterian Medical
Council for Graduate Medical Education MD, and Carmen Tichindelean, MD, have
and the American Osteopathic Association. extensive backgrounds in travel medicine. Center Receives National Recognition
Mark Higdon, DO, is the residency program Appointments are available Monday through
director. For more information about the Friday, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and can be for Surgical Patient Care
residency program, visit NovantHealth. made by calling 704-316-5330.
org/fmresidency. The American College of Surgeons
n Novant Health Opens Neurosurgery National Surgical Quality Improvement
n Charlotte’s First Non-Hospital Based Clinic in Charlotte Program (ACS NSQIP) has recognized
Birth Center Opens Presbyterian Medical Center as one of 52
Novant Health Neurosurgery Specialists ACS NSQIP participating hospitals that have
Charlotte’s first freestanding birth center, recently opened at 2801 Randolph Road achieved meritorious outcomes for surgical
a collaboration between Baby & Co. and staffed by Eric Eskioglu, MD, who patient care.
Novant Health, opened at 131 Providence is certified by the American Board of
Road, a few blocks from Presbyterian Neurological Surgery. Eskioglu brings n Campbell Elected Vice Chair of 2016
Medical Center. Staffed by certified nurse a vast amount of experience including
midwives, the center has three labor and a fellowship in endovascular/vascular North Carolina Board of Nursing
delivery rooms that feature a home-like
setting complete with soaking tub for water Pat Campbell, vice president of Women’s
births. Chris Morris, MD, of Novant Health
Services for the Greater Charlotte Market,

has been elected Vice Chair

of the North Carolina Board

of Nursing for 2016. The

Vice Chair position oversees

the Licensure Hearing

Pat Campbell committee, as well as the

Board of Governance.

n New Orthopedic Hospital Breaks Ground NATIONAL
HEALTH &
Novant Health recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for its $60-million renovation WELLNESS
and addition to its Charlotte Orthopedic Hospital at Caswell and Randolph roads. The OBSERVANCES
project will be in two phases. The first phase, to be completed by November 2017,
includes a three-story 89,000-square-foot tower with 32 inpatient beds, rehabilitation JANUARY 2016
facilities and seven operating rooms. The second phase, to be completed by November
2018, will include renovating 85,000 square-feet of existing space to create an outpatient
surgery center and support departments such as surgery prep and recovery, sterile
processing and family waiting rooms.

Cervical Health Awareness Month
National Birth Defects Prevention Month

National Blood Donor Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month

January 3-9: National Folic Acid
Awareness Week

January 24-30: National Certified
Nurse Anesthetists Week

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