City: Charlotte, NC

Category: Health Care

Telephone: (704) 384-6500

Address: 1500 Matthews Township Parkway Matthews

Description: Presbyterian Hospital Matthews was designed to be both efficient and user-friendly for patients, their families, and visitors. Located in Matthews, this 102-bed hospital offers a full range of diagnostic and treatment services, including emergency, surgery (inpatient and outpatient), and maternity. All but the most specialized kinds of surgery are performed at Presbyterian Hospital Matthews.Features include large maternity rooms with Jacuzzi tubs, TVs, DVD players, refrigerators, and daybeds for dads to spend the night. All rooms in the hospital have similar features, including a daybed. With physician approval, even the critical care rooms encourage overnight visitors.The 24-hour emergency department has separate entrances for drive-in and ambulance patients. The hospital’s emergency department also houses a Chest Pain Center for early diagnosis and treatment of heart attack patients.Meals at the hospital are delivered to each patient at the time he or she specifies. The two inpatient wings each have a family medical resource center and a large family kitchen.The hospital, which is part of Presbyterian Healthcare, serves the Matthews–Mint Hill–Pineville and Ballantyne communities, as well as other areas of southern and eastern Mecklenburg and western Union Counties.