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Please join us in congratulating Wendy Lafferty, MSN, RN, CPHQ, for attending the prestigious international credential, Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ).

Wendy Lafferty recently attempted and passed a fully accredited, international examination that assesses knowledge and understanding of the process to achieve regulatory compliance and accreditation/licensure, program development and management along a continuum of care, and quality improvement concepts as well as departmental management skills. The comprehensive CPHQ credential covers the field of quality, case/care/disease/utilization and risk management and emphasizes how all of these programs and

Dr. Hany Moustafa is the newest addition to the Centra Southside Community Hospital family. Dr. Moustafa, OB/Gyn, will join Dr. Jerry Lucas at the Southside Women’s Specialists, located on the Farmville CSCH campus. Dr. Hany Moustafa graduated from medical school at the Suez Canal University in Egypt. He also completed his Masters of Public Health in Egypt. He did his residency in Obstetrics/Gynecology there as well, and completed his clinical fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Dr. Moustafa then completed a research fellowship in

The Centra Southside Community Hospital Auxiliary recently donated hundreds of new stuffed animals to the Emergency Department, Pediatrics, and other departments that serve children. The huge, soft pile of kittens, bears, dogs, and other stuffed animals were donated in hopes of bringing comfort to Centra SCH's smallest patients. Pictured are Brandy Earhart, RN (Director, Med/Surg Nursing); Joan Long, (Auxiliary Gift Shop); Kathi Manis, RN (Director, ED Nursing); Mary Mason and Fay Booth (both, Auxiliary Gift Shop).

Dr. Bikram S. Bal is the newest addition to the Centra Southside Community Hospital family. Dr. Bal will open our new Centra Southside Center for Gastrointestinal & Liver Diseases office, located on the hospital campus.

Dr. Bikram S. Bal graduated from the Christian Medical College and Brown Memorial Hospital in India. He did his post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Yale School of Medicine. He completed his Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at Georgetown University, Washington Hospital Center. He also completed his Fellowship in Gastroenterology there as well.

Dr. Bal