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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EWCH Announces New Patient and Visitor Entrance Process

Beginning Monday, October 12, Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital will implement a new patient and visitor entrance process. All patients, including emergency patients, and visitors must drive to the main entrance canopy of the hospital where they will be screened in their vehicles. After being approved to enter, they will receive an armband and be directed to their destination. This location will operate 5:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Patients and visitors who seek access to the hospital outside of these days and times must use the emergency room entrance

Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital


Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital provides world-class, patient-centered care for a seven-county region in Western North Carolina, North Georgia and East Tennessee. The 25-bed critical access facility is the region’s only hospital anchored by a leading academic medical center. Services include a wide spectrum of specialties, from orthopedics & sports medicine to urology, and general surgery. The cardiac rehab program is the only accredited program in the region; other rehab services offered deliver pulmonary, speech, occupational, and physical therapies. Life Force Air Medical also has local bases in Andrews, NC, and Blue Ridge, GA, for those patients needing advanced critical care.

 

 

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