Health Care

Doing it right for the right reasons.” That’s the way Steve Lawler, president of Pitt County Memorial Hospital, describes the new East Carolina Heart Institute, expected to open later in 2008. A partnership of the hospital and East Carolina University, the $210 million Heart Institute will combine world-class cardiovascular surgery and inpatient and outpatient care with university research, medical training and public education.

Pitt County Memorial Hospital is at the leading edge of weight-loss surgical procedures and care for the morbidly obese. And the hospital has been perched on that edge for 30 years.