Surgery Service

Welcome to the University of North Carolina Hospital’s Surgery Service home page!  We are the largest service consisting of nine unique and dynamic units.  Our team is committed to obtaining the highest level of quality patient care, nursing excellence, customer service and teamwork.  Our units will offer you a wide range of opportunities that are exciting and challenging regardless of what career stage you are in.

Our service bridges the continuum of care between intensive, intermediate and acute levels of care.  The inpatient acute-care areas include: 4 Anderson North (gastrointestinal surgeries and surgical oncology), 5 East (abdominal organ transplant, oral-maxillofacial and high risk plastic surgeries), 5 West (vascular and urology), 5 Bedtower (orthopedics and trauma) and 6 Neurosciences (neurologic, neurosurgical, and ENT).  Our inpatient critical-care areas include: the Intermediate Surgical Care Unit (abdominal organ transplants, trauma, orthopedics, plastics, vascular, neurosurgery, urology and gastrointestinal), the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit (neurological injuries requiring surgery) and the Surgical Intensive Care Units (a wide variety of surgical procedures, trauma and abdominal transplantation).  The N.C. Jaycee Burn Center provides care to burn victims of every age from pediatric to geriatric with acuities ranging from critically-ill to rehabilitative.     

Take a look at the exciting lives of our nurses!  Click on the links below to learn more about our team.

Sincerely,
 

Joel Ray, RN, MSN, NE-BC

 Surgery Service Leadership Team

• 4 Anderson North
  Angela Overman, RN
  Nurse Manager
  AOverman@unch.unc.edu

• 5 East

• 5 Bed Tower

• 6 Neuroscience
  Melissa Walter, RN, BSN 

• Intermediate Surgical Care Unit 
  Shelley Dillon, RN

• Neurosurgery ICU
  
  Jamila Ezell, RN, BSN 

• Surgical ICU
  Christa Williams, RN, BSN

• N.C. Jaycee Burn Center
  Grace Schmits, RN, BSN

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