CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
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Left | It’s just one of the many services SR-AHEC provides: physicals for new Cumberland County teachers. Dr. Heather Brown talks to teacher Jennifer Muench. leave, they leave as full-fledged doctors ready to practice family medicine on their own. But the hope is they’ll stay. That’s the mission of Southern Regional AHEC. SR-AHEC exists solely to fill health care needs of our community. That’s the simplest way to explain a place that is a teaching center and thriving family practice that logs more than 25,000 appointments every year. But even if you never step foot inside the brick building across from Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, you’ve most likely been touched by it nonetheless, if you’ve filled a prescription, had an X-ray at the dentist, paid a visit to your family doctor or sent a child to a Cumberland County school. In any given year, SR-AHEC: • Offers free physicals to more than 100 new Cumberland County teachers • Provides medical care to dozens of children at the county’s juvenile detention center • Reaches out to hundreds of high school students interested in health care careers • Leads countless continuing education classes for pharmacists, nurses, dental hygienists and mental health counselors • Answers more than 4,000 questions in its medical library • Houses students from across the country, even the world • Provides student health services at Fayetteville State University And it isn’t just folks in Fayetteville who are helped. SR-AHEC serves Bladen, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Robeson, Sampson and Scotland counties. When students arrive here, they are sent to clinics, hospitals and doctor’s offices across the Cape Fear region. SR-AHEC even finds them a place to sleep. The center owns or rents houses in Aberdeen, Clinton, Fayetteville, Laurinburg and Lumberton. These are short-timers, CityViewNC.com | 53 SR-AHEC exists solely to fill health care needs of our community. That’s the simplest way to explain a place that is a teaching center and thriving family practice that logs more than 25,000 appointments every year.