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Bickley Craven, M.D. Phone: (276) 475-5116 Bickley Craven is a board-certified family physician who serves as Medical Director for Stone Mountain Health Services and practices part-time at the Holston Family Health Center (HFHC), a rural facility located in Damascus, Virginia. Stone Mountain Health Services is a network of community health centers, facilities which receive federal funds to create access for low-income patients through a sliding scale of service charges. Dr. Craven practices in association with another board-certified family physician, Paul Derden, M.D. and a family nurse practitioner, Ms. Bridgette Smith. Despite being born in Roswell, New Mexico on September 10, 1955, Dr. Craven is not an alien; she is a citizen of the United States. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, awarded Dr. Craven
a BS degree in Engineering Science in 1978. She earned an MD
degree from the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences
in Memphis, Tennessee in 1982. In 1985, Dr. Craven completed
a three-year training program at Mountain Area Health Education
Center (MAHEC) Family Practice Residency in Asheville, North
Carolina. MAHEC is affiliated with the University Dr. Craven engaged in the full spectrum of Family Practice, including obstetrics, as a private physician in rural Lee County, Virginia from 1985 to 1990. In 1990 she joined the faculty of East Tennessee State University's Kingsport Family Practice Residency Program in Kingsport, Tennessee. From 1992 to 1996, she was the Associate Director of the Kingsport residency program. She has been Medical Director of Stone Mountain Health Services since leaving ETSU in 1996. Also since 1996, Dr. Craven has held an appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at East Tennessee State University. Dr. Craven's clinical office hours are usually 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday. The Holston Family Health Center is being expanded to include eight medical exam rooms and a dental suite. The project's expected to be completed in winter 2006. Services on the premises include a basic medical lab, simple x-rays, emergency care, pharmaceuticals for indigent patients, behavioral health counseling, psychiatric services, and minor surgical procedures (laceration repair, lesion removal, cryo-therapy, and endometrial biopsy.) Holston Family Health Center has a computerized information system that can track the number and diagnoses of patients seen by residents. There are computer links to the Internet on the premises. Dr. Craven sees about 20 patients a day in the office. She estimates that 10% of her patients are children or adolescents, 50% are adults and 40% are adults over the age of 65. About 35% of her patients are covered by Medicaid or Medicare, 25% have commercial insurance coverage, and 40% are uninsured. Dr. Craven has consulting privileges at Wellmont Holston Valley Hospital in Kingsport, Tennessee. She does not routinely admit or see patients in a hospital setting. She visits patients in their homes as dictated by need. The clinic offers sports physicals to local students and evaluates and treats injuries when athletes present for care. Dr. Craven is interested in all aspects of family medicine, with some concentration in women's health. She welcomes administrative medicine as a special burden. Her personal interests include traveling, pleasure biking, and women's basketball, especially at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Craven is an experienced preceptor, having taught in community
or university settings since 1985. Residents who train at HFHC can rotate with two family physicians and learn from an experienced nurse practitioner. As a community health
center, Holston Family Health Center has resources to make sure that
patients obtain the quality medical care they deserve, without regard
to financial status. Holston Family Health Center is located in the small community of Damascus in Washington County, Virginia. Damascus has a population of around 980. The town is 13 miles south of I-81 near Abingdon, Virginia (home of the Barter Theater and Martha Washington Inn). While Damascus was once a booming commercial timber producer, much of the timber was depleted by the late 1950s. The federal government bought up large tracts of land in the area to renew and preserve the woodlands. Today, the local economy is based on small business and eco-tourism. Damascus is known as the "friendliest town on the Appalachian Trail". Hiking, biking and camping in this area are the very best in the eastern United States. The Virginia Creep National Scenic Trail, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, the Iron Mountain Trail, the Daniel Boone Trail, and the Transcontinental Bicycle Trail all intersect in Damascus. Mount Rogers and Whitetop, two of the highest peaks in Virginia are located near Damascus. Mount Rogers National Recreation Area provides a variety of campgrounds. Local residents are served by a number of restaurants, groceries, banks, churches, discount and specialty stores. For fine dining, live theater, cinema, and serious shopping, most residents drive to historic Abingdon or Bristol Virginia (home of the Bristol Motor Speedway).
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North Carolina, Chapel Hill.