Medicine Service

Medicine Inpatient Management is the Management Department of all inpatient Medicine Units. Medicine Inpatient Management is a dynamic service line with specialties including Geriatrics, Pulmonary, Infectious Diseases, Nephrology, Gastroentrology, Family Medicine and General Medicine.  The service also includes the Critical Care areas of Medicine Intensive Care Unit as well as the Medicine Progressive Care Unit.  Inpatient Dialysis, IV Team, Critical Care Resource Team and the Clinical Decision Unit are also included in the Medicine service line.

The service has a total of 131 Observation, Acute Care beds and Licensed Critical Care beds. In addition, Inpatient Dialysis is a procedural unit with 10 treatment stations in the Unit. The IV Team is a team of specialists that place PICC lines and assist all inpatient Units with difficult access issues.  The Critical Care Resource Team falls under the management of the IV Team but primarily assists in all ICU and Intermediate Care Units throughout the Hospitals.
 

Respectfully,
 

Priscilla Merryman, RN, MSN, MBA, CNAA
Clinical Director, Medicine Service

Medicine Inpatient Management Leadership Team

Priscilla Merryman, RN, MSN, MBA, CNAA – Clinical Director
pmerryma@unch.unc.edu

Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Urology, Family Medicine (3 West)
Pam Ball, RN, BSN - Nurse Manager
pball@unch.unc.edu 

Admission and Discharge Unit
Kimberly Wood, RN, MSN - Interim Nurse Manager
kwood@unch.unc.edu

Dialysis
Wanda Bandy, RN, CNN - Nurse Manager
wbandy@unch.unc.edu

Pulmonary/Infectious Disease (6 Bed Tower)
Turkeisha Brown, RN, BSN - Nurse Manager
tsbrown2@unch.unc.edu

Geriatrics and General Medicine (8 Bed Tower)
Megan O'Connor, RN, BSN - Interim Nurse Manager
derickson@unch.unc.edu

Nathan Woody, BS
Administrative Officer, Medicine Inpatient Management
nwoody@unch.unc.edu

IV Team, Adult Specialty Care Team (ASCT)
Kathy King, RN, BSN - Nurse Manager
kking@unch.unc.ed

Beverly Wallace, BS
Administrative Coordinator, Dialysis
bwallace@unch.unc.edu

Medicine Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
Lewis McKenzie, RN, BSN, NE-BC - Nurse Manager
jmckenzi@unch.unc.edu

Medicine Progressive Care Unit (MPCU)
Megan O'Connor, RN, BSN - Nurse Manager
moconnor@unch.unc.edu

General Medicine, Extended Surgical Care (6 West)
Kimberly Wood, RN, MSN - Nurse Manager
kwood@unch.unc.edu

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