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Healthcare

Keeping Burke Healthy

B urke County’s healthcare system is thriving. Nearly 120 primary care physicians,
physician specialists, and extenders in
Notably, UNC Health Blue Ridge is
expanding its Morganton and Valdese
with other physicians on the medical
hospital campuses to incorporate state-of-the-art the Blue Ridge Medical Group combine
technologies for emergency and intensive care and staff to serve patients in the region.
cancer treatment (see page 24). UNC Health Blue Ridge provides
graduate medical education programs
UNC Health Blue Ridge is a not-for-profit for medical school graduates and
community healthcare system, providing advanced students in allopathic and osteopathic medicine.
healthcare and wellness services from more than
40 locations across a three-county region of western UNC Health Blue Ridge is affiliated with UNC Health Visit unchealthblueridge.org or the
North Carolina. The system includes one hospital System, a not-for-profit integrated healthcare system Chamber’s Member Directory for names
with two locations and a continuing care owned by the state of North Carolina and based in and addresses of medical facilities
retirement community. Chapel Hill. and providers.

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