General Practitioners

• Osteoporosis
• Warts
• Arthritis
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Medical Weight Loss
  Have no current signs of lung cancer such as unexplained cough or weight loss greater than 15 pounds in one year or coughing up blood
• Rheumatology
  The role of the rheumatologist is to diagnose, treat and medically manage patients with arthritis and other rheumatic diseases. These health problems affect the joints, muscles, bones and sometimes other internal organs (e.g., kidneys, lungs, blood vessels, brain). Because these diseases are often complex, they benefit from the care of an expert. Only rheumatologists are experts in this field of medicine. The rheumatologist interacts with the patient and family, gives health information and partners with other health care providers.
• Primary Care
  CCHC is a multi-specialty group practice with a strong base of primary care providers located in New Bern, NC. While the company was established in 1998, it traces its roots back to 1962. CCHC’s mission is to promote the health of our patients by providing high quality, compassionate, comprehensive, and personalized health care. CCHC’s vision is to consistently meet the changing health care needs and expectations of the patients we serve.
• Smoking Cessation
  If you smoke, you can cut your risk of dying from lung cancer by quitting. We advise all smokers to quit. CCHC has free smoking cessation classes that can help you quit. Please refer to our website www.cchchealthcare.com under the News and Events tab for further information on our smoking cessation classes.
• Sleep Disorders
• Family Practice
  Family medicine (FM), formerly family practice (FP), is a medical specialty devoted to comprehensive health care for people of all ages; the specialist is named a family physician, family doctor, or formerly family practitioner. Family medicine is a division of primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. It is based on knowledge of the patient in the context of the family and the community, emphasizing disease prevention and health promotion. According to the World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca), the aim of family medicine is to provide personal, comprehensive and continuing care for the individual in the context of the family and the community. The issues of values underlying this practice are usually known as primary care ethics.
• Emergency Care
  CCHC Urgent Care online check-in is available to all patients. CCHC does reserve capacity for its established patients. There may be days we reach maximum capacity and be unable to see any more patients. CCHC Urgent Care uses software to limit wait times and hold your place in line. This is not an appointment. An offered time slot is the expected time that you would be seen if you were to walk in.  Patients may also be seen out of order depending on the acuity of complaints.
• Diabetic Foot Care
• Pneumonia

Ophthalmologists

• Macular Degeneration
  Color Fundus Retinal Photography uses a camera to record color images of the retina, in order to document the presence of disorders and monitor their change over time. The retina is imaged to document conditions such as diabetic retinopathy, age related macular degeneration, macular edema and retinal detachment.

Gynecologists

• Obstetrics
  Internal Medicine incorporates an understanding of disease prevention, wellness, substance abuse, mental health, and effective treatment of common problems of the eyes, ears, skin, nervous system, and reproductive organs. An internal medicine physician’s primary responsibilities include health maintenance and disease screening, the diagnosis and care of acute and chronic medical conditions, management of patients with multiple, complex medical problems, and serving as consultants to other disciplines such as surgery, obstetrics, and family medicine. An internist’s work is characterized by extensive knowledge and skill in diagnosis and treatment.
• Pregnancy

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  Cardiology is a medical specialty and a branch of internal medicine concerned with disorders of the heart. It deals with the diagnosis and treatment of such conditions as congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, electrophysiology, heart failure and valvular heart disease. Subspecialties of the cardiology field include cardiac electrophysiology, echocardiography, interventional cardiology and nuclear cardiology.
• Gastroenterology
  Gastroenterology (MeSH heading) is a branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. In the United States, Gastroenterology is an Internal Medicine Subspecialty certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine (AOBIM).
• Endoscopy
  CCHC owns its own Accountable Care Organization (ACO)and has over 75% of its primary care patients in a total cost of care/accountable arrangement.  Additionally, the medical group owns and operates a state-of-the-art Imaging Center equipped with advanced diagnostic equipment such as MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Mammography, Bone Density and plain X-Ray, as well as an Urgent Care, Endoscopy Center, and Sleep Lab.
• Lung Cancer
  Lung cancer screening CTs use a very small dose of radiation. The dose is five times less than a standard CT. The effects of radiation from lung cancer screening is not known. The benefits are though to outweigh any consequences.

Neurologists

• Neurology
  Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. To be specific, neurology deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the central and peripheral nervous system; or, the equivalent meaning, the autonomic nervous systems and the somatic nervous systems, including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue, such as muscle.
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Epilepsy

Psychiatrists

• Mental Health
  Internal Medicine incorporates an understanding of disease prevention, wellness, substance abuse, mental health, and elective treatment of common problems of the eyes, ears, skin, nervous system, and reproductive organs. An internal medicine physician’s primary responsibilities include health maintenance and disease screening, the diagnosis and care of acute and chronic medical conditions, management of patients with multiple, complex medical problems, and serving as consultants to other disciplines such as surgery, obstetrics, and family medicine. An internist’s work is characterized by extensive knowledge and skill in diagnosis and treatment.

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care
• Endocrinology
  Endocrinology is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions called hormone, as well as the integration of developmental events proliferation, growth, and differentiation (including histogenesis and organogenesis), and also the psychological or behavioral activities of metabolism, growth and development, tissue function, sleep, digestion, respiration, excretion, mood, stress, lactation, movement, reproduction and sensory perception as caused by hormones. Significant diseases include: diabetes, thyroid disease, androgen excess.
• Thyroid
• Diabetic Retinopathy

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  Echocardiography: Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) is the most common type of echocardiography exam. It allows the doctors to view the heart from outside the chest without any discomfort to the patient. It does not require the patient to be sedated. This exam is performed by placing a microphone-shaped device called a transducer on the patient’s chest that sends ultrasound waves over the different areas of the heart, which are reflected back through the transducer and converted into images.
• MRI
  MRI – The most advanced MRI in the New Bern area is at CCHC Imaging Center. The Siemens MAGNETOM Espree is the first “Open Bore†Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanner and is truly a step ahead of the competition. It offers the unique combination of a spacious 70 cm bore and a short 125 cm magnet that allows nearly 60% of all scans to be performed with the patients head outside of the open bore. Even those patients who are claustrophobic or overweight will be more comfortable and relaxed because of the increased head and legroom allowed by Siemens’ new design. The magnet’s powerful 1.5 Tesla (or field strength) means significantly clearer and more precise images can be obtained with shorter exam times.
• Radiology
  When you receive services from an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center, certain providers there may be out-of-network. In these cases, the most those providers may bill you is your plan’s in-network cost-sharing amount. This applies to emergency medicine, anesthesia, pathology, radiology, laboratory, neonatology, assistant surgeon, hospitalist, or intensivist services. These providers cannot balance bill you and may not ask you to give up your protections.
• X-Rays
• Nuclear Medicine
  Nuclear Medicine is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear medicine scans are usually conducted by radiographers. Nuclear medicine, in a sense, is “radiology done inside out†or “endoradiology†because it records radiation emitting from within the body rather than radiation that is generated by external sources like x-rays. Nuclear medicine imaging, radiopharmaceuticals are taken internally, for example, intravenously or orally. Then, external detectors (gamma cameras) capture and form images from the radiation emitted by the radiopharmaceuticals.
• Mammography
  3D mammography improves breast cancer detection, especially in young women and women of any age with radiographically dense breast tissue. Dense breast tissue can obscure an underlying cancer, or conversely mimic a cancer when none exists. Approximately 15 to 20 percent of breast cancers cannot be detected using traditional 2D mammography.
• Computed Tomography
  Computed Tomography (CT): A CAT (computed axial tomography) scan or CT scan is a painless test that uses multiple images, taken from different angles, to create three-dimensional images of body structures. Increasingly, CT scans use digital x-rays to produce their images on a computer screen. The CT scanner rotates around the patient, who lays supine in the tube, and obtains images in 360 degrees.

Surgeons

• Wound Care
• Bunions
• Ingrown Toenails

Dermatologists

• Calluses

Physical Therapists

• Sports Medicine
• Back Pain
• Orthotics and Prosthetic Therapy

Podiatrists

• General Podiatry
  Podiatry involves the diagnosis and treatment of patients who have medical conditions affecting the feet or lower legs resulting from injuries as well as complications from ongoing health issues like diabetes. Treating injuries of the feet and lower legs can have a major impact on a patient’s mobility and independence. Click here for more information.
• Achilles Tendonitis
• Ankle Instability
• Ankle Sprain
• Bunions Problems
• Calluses
• Diabetic Foot Care
• Hammertoes
• Heel Spurs
• Ingrown Toenails
• Plantar Fasciitis