Medical Center owned by Sampson County, Leadership, Acute Care Division, Skilled Nursing Division, Home Health Division, Outpatient Diagnostics, Physicians, Emergency Services, Annual Gross Revenues of 120 Million Dollars, 250,000 Square Feet in Medical Campus, Clinical Affiliations, Educational Affiliations, Fully Accredited By The Joint Commission On Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Patient Satisfaction, History, Contact Us
Medical Center owned by Sampson County
The hospital was founded in November of 1949 and is a nonprofit organization. Sampson County is the owner of Sampson Regional Medical Center and leases the hospital to Sampson Regional Medical Center, Inc. to operate the hospital. A 15-member Board of Trustees, the chairman of which is Mr. Allie Ray McCullen, governs the medical center. The appointment of the trustees made and approved by the Sampson County Commissioners. Sampson Regional Medical Center operates financially independent of the county and receives no county tax dollars.
Leadership
David Masterson joined Sampson Regional Medical Center as the Chief Executive Officer on November 3, 2008. Mr. Masterson has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Old Dominion University and a master's degree in health administration from Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College of Virginia. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He comes to Sampson Regional with a very successful career of hospital administration in both North Carolina and Virginia.
Acute Care Division
116 beds; all private rooms with private baths. State-of-the-art technology, including clinical computers, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, MRI, CT, lithotripsy, cardiac monitoring, laproscopic surgery. 8-bed Intensive Care Unit. A dedicated women's unit with 11 beds and a 9-bed pediatric unit.
Skilled Nursing Division
30-bed, in-house unit.
Home Health Division
37,000 annual home visits providing the following services: skilled nursing, speech therapy, physical and occupational therapy, home health aides, personal care services, private duty services, social work. Also coordinates assistance for hospice care, IV therapy, and medical equipment supplies. Offers the CAP MR/DD program for mentally and developmentally disabled individuals; CAP-DA, a home-based program for disabled adults; and CAP-C for mentally fragile children.
Outpatient Diagnostics
In November of 2007, the hospital opened a new Outpatient Diagnostics Center two blocks from the hospital on Beaman Street. This 11,000 square foot facility houses state-of-the-art imaging technology that includes a short-bore MRI, CT, nuclear medicine, mammography, ultrasound, radiography, and bone density testing. The center features a women's area dedicated entirely to women's radiology services. The center is an all-digital and completely state-of-the-art in terms of patient services, technology, and convenience.
Physicians
51 Active, 12 Affiliate, 14 Emergency Dept. Specialities represented are Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, Urology, Radiology, Pathology, Dermatology, Hospital Medicine, Radiation Oncology and Anesthesiology.
Emergency Services
Sampson Regional Medical Center contracts with The Schumacher Group for Emergency Department physician and physician assistant coverage. The department operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A new Fast Track area opened in December 2009 that has greatly improved timeliness of care and patient satisfaction.
Annual Gross Revenues of 120 Million Dollars
650 employees. Revenues in excess of expenses are used to acquire state-of-the-art technology and equipment and expand and/or improve services.
250,000 Square Feet in Medical Campus
In addition to the hospital, SRMC owns the Woodside Professional Building and Sampson Home Health. The Outpatient Rehab Center occupies approximately 15,000 square feet and the new Center for Health and Wellness which opened in January 2005 occupies an additional 42,000 square feet. The hospital opened the Sampson Regional Cancer Center, a facility providing radiation oncology, in September 2006 and also owns the four buildings in the Medical Park that is located across the street from the hospital. The Outpatient Diagnostics Center was added in 2007. Priority Care, which opened in September 2009, is the newest service added to the hospital campus.
Clinical Affiliations
Air ambulance services and referral network for tertiary care. In collaboration with Dr. William N. Newman of Wake Heart Associates, SRMC offers a Cardiac Rehab program, as well as a Heart Clinic and a Congestive Heart Failure program in partnership with WakeMed. The Cardiac Rehab program is based in the Outpatient Rehab Center and the heart clinic programs are located in the Woodside Professional Building.
Educational Affiliations
Sampson Regional serves as a training site for students entering numerous healthcare fields including nursing, radiology, pharmacy, rehab services, social services, certified nursing assistant, emergency room technician and respiratory therapy.
Fully Accredited By The Joint Commission On Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
All divisions of the hospital (acute care, laboratory, skilled care, and home care) scored in the 90s in the 2007 survey visit.
Patient Satisfaction
Sampson Regional uses Press Ganey Associates for patient satisfaction measurement. We currently survey inpatient and outpatient discharges and Emergency Department encounters. Satisfaction teams composed of front-line employees and managers measure, monitor, educate and motivate staff with regard to patient and employee satisfaction initiatives.
History
Sampson County Memorial Hospital was dedicated on October 5, 1950 and cost $1,053,369 at the time of completion. Construction of the hospital was financed with a $229,000 general obligation bond issue and a $1 million federal government grant. This was the only time in the sixty-year history of the hospital that Sampson County had to issue bonds for the hospital.
The original hospital had a total of 100 beds and was considered one of the most modern of its size in the country. It employed 41 personnel and had a 20-member medical staff headed by chief surgeon Dr. William Walton Kitchin. Joseph L. Boyette served as chairman of the Board of Trustees and James M. DeVane was the first administrator.
Through the years, the hospital has undergone numerous major expansion efforts, all of which have been financed by the hospital with some assistance from the Duke Endowment and the federal government. The first project, completed in 1956, involved the addition of an emergency room, radiology, central sterilization, a recovery room, medical records, and storage facilities. Central air conditioning was also installed.
By the late 50's the hospital's 100 beds were taxed to capacity, so a construction project to add 45 more beds was begun in 1960. The project included expansion of the administrative area, additional diagnostic radiology facilities, relocation of the morgue, and renovation of the kitchen. A central vacuum and oxygen supply system was also installed.
More beds were added in 1967 increasing the hospital's bed capacity to 170. A physical therapy department was added and several areas were expanded or upgraded.
The five-story Woodside Professional Building was added to the hospital complex in 1970. The structure was built specifically to provide office facilities for physicians. A connecting corridor linked the building to the hospital giving physicians immediate access to hospital facilities. The Woodside building enabled the hospital to recruit specialists that might not normally relocate to a small town.
In the 80's the trend in hospitals shifted to treating patients on an ambulatory basis, as opposed to inpatient. In anticipation of this trend, the hospital constructed the $6.6 million Diagnostic and Treatment Building which was dedicated on July 20, 1980. The ultra-modern facility included a surgical suite with six operating rooms, a recovery room, an intensive care unit, radiology, nuclcear medicine, respiratory therapy, a stress testing lab, electrocardiography, and a new emergency department with seven trauma beds, six private treatment rooms and a cast room.
On November 1, 1981, the Lundy Memorial Pediatric Unit opened along with new laboratory, physical therapy, and pharmacy facilities. An Intensive Care step-down unit and waiting area also opened as part of this expansion project.
In 1987, due to critical shortage of long-term care beds in Sampson County, the hospital converted 30 acute beds into skilled nursing beds. This left a total of 116 beds for acute care patients.
In the 90's the emphasis of health care continued to be on outpatient and ambulatory services. Gone were the days of lengthy inpatient stays for procedures such as gall bladder surgery or kidney stone removal. In 1990, lithotripsy or "stone busting" was introduced as a new outpatient procedure at Sampson Memorial, and soon to follow were one-stitch cataract surgery and outpatient removal of the gall bladder, known medically as laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Laser surgery made its debut at Sampson Memorial the same year, and in 1991 the hospital opened an in-house clinic specifically for the evaluation and monitoring or pacemakers.
Diagnostic radiology services were signficantly expanded and upgraded in the early 90's. In 1990, new radiology equipment was installed in five examination rooms, and in 1991 the department acquired a new mammography unit and a SPECT camera for nuclear medicine studies. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, was introduced as a new diagnostic service in 1992.
To better serve the healthcare needs of Sampson County's rural residents, in the early 90's the hospital assumed management responsibility for the Newton Grove Medical Clinic and Four County Medical Clinic in Harrells, both of which are located approximately 30 miles from Clinton and border adjoining counties. In the summer of 1994, Sampson Memorial purchased the Roseboro Medical Clinic which is located about 15 miles from Clinton. In 2003, Dr. Agaptio Fajardo acquired the Roseboro Clinic although SRMC retained ownership of the property.
In July of 1994, Sampson Memorial also assumed ownership of a home health agency that was formerly a part fo the Sampson County Health Department. Once under the hospital's domain, the agency was renamed Sampson Home Health and headquartered in a renovated office facility close to the hospital on Beaman Street.
Sampson Regional is constantly upgrading and improving to provide the latest in modern facilities and technology. A major construction project completed in 1997 provided a spacious new maternity suite along with expanded ambulatory and emergency care facilities. A $2 million renovation project on third floor completed in 1999 provided us 55 spacious private rooms with private baths. In 2002, we opened a 15,000 square foot outpatient rehabilitation center at the corner of Beaman and Johnson Streets, and in January of 2004 opened a 42,000 square foot, state-of-the-art Center for Health and Wellness.
The hospital's cardiac program evolved in early 2005 to include a Cardiac Rehab program, a Heart Clinic and a Congestive Heart Failure program. Heart Clinic and the Heart Failure programs are located in the Woodside Building and are under the direction of Dr. William Newman of Wake Heart Associates. Both programs are provided in partnership with WakeMed.
Sampson Regional Cancer Center opened in the summer of 2006. The Center provides radiation therapy and is located adjacent to Southeastern Medical Oncology. With these two centers in our community, cancer patients are afforded the opportunity to receive both chemotherapy and radiation therapy at home rather than having to travel at least 45 miles for treatment as they have been forced to do in the past.
In 2007, the hospital opened a new Outpatient Diagnostics Center two blocks from the hospital on Beaman Street. This 11,000 square foot facility houses state-of-the-art imaging technology that includes MRI, CT, nuclear medicine, mammography, ultrasound, radiography, and bone density testing. The center features a women's center dedicated entirely to women's radiology services.
Priority Care-Clinton located at 522 Beaman Street directly across from the main hospital, opened in September 2009. Priority Care serves as an alternative for immediate urgent care and is open 365 days a year during the hours of 8AM-7PM with walk-ins welcome.
Also opening in 2009 was the medical practice of Dr. Tracie Bellanger. In a joint venture with Sampson Regional, Dr. Bellanger opened her internal medicine practice in the Vance Street building where she sees adult patients for primary care, wellness preventive care, and later life care.
Contact Us
Sampson Regional Medical Center wishes to encourage open communication regarding your hospital experience. If you have concerns, complaints or questions regarding safety or quality of care in a specific department, we encourage you to call the respective department director at 910/592-8511 or call the Director of Risk Management at 910/590-8718.
Should you have a concern that is unresolved, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has indicated that any concerns about safety or quality may be reported to them at One Renaissance Boulevard, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 6018, (800/994-6610 or complaint@jcaho.org).
|
|
 |
VIDEO TOUR
For more information please contact Sue Driver, Medical Staff Development Coordinator, (800) 682-1807 or (910) 596-4251. Videos are in Quicktime .mov
format and Windows .wmv.
Sampson Video (.wmv)
Sampson Video (.mov)
ASCOM WORLD-CLASS COMMUNICATIONS
Learn more about our cutting-edge wireless communications system that increases efficiency and helps to create a quieter healing environment.
www.ascomwireless.com
|
