Your body will go through many changes during pregnancy.
It’s important to start prenatal care early – ideally before you even get pregnant – because your health directly affects the health of your baby. This designation underscores our dedication to caring for people suffering from stroke and supporting their care needs before, during and after a stroke may occur.
It is the only hospital in our service area providing 24/7 endovascular care. The hospital-which earned Comprehensive Stroke Center designation from The Joint Commission in July 2018-is home to the region’s only Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit, with 24 beds dedicated to neurosurgical and neuromedicine patients. Vidant Medical Center serves as the regional leader for a stroke system of care, partnering with regional hospitals within the Vidant Health system to optimize care. Vidant Medical Center's neurological surgery department exceeds the national benchmark for the American Heart Association's stroke quality measures. That’s why we continue to be recognized nationally for our patient- and family-centered approach to care, and why we’re the ultimate regional resource for comprehensive health services and clinical expertise. Putting patients first is more than a goal here - it’s a way of life. We’re equally proud of the thousands of dedicated health care professionals who are part of the Vidant team and include specialists from all over the country and around the world.Įvery day, we work to improve patient outcomes through groundbreaking research, innovative technologies and award-winning programs and services at our state-of-the-art facilities. We are proud of the dedicated nurses who care for eastern North Carolina and the patients and families we serve. Learn more about our Magnet® recognition here. We are a tertiary care referral center and in 2018, achieved Magnet® recognition for the second time, designated by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Vidant Medical Center serves as the flagship teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. We have 974 licensed beds and are proud to offer extensive inpatient and outpatient services to more than 1.4 million people across 29 counties. We use a multi-disciplinary approach that combines gene-deficient models, biochemistry and contemporary molecular techniques to develop a fundamental understanding of the chromatin architecture and epigenetic networks that control important steps of immune cell differentiation during development, allergy and infection.Located in Greenville, the fast-growing cultural hub of eastern North Carolina, Vidant Medical Center is the heart of the Vidant Health system.
However, we are only at the tip of the iceberg in our understanding of how these processes affect lymphocyte fate. Our research aims to understand the complex epigenetic circuitry that underlies immune cell function, which should lead to therapies designed to rewire lymphocytes, as new treatments for infection or allergy.Įpigenetic modifications to chromatin may promote immune cell phenotypic stability by influencing the ability of transcription factors to bind to DNA and affecting whether and to what level specific genes are expressed in a cell. In the long term we plan to use this knowledge to develop new treatments that ‘rewire’ white blood cells to prevent allergy and infection. We are particularly interested in how changes to DNA, called epigenetic changes, switch white blood cells from protecting against infection to causing these diseases. Our laboratory is focused on understanding what goes wrong in white blood cells to cause allergic diseases such as asthma and food allergy, and autoimmune conditions such as lupus.