Sponsor comments.

• Author: Chewning, Larry
• Position: SPONSORED SECTION

Health care is special--indispensable to the life and vitality of a community. Each community in North Carolina boasts its own unique blend of history, culture and identity. However, there are great similarities throughout our state in the need for continuity and stability of superior quality health care services.

For nearly 50 years, Nash Health Care Systems has partnered with area citizens and leaders to anticipate and capably serve the changing and growing health care interests of the citizens of our region. The economic growth of our region and Nash Health Care Systems is inseparably interwoven. Nash Health Care Systems' relationship with its community and regional partners provides a marriage of interests in which superior health care services, and the communities we serve, thrive.

Samuel Johnson, arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history, correctly observed that "the future is purchased by the present." The future of our region and its health care is shaped by our vigorous and unrelenting pursuit of excellence in the present.

Since our inception, Nash Health Care Systems has been in the business of shaping the future of health care. Everything we do is done with an eye to the future. Every decision we make is governed by our commitment to provide the highest quality care for our region for future generations.

We have built our reputation for innovation by anticipating changes taking place in the health care environment. We have actually shaped that future and made it a present reality. Building the first all-private room...