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Pack Family
Medicine to Hold Open House
Pack Family Medicine in
Elizabethtown will be celebrating their
Open House Thursday, July 29 from 5 pm to 8
pm. Everyone is
invited to visit their recently renovated
medical office located at
212 South Pine Street.
The new medical provider
will provide a BBQ dinner for the first
50 visitors, plus live music and an
opportunity to tour the new
office.
Karen Pack is the
medical provider. She has been
involved in providing medical care in the
area for the past 15 years with a short
break to South Carolina while her husband
was completing
his military career. Her husband
retired after 20 years in the US
Air Force. Upon retiring and moving
back to their home at Bay Tree
Lakes, he began the renovation for the
facility in Elizabethtown.
The Pack's reside at Bay Tree with their 2
children, Kaili (6) and Corey (4),
Pack began her Physician
Assistant career in Clarkton in the mid
90's after being awarded the National Health
Scholarship, a program developed for
healthcare providers offering to practice in
a federally designated healthcare shortage
area. She began working in a rural
health clinic as a mid-level provider under
the direction of a physician
located 10 miles from the clinic.
She actually began her
medical career at the tender age of 17, when
she enrolled in a program for radiology.
While working as a Nuclear Medicine
Technologist, she obtained her Bachelor's
Degree in Health Care Management. She
continued her education and in 1992 entered
graduate studies at Yale University Medical
School and completed the Physician Associate
Program in August 1994. After passing
the
National Commission of Certification of
Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
certifying exam with honors in Family
Practice and Surgery, she relocated to
Bladen County.
With the wealth of
knowledge acquired over 15 years in
diagnosing and
treating patients in the specialties of
Family Practice, Urgent Care and Emergency
medicine, and with her experience in health
care management,
she launched Pack Family Medicine.
She has surrounded
herself with a caring and supportive staff
and having
worked out the "kinks" of a new business, is
ready to begin serving the area, again.
Even while away for a
short time, she continued to own her Bladen
County
home with her long range plans of returning
and opening her own practice.
Her staff includes, in
addition to herself, Supervising Physician
Dr. Nina
Ward, Director of Emergency Services in
Beaufort, NC, who also works
as an emergency room physician at Bladen
County Hospital a few shifts
per month. Lisa Hall, RN, a resident
of White Lake is the practice Manager, Linda
Britt, patient coordinator, Katrina Stanley,
LPN, and Shelly
Ferguson, CNA1, providing nursing services.
The mission of the Pack
Family Medicine is to provide comprehensive,
convenient and personal medical services
that will exceed the expectations of our
patients as well as the community.
The new practice is
accepting new patients and encourages same
day
visits as walk-ins.
Office hours are 9-5
Monday through Thursday and from 9-1 on
Friday.
Pack is available at
other times by appointment, for instance,
have a medical problem but work 9-5?, she
will meet you earlier or after hours, by
appointment.
The Open House is a
great time to check-out all the services
and, see the new facility. If you are
among the first 50, enjoy BBQ and music.
Mark
Thursday, July 29 on your calendar for the
Open House at Pack Family
Medicine on South Pine Street, next door to
Thompson, Price, Scott,
Adams Accountants in Elizabethtown.
Open House hours are 5pm - 8pm.
Pack said, "we are
excited to be back in Bladen County,
practicing good
medicine in a personal way. I look
forward to caring for residents here and
look forward to meeting new faces at our
Open House."
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