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This is a list of hospitals in North Carolina.Five hospitals serve as university-affiliated academic medical centers: Duke University Hospital (Duke University), ECU Health (ECU), UNC Health (UNC), and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and Atrium Health's Carolinas Medical Center (Wake Forest University), while WakeMed is an unaffiliated Level I trauma center.
The Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of four counties, Catawba, Burke, Caldwell, Alexander. It is located in the Catawba Valley region of western North Carolina.
Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC) is a public community college in Hickory, North Carolina. The college, established April 3, 1958, is part of the North Carolina Community College System. The main campus covers 162 acres (0.66 km 2) and includes 16 buildings. The college also operates a Cosmetology Center in downtown Newton, the CVCC ...
Newton, Hickory, Long View, Conover, Claremont, Catawba, Brookford and Maiden have municipal police departments. The North Carolina Bureau of Investigation, the SBI, provides investigative assistance to local law enforcement agencies when requested by the sheriff, local police departments, the district attorney, or judges.
Hickory was known in the years after World War II for the "Miracle of Hickory". In 1944 the area around Hickory (the Catawba Valley) became the center of one of the worst outbreaks of polio ever recorded. Residents who were then children recall summers of not being allowed to play outside or visit friends for fear of contracting the infectious ...
Health. Home & Garden. Lighter Side ... four assists and four steals to lead Newton Conover to a 58-45 win over East Burke in the Catawba Valley ... had eight assists and two steals in a 75-67 win ...
Carolinas College of Health Sciences: Charlotte: Public Special-focus institution: 409 1990 Catawba College: Salisbury: Private (United Church of Christ) Baccalaureate college: 1,172 1851 Charlotte Christian College and Theological Seminary: Charlotte: Private (Nondenominational) Special-focus institution: 136 1996 Chowan University ...
He was also the founder and former chairman of the board of Plastic Packaging, Inc., a manufacturing company with plants in Hickory and Forest City. He also served in the North Carolina Senate (1977–1986), the North Carolina House of Representatives (1975–1977) and on the Catawba County Board of Commissioners (1966–1974).