
Burke County’s Blue Ridge HealthCare, the county’s second largest employer, is committed to quality healthcare for area residents and visitors. A dramatic new $100 million expansion program at Grace and Valdese hospitals includes new outpatient centers, pediatric units, cancer center, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and CT systems. Beside these growing hospital facilities, Blue Ridge Healthcare provides long-term care facilities, a retirement center, and wellness programs. The combined hospitals have 62 family practitioners and 115 medical specialists on staff as well as a total of 376 beds.
Emergency Medical Service is available throughout the county around the clock. At any time of the day or night there are five ambulances ready for service as well as a sixth back-up vehicle.
Burke County boasts an extensive network of varied healthcare support systems, which offer the one-on-one care so important to all. There are a myriad of specialists in eye care, dental, medical and surgical fields; pharmaceutical, chiropractic, wellness and natural resources that offer an attainment of quality and excellence to rival that of major metropolitan cities.
You will find your needs met with excellent care, provided by skilled professionals who know how to treat you with concern, respect, and compassion.