Lenoir Memorial's
mission is to provide area residents with cost-effective healthcare services,
which results in excellent clinical outcomes, improved health status and outstanding
customer service. Lenoir Memorial, a 261-bed not for-for-profit hospital, offers
quality inpatient, outpatient and preventive healthcare services.
Lenoir County Health Department
201 N. McLewean St., Kinston, NC 28501, PH: 252.526.4200
Lenoir County Health Department and Lenoir County Department of Social Services
provide numerous programs from health related to training and temporary aid for
limited income families.
Kinston Community Health Center, Inc.
324 N. Queen St., Kinston, NC 28501, PH: 252.522.9800
KCHC, Inc. is a private, non-profit health center that provides health and dental
services for members of the community who are unable to afford or obtain health
care.
Physician's Prime Care Center, P.A.
2908 N. Heritage St., Kinston, NC 28501, PH: 252.523.3111
Physician's Prime Care provides service 7 days a week with no appointment necessary
Lenoir County Elder Care
Kinston / Lenoir County has a fine selection of local retirement, assisted living
and nursing home facilities. Please contact any of the caring folks below.
- Daybreak Adult Day Services PH: 252.527.6882
- Britthaven of Kinston PH: 252.523.0082
- Kinston Assisted Living PH: 252.522.5783
- Kinston Rehabilitation Center PH: 252.527.5146
- Providence Manor PH: 252.527.9131
- Spring Arbor PH: 252.523.3099
Regional Health Care
In addition to Lenoir Memorial Hospital there are five other hospital within 40 minutes of Kinston inculding Pitt County Memorial Hospital and the East Carolina School of Medicine located in Greenville.
The Brody School of Medicine is the Medical School at East Carolina University The Brody School of Medicine is ranked sixth in the nation in primary care, tied with Duke University, the University of Colorado at Denver and the University of Wisconsin. Brody is also the seventh in rural medicine. Lastly they are ninth in family medicine. All rankings came in the 2006 U.S. News and World Report medical school rankings.
In the early 1960's, a group of leaders from eastern North Carolina proposed that a medical school be established at what was then East Carolina College. They were concerned about the deficit of modern medical care available in the region, and about who would replace the generation of physicians then in practice. Over the next decade these and other men and women, undert the determined leadership of the late Dr. Leo W. Jenkins, chancellor of the college, made the case for their idea to anyone who would listen.
Future
Officials broke ground, on March 31, 2006 for the new $60 million cardiac research and treatment center at East Carolina University. The institute is designed to be a world-class cardiovascular center offering state-of-the-art medical technology, education and research. In addition to ECU's research and treatment facility that will be across from the Brody Outpatient Center, Pitt County Memorial Hospital is building a $150 million, 120-bed cardiovascular center on the east side of the hospital. The facilities should open in 2008.
