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Hospitalists are medical doctors who specialize in the care of patients who are in the hospital. They do not have offices outside the hospital. The other members of the Hospitalist Service program at Richmond Memorial are John E. Flannery, M.D. and Kelly E. King, M.D.
Dr. Aarons, who is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology, came to the RMH Hospitalist Service from Richmond Internal Medicine, which he joined in 2007. He received his premedical education from Princeton University in New Jersey and his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
He completed an internship and residency at Montefiore Hospital in Bronx, N.Y., and a residency in internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham. He later completed a nephrology fellowship at Emory University Hospitals in Atlanta.
“I am very pleased to continue my affiliation with FirstHealth of the Carolinas and with the physician, nursing and ancillary staffs of Richmond Memorial Hospital,” Dr. Aarons says. “This is a talented group of individuals devoted to the care of the citizens of Richmond County and the surrounding communities.”
Since they practice only in the hospital, the hospitalists at Richmond Memorial Hospital medically manage every aspect of a patient’s hospital stay. Because they are hospital-based, they are in a better position to respond to the immediate needs of the hospitalized patient.
In this respect, they differ from most primary care doctors who need to spend most of their time seeing patients in their offices, leaving them with a limited amount of time to care for patients in the hospital.
With hospitalists managing their care, RMH patients have the benefits of receiving high-quality care all day, every day; seeing a doctor as often as they need to; and having a doctor more readily available to speak with them or their family.
“Our hospitalists know every specialist and every diagnostic and treatment service in the hospital,” says Richmond Memorial President John Jackson. “They also know the nurses who help take care of our patients, because they work with them every day. All of this fosters communication and teamwork, which results in the best and most efficient care for our patients.”
Kimberley Lingler, M.D., joined Richmond Family Medicine a little less than a year ago.
Dr. Lingler and her husband, Justin Lingler, share a health care background. He is a medical technologist in the lab at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, but the two call Richmond County home.
The family association with medicine doesn’t end with Dr. Lingler’s husband, however. Her mother is a physician who practices emergency medicine in New Jersey. “My mother entered medical school when I was 6 years old,” Dr. Lingler says. “She was a podiatrist, but wanted to change to emergency medicine.”
Dr. Lingler herself received an undergraduate degree from LaSalle University in Philadelphia and then a Master’s of Biological Science from MCP Hahnemann University, Drexel University, also in Philadelphia.
She earned her medical degree from Philadelphia’s Temple University School of Medicine at the university’s Western Pennsylvania Hospital clinical campus, and then completed a family practice residency at the Washington Hospital in Washington, Pa.
She is board certified.
A member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Dr. Lingler says her interest in family medicine grew out of an interest in educating patients – not just children, not just adults or seniors, but all patients.
“I had considered many medical specialties, because I enjoy everything,” she says. “The beauty of family medicine is the variety that it provides. It allows me to care for the whole family – from babies to grandparents.”
Away from work, Dr. Lingler enjoys a variety of sports activities, camping, oil painting, boating, water skiing and sewing. During the 2007 and 2008 athletic season, she served as team physician for a varsity football team in Pennsylvania. She also spent three summers as an asthma camp physician for the American Respiratory Alliance’s Camp Huff ‘n’ Puff.
Kimberley Lingler, M.D., is now accepting patients at FirstHealth Family Care-Richmond Family Medicine, 921 Long Drive, Suite 101, Rockingham. To make an appointment, call 417-3850.
When Steven Alexander, M.D., was looking for a place to practice medicine, he looked toward North Carolina and the influence of family.
“My parents and sister live in Holly Springs,” he says. “That’s what brought me here. My parents were looking for a place to retire. They loved North Carolina, the climate and the people here, and decided to settle here.”
Born in New York, raised in New Jersey and educated in New York, India, Texas and Arkansas, Dr. Alexander followed his family’s example and also settled in North Carolina. In September, he joined the family medical practice at FirstHealth Family Care-Richmond Family Medicine, where he has been impressed by the area’s strong sense of community.
“You find a good community to be in and are happy where you are,” he says. “The people have been so friendly here.”
Dr. Alexander began his undergraduate career with a year of study at New York University before following the example of family friends and enrolling in medical school in India. After a required year of pre-medical study at the International Center for Health Sciences in Manipal, Karnataka, he entered India’s Kasturba Medical College at Manipal University.
While working toward his medical degree, he provided health care services in Manipal Hospital and affiliated hospitals, Rural Maternal and Child Welfare Homes and Peripheral Outreach Centers.
Upon returning to the United States, he entered the Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He also did an externship at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in El Dorado, Ark. He is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Medical Association and speaks Spanish. He and his wife met through family friends in India and have been married just over a year.
Dr. Alexander grew up around the medical field – his father is a radiologic technologist – and had been interested in becoming a doctor since childhood. “As I got older, I felt like that was my calling,” he says.
Encouraged by a neighbor who was a family physician, he developed an interest in family medicine while he was a student. “I came to understand how fulfilling the field was and how I could interact with patients of different ages and become part of their family,” he says. “It sounded along the lines of what I wanted to do.”
He now feels like he is achieving his professional goals at Richmond Family Medicine.
“It’s fulfilling when you see the entire family,” he says. “One day you see the mom and then another you see one of the kids or a grandparent. I’m seeing the whole spectrum.”
Steven Alexander, M.D., is now accepting patients at FirstHealth Family Care-Richmond Family Medicine. To make an appointment, call (910) 417-3850.
The latest addition to the new FirstHealth Richmond Medical Group – Women’s Center spent the fall of 2008 as a research assistant with the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
At the Bethesda, Md.-based NIH, Yolanda M. Newton, M.D., assisted with a study that investigated the behaviors of types I and II endometrial cancer by DNA sequence. She had previously worked with research projects while in medical school and as a medical resident.
Dr. Newton now sees patients at the FirstHealth Richmond Medical Group – Women’s Center, in partnership with Patricia L. Middleton, M.D., and Nasser A. Askary, M.D. She also delivers babies at FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital, which is a division of FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital.
“With the addition of Dr. Newton to our Women’s Center team, we offer the Richmond County community three highly trained specialists right here at home,” says Richmond Memorial Hospital President John Jackson. “Both Dr. Middleton and Dr. Askary are veteran physicians and are very familiar to our community. Dr. Newton, with her background in research, adds yet another level of experience to the Women’s Center practice.”
Dr. Newton received her B.S. degree from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro in 1998. As an undergraduate, she was selected for a Biomedical Sciences Program at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., and for a Science Enrichment Program and a Medical Education Development Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She earned her medical degree from the East Carolina University School of Medicine in Greenville in 2004 before completing a four-year residency in obstetrics and gynecology at St. Luke’s Hospital in Bethlehem, Pa.
She is a Junior Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Yolanda M. Newton, M.D., is now accepting patients at FirstHealth Richmond Medical Group – Women’s Center, 921 Long Drive, Suite 207, Rockingham. To make an appointment with her, call (910) 417-3477.
Richmond Memorial recently welcomed board certified physician Paul Singh, M.D., to the medical staff. Dr. Singh specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation, a pain management specialty that uses non-surgical approaches for pain relief.
Dr. Singh is trained in the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries and has further expertise in the use of X-ray guided, minimally invasive procedures.
A native of Chicago, he received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame, and attended medical school at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science in Chicago.
To learn more about FirstHealth of the Carolinas and Richmond Memorial Hospital, please visit www.firsthealth.org.
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