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idant Medical Center acts as a primary teaching hospital for East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine. It is one of six level 1 trauma centers in North Carolina, but the only one of east of Raleigh, making the center a medical hub for eastern North Carolina. It is formerly known as the Pitt Community Hospital, a vision of Greenville physician Dr. Charles Laughinghouse. In 2012, the era of Vidant Health began as it became Vidant Health Center.
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1923 Pitt Community Hospital, the first ever hospital in Pitt County, opens in downtown Greenville.
1934 Hospital was renamed Pitt General Hospital.
Greenville: Life In The East
Summer 2018
