Hickory, NC - Every day, EMS professionals and volunteers risk their lives to save ours.  Frye Regional Medical Center recognizes the courage, competence and compassionate commitment of these individuals.

May 14 through 20 is National EMS Week.  To celebrate the occasion, Frye Regional Medical Center will honor our local EMS heroes – emergency physicians, emergency nurses, paramedics, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, educators and administrators, police and first responders – with a week long salute.

Commemorative print ads will run throughout the week in local newspapers.  Frye will visit the Hickory Police and Fire Departments and will invite EMS workers to a lunch at FRMC – Emergency Department.  Alexander County EMS, Fire Fighters, and Police will be invited to a lunch in their honor at Frye’s Alexander Campus Hospital.

“We are proud to honor and support our local EMS professionals,” says Mike Payne, R.N., administrative director of emergency services at Frye.  “We admire their dedication to this community.”

Frye Regional Medical Center, part of Tenet North Carolina, is a 355-bed acute care facility located at 420 North Center Street in Hickory, NC.  The hospital has been serving the medical and health care needs of Catawba County since 1911.  The hospital’s main campus includes a comprehensive heart center and cardiac rehab, orthopedics, bariatric surgery, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, pediatrics, center for neurosciences, cancer center and women’s pavilion.  Frye has several extended campuses to serve families throughout the area including: Wellness and Education Center which houses the Center For Diabetes Self-Management Care, perinatal education and community wellness classes; South Campus for psychiatric services; Viewmont and Tate Surgery Centers; Vein and Wound Center/Infusion Care; Pain Center; Piedmont Therapy, offering sports and industrial rehabilitation; an urgent care facility; FryeCare, an outpatient diagnostic facility; Alexander Campus, which provides 24 hour emergency care along with diagnostic and laboratory services and infusion care; plus HealthPoint, which provides extensive industrial services and programs to employers.

Frye Regional Medical Center is accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency.  To learn more about the hospital, visit www.fryemedctr.com
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