ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health
care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina
counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine
hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and
community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics
located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a
Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the
primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina
University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined
academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina
through patient care, education and research.
ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and
a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared
leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure
alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy. This innovative
structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute
to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and
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