The Fayetteville NC VA Coastal Health Care System and Womack Army Medical Center celebrates new Joint Acute Inpatient Dialysis Center
The Fayetteville NC VA Coastal Health Care System and Womack Army Medical Center formally celebrated the new Joint Acute Inpatient Dialysis with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, December 1, on Fort Liberty.
The project, five years in the making, was born out of two requirements: the need to expand trauma and graduate medical education services at Womack and increased inpatient dialysis capacity for the area’s Veterans.
Brigadier General Lance Raney, Director, Defense Health Network East, called the new clinic an example of how collaboration between the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs an example of how leveraging resources beyond what you have helps to create what is needed. “It’s about people committed to doing what is right for our service members, Veterans and community,” Raney added.
In her remarks, Marri Fryar, the health system executive director, shared that health care collaborative efforts such as the joint dialysis center provide a structure to exchange clinical and non-clinical resources between VA and DoD medical facilities and are established to support increased patient access to medical services, promote improved efficiency by reducing duplication of services, and encourage the sharing of medical facility space. “Joint ventures such as this are not new to Womack and the Fayetteville VA,” Fryar added. “The jointly-funded rehabilitation center in Fayetteville has been a success for both organizations and the expectation is that the new acute inpatient dialysis center will demonstrate the same.”
After the formal ceremony, senior leaders from both organizations joined staff for a tour of the facility.