Patient Based Visit - Westfield Medical Center

Westfield, NC

I have gone to Westfield Medical Center for as long as I can remember. So when this project came up it was one of the first places I knew I wanted to visit. Westfield is a very rural community. The closest city of any size is Mount Airy, NC and that is not saying much. The closest big city in relation to Westfield is Winston-Salem. Westfield is about a forty-minute drive to Winston-Salem and to all of the doctors and facilities that Winston-Salem has to offer. Westfield Medical Center serves the Westfield community and fills the need for local medical care. The Westfield Medical Center has three employees. Dean is the physician assistant. Wanda is the nurse and Kay answers the phones, schedules and checks patients in and out. This is, of course, a very abbreviated description of what these very competent employees do there. Dean has an attending physician that he reports to and that physician is “my doctor”. I have never met my doctor and quite frankly I would not know him if he walked right up to me. I would actually be very upset if I ever had to see my doctor versus seeing Dean. The services that are offered at The Westfield Medical Center are numerous, too numerous to list them all. Patients being seen at The Westfield Medical Center can be seen for a variety of reasons. As a patient of Westfield Medical Center, one can expect diagnosis and treatment for an array of illnesses or conditions. They also perform blood work and take cultures, perform yearly and sports physicals. At Westfield Medical center they diagnose and treat patients. The Physician Assistant, Dean will also prescribe medications and order the appropriate tests from outside facilities when medically necessary. Dean can also refer patients to the larger specialized facilities when this is a necessity. Westfield Medical Center serves as the local medical facility for people who do not choose to drive into the city to be seen. Or for those people, like myself, who really like the personalized care and treatment that you receive when going to a small medical office in a rural community.