Facility profile

Frye Regional Medical Center

Hickory, NC

Level III NICU355 bedsMaternityCath lab

Clinical focus

Specialties staffed here

Cath Lab CT Tech ER Inpatient Rehab Labor and Delivery MRI Tech NICU Occupational Therapy Oncology Operating Room Physical Therapy Psych Radiology Respiratory Therapist Surgical Tech Telemetry Ultrasound Tech

Facility questions

Frye Regional organizes care around defined centers — the Frye Heart Center, Brain Center, Cancer Center, and Lung Center — plus general and vascular surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, and advanced orthopedics, so RNs work specialty-aligned units within a 355-bed community hospital.

Frye Regional's Women's Center includes a Level III NICU, giving labor-and-delivery, mother-baby, and neonatal RNs a defined obstetric and newborn track.

Frye Regional is the first Duke Health heart affiliate in western North Carolina, connecting its Frye Heart Center to Duke cardiac expertise — useful context for cardiac and telemetry nurses.

Beyond acute floors, Frye Regional runs a 32-bed emergency department, a 29-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit, and an 81-bed adult behavioral-health hospital at its South Campus, spanning emergency, rehab, and psychiatric nursing.

Frye Regional, part of Duke LifePoint Healthcare, does not publicly name its inpatient clinical EMR. Because LifePoint hospitals run varied platforms, confirm the specific charting system with the unit or agency before an assignment.