East Carolina University, in
Greenville, is the third largest institution of higher learning in
North Carolina's highly respected 17 unit system. Its faculties in
business, industrial technology and medical and scientific fields
form a much-utilized pool of immediately accessible consultation.
Innovative programs like the new CIM (Computer Integrated
Manufacturing) project - a joint university-industry effort - are
becoming particularly valuable resources.
East Carolina University is also
the home of one of four major medical schools in North Carolina. In
association with Pitt County Memorial Hospital, ECU's medical school
forms a regional medical center, including a Level I Trauma Center,
a neo-natal intensive care unit and organ transplant facilities. It
is one of only two medical facilities in the state offering bone
marrow transplants.
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The University also boasts the
important Biotechnology Research Center and a voice-video network
with other major universities and the Micro electronics Center of
North Carolina. This fine teaching hospital does not exist alone.
Well-staffed and fully equipped regional hospitals exist in major
Corridor cities. Each is linked, in case of need, to the university
medical center by emergency helicopter service. Good health is not
only a way of life in the Coastal Corridor; it is also big business.
Numerous pharmaceutical and health care facilities are found in the
area, including the North American manufacturing center of the giant
Burroughs-Wellcome Corporation. |
The Roanoke Chowan Hospital,
located in Ahoskie, offers the residents of the area excellent care.
It has well-equipped medical, surgical and obstetrical departments,
as well as a pediatric ward. The emergency room is staffed 24 hours
a day. The Roanoke Chowan Mental Health Service is located in Union
about two miles from Ahoskie.
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