Catawba Valley Medical Center (Across the street from Unifour Peds)
Catawba Valley Medical Center is one of the primary COMMUNITY hospitals for Unifour Pediatrics. Drs. Millsaps, Rheinbolt, Colosimo, and Elliott, and our CPNPs, as well as our pediatric hospitalists have full admitting privileges at CVMC, which is located right across the street from our office. Catawba has excellent emergency room services and procedural/surgical services. Advances imaging and laboratory/diagnostic services are readily available to our pediatric clinic located directly in front of the hospital. Catawba has an award-winning birthing center, full-term nursery, and level 2/3 nursery if needed, well- staffed with quality neonatologists and neonatal nurse practitioners. Pediatric hospitalists provide excellent community hospital care for those children who require hospitalization.
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Laboratory Facilities for Pediatrics:
We send many of the more advanced lab studies to Catawba to process. They have an excellent referral laboratory.

Imaging, Radiology/X-ray, MRI Scans, CT Scan Facilities:
We send most of our imaging studies to Catawba Hospital or to their out-patient imaging center on Tate Blvd. They have excellent facilities, staff, equipment, technical ability and radiology/imaging specialists.

Pediatric Emergency Room Care at CVMC:
The newly rebuilt emergency room is excellent in terms of equipment, facilities, staff and emergency room physicians. We feel very comfortable with the abilities of the emergency room staff, when they take care of our pediatric patients, and we work closely with them. Should the emergency room physician require additional pediatric consultation, we have contracted with the pediatric hospitalists (pediatricians who specialize in the care of hospitalized children and those in emergency rooms). Dr. David Berry, and associates, and others that cover the ER, do a superb job in this capacity, and will follow through should subsequent hospitalization be necessary.

Pediatric Hospital Care:
The pediatric ward of the hospital is located on the second floor behind the birthing center area. This is staffed by pediatric nurses who provide excellent community hospital care. Our two pediatric hospitalists,Dr. David Berry (Neonatology and Pediatric Acute Care Specialists, Inc) provide care for the hospitalized patients of Unifour Pediatrics, and Dr. Millsaps and Dr. Spees have been pleased with the excellent care they have provided. Should additions subspecialty care be needed, they will, as needed, bring them into the diagnostic and treatment team. This may include allergy/asthma specialist, surgeons, urologists, infectious disease experts and others. In very selected cases, tertiary care of consultation may be needed at Baptist, Carolinas Medical Center, Duke or Chapel Hill, and Dr. Berry and associates will also coordinate the transfer as needed.

Full-term Nursery Care:
Dr. Millsaps, Rheinbolt, Colosimo, and Elliott see all newborns on morning rounds, review their charts, examine them closely, and direct their care through the hospitalization. Circumcisions are performed if they are requested. They visits new mothers and their families and answer questions. Dr. Berry and associates provide provide backup coverage here and consultation services for sicker patients.

Level 2 and 3 Nursery Care (Intensive Care Nursery):
Our pediatric hospitalists (and board-certified neonatologists), Dr. David Berry (Neonatology and Pediatric Acute Care Specialists, Inc., and others that cover) provide care for premature (or sick) newborn patients of Unifour Pediatrics. Drs. Millsaps, Rheinbolt, Colosimo, and Elliott, and our CPNPs, have been most pleased with the excellent care they have provided. These are sometimes transferred back to level 1 (full-term nursery) where Unifour Pediatrics then redirects care, back on our service.

Dr. David Berry, MD FAAP ... hospitalist/neonatologist:
Prior to coming to the Hickory/Conover area, Dr. Berry spent many years as a well-respected Assistant Professor of of pediatrics at Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. He also is a board-certified neonatologist, and also very skilled as a hospital-based pediatrician. He has also continued his interest in the hospitalized older pediatric patient, and our patients continue to benefit from his wealth of knowledge and experience with pediatric patients in the emergency room and hospital setting. David's kindness, knowledge, technical abilities, and excellence, have one him special awards from the pediatric nursing staff.

Further Back-up Pediatric Coverage:
To provide further redundancy of backup coverage (in case lots of problems develop at hospitals and offices at the same time), and especially when problems occur of holidays or weekends, etc., we have arranged for others to provide additional backup coverage.