WakeMed Apex Healthplex Celebrates One-Year Anniversary, Adds New MRI Service
WakeMed Apex Healthplex Celebrates One-Year Anniversary, Adds New MRI Service
Apex, N.C. (February 4, 2009) – Since opening to the public on February 4, 2008, Apex Healthplex has been an outstanding addition to the Apex and Western Wake communities. Far above WakeMed’s original estimations, the facility has served the health care needs of more than 14,000 local residents.
Apex Healthplex offers a 24/7, full-service Emergency Department (ED) for adults and children, on-site lab services, and a variety of imaging services including CT scan, mammography, bone densitometry, radiography and ultrasound.
This past December, the facility also added a mobile, open-bore MRI machine that has proven to be a great success. Due to its size and scope, it is the only MRI in this area capable of serving overweight patients and claustrophobic patients without sedation. Offering body, musculoskeletal and neuro MRIs, the service is open from 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday (with hours extended to 8 pm on Wednesday), and actively services the facility’s ED. Because it does not use radiation, Apex Healthplex’s MRI presents a safer way to detect and diagnose certain diseases, tumors and spinal ailments.
Record Numbers at Apex Healthplex!
To date, the facility has…
-Performed 81,725 ED and outpatient lab tests.
-Served 801 walk-in outpatients.
-Performed 12,161 total Imaging studies
- 2,522 for outpatients
-9,638 ED patients.
About WakeMed Health & Hospitals
WakeMed Health & Hospitals, one of the first hospital systems in the country, is a private, not-for-profit health care organization based in Raleigh, N.C. The 870-bed system comprises a network of health care facilities throughout Wake and Johnston Counties, including: a Level I Trauma Center and tertiary referral hospital and rehabilitation hospital in Raleigh, a community hospital in Cary, comprehensive outpatient centers and freestanding emergency departments in North Raleigh and Apex, seven outpatient rehabilitation sites, two skilled-nursing and outpatient facilities, a 100+-physician multispecialty practice, and home health services. The system includes accredited Chest Pain Centers and Joint Commission-certified Stroke Center. Throughout the system, there are an additional 60 beds under construction and 41 newly approved by the state. WakeMed also provides management services for Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital in Dunn, NC. Centers of excellence include cardiac and vascular care, women’s and children’s services, physical rehab, emergency and trauma, orthopaedics, neurosciences, home care and numerous wellness and community outreach programs. WakeMed’s team of 7,000 nurses, technologists and medical support staff and more than 1,000 affiliated physicians serve the residents of North Carolina using the most advanced technologies and facilities to ensure the finest in health care.
