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Phone: (276) 228-0200 (0258) As Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Wythe County Community Hospital, Fredrick Moses is board-certified in both Emergency Medicine and Family Practice (lapsed.) Born January 15, 1948 in Balapur, India, Dr. Moses is a citizen of the United States. He is married to Leela Moses and they have two children Melissa and Fredrick, Jr. Dr. Moses holds a BS degree in Biology, awarded in 1968 by Spicer College of Pune, India. He taught Biology at the secondary level in India for three years before moving to the United States in 1971. In 1973, he earned an AS degree in Medical Technology from Montgomery College in Tacoma Park, Maryland. Moses worked as a medical technologist for the next five years. In 1977, he completed a physicians' assistant training program at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He worked as a physicians' assistant in Ohio until 1979, when he enrolled in medical school. Dr. Moses earned an MD degree in 1982 from the University of CETEC, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In 1984, he completed a Family Practice internship at New England Memorial Hospital, a Boston University affiliate in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Moses completed his Family Practice residency training in 1986 at Mountainside Hospital in New Jersey, an affiliate of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. In 1986, Dr. Moses moved to Wytheville, Virginia and practiced privately as a family physician for two years. Since 1988, he has worked in the emergency department at Wythe County Community Hospital.
The emergency department at Wythe County Community generates about 14,500 patient visits per year. ER physicians see an average of 25-30 patients during each 12-hour shift. Dr. Moses estimates that 15% of his patients are children, 10% are adolescents, and 75% are adults. The ER department treats many geriatric patients since there are several nursing homes in Wytheville. About 17% of Dr. Moses' patients are covered by Medicaid, 27% are enrolled in Medicare, 35% have commercial coverage, and 21% are uninsured. Although Dr. Moses does not admit patients to the hospital, the ER physicians staff all codes in the hospital until the arrival of the patients' attending physicians. Dr. Moses has a significant interest in the treatment of patients with mental illnesses and he served for ten years as a consulting physician for the local mental health services board. He enjoys working in emergency and outpatient settings more than admitting and caring for patients in the hospital. In association with other local physicians and a nurse practitioner, Dr. Moses established the Wythe-Bland Free Clinic in Wytheville and he sees patients there on a regular basis. Should residents tire of emergency room work while training with Dr. Moses, they can see patients in the local free clinic. Residents who rotate with Dr. Moses may choose to stay in a number of area hotels: Holiday Inn, Quality Inn, Hampton Inn, Ramada Inn, Comfort Inn, Red Carpet Inn, Days Inn, Roadway Inn, Super 8, Sleep Inn, etc. The town is blessed with motels, some of which offer efficiency suites. Wytheville also boasts several bed and breakfast inns. GMEC can try to locate furnished apartments or houses for residents, but we cannot guarantee results because short-term rentals are extremely difficult to secure in rural areas. Wythe County Community Hospital is a 106 bed acute care facility in Wytheville, Virginia with a standard range of services: emergency, inpatient and outpatient care, intensive care, surgery and anesthesia, obstetrics, radiology, imaging, cardiopulmonary, laboratory, nutrition, physical therapy, pharmacy, and home health. Specialties represented on the hospital staff include family practice, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, general surgery, radiology, anesthesiology, otolaryngology, pathology, orthopedic surgery, ophthalmology, cardiology, gastroenterology, pediatrics, urology, and plastic and reconstructive surgery. Wytheville is a town of about 8,200 in the middle of Wythe County (pop. 25,471). The broad and beautiful Tennessee Valley extends through the county and lends the landscape a distinctly pastoral appearance. Big Walker Mountain forms the northern border of Wythe County and the remnants of the Iron Mountain range run along the southern border. Lick Mountain pushes through the central valley floor and the New River meanders through the county to the southeast. The landscape is lovely in its variety. Major elements of the economy are manufacturing, transfer payments (retirement pensions, disability income, and welfare benefits), agriculture, retail trade, and personal services. In 1995, the largest employers were Wythe County Community Hospital, Textron (bolts, nuts, rivets, washers), Emerson Electric (process control instruments), the school board, and Kingston Warren (mechanical rubber goods.) US Interstate 81 intersects with US Interstate 77 in Wytheville and travelers have sparked a booming motel and restaurant trade. The town offers several shopping centers, cinema screens, groceries, discount stores, antique stores, and specialty boutiques. Within a 30 mile radius of Wytheville are several outdoor recreation centers Claytor Lake State Park, New River Trail State Park, Hungry Mother State Park, Mount Rogers National Recreation Area, and Jefferson National Forest. These centers have facilities for camping, picnicking, hiking, biking, swimming, boating, fishing, hunting, and horseback riding.
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Fredrick M. Moses, M.D.
Although his schedule varies,
Dr. Moses works mostly 12-hour day shifts in the hospital emergency
room. The emergency service includes seven exam rooms. ER physicians
utilize laboratory, x-ray, pharmacy and other services in the
hospital. Residents who work with Dr. Moses can expect to perform
a wide range of procedures intubation, laceration repair,
thoracentesis (chest tubes and needle), Foley catheterization,
nasal packing, removal of foreign bodies, treatment of sprains
and broken bones, etc. The emergency room has a management information
system that can track the number and diagnoses of patients seen
by residents and there are several computers with Internet links
in the hospital, including one on Dr. Moses' desk.