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Phone: 276-669-5179 Roy Andrews, D.O. is a board-certified family physician in practice at Twin City Medical Center in Bristol, Virginia. He works in association with Carol Wilson, a family nurse practitioner. Born October 3, 1964 in Providence, Rhode Island, Dr. Andrews grew up in Providence and married his wife Julie there in 1989. The couple has three children - Elizabeth (b. 1992), Heather (b. 1998), and Robert (b. 2000). Mrs. Andrews is a professional teacher, reading specialist, and stay-at-home mother. The family resides in Abingdon, Virginia. Dr. Andrews graduated from Rhode Island College in Providence with a major in Chemistry in May 1988. He graduated from the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kansas City, Missouri in May 1997. In 1998, he completed an Osteopathic Internship with an emphasis on Family Practice at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Warren, Ohio. Dr. Andrews enrolled in a Family Practice residency at Latrobe Area Hospital in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1998, but decided in 1999 to transfer to a Pediatric Residency at Tod Children’s Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. He left the Pediatric program in 2000 and moved to the Family Practice residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Horizon Campus, in Farrell, Pennsylvania, where he completed training in 2001. After graduating from residency training, Dr. Andrews started a new family practice, ProMedica Health System, in Defiance, Ohio. In 2003, he moved to Virginia and practiced family medicine at Clarksville Primary Care, a facility associated with the Community Memorial Healthcenter of South Hill, Virginia. With the closure of two local factories, the Clarksville practice shrank, and Dr. Andrews worked locum tenens for several months before moving to Bristol, Virginia in 2005. He has been with Twin City Medical Center since April 2005. Dr. Andrews is a Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians and a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is certified in Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and Pediatric Advanced Life Support. Dr. Andrews is skilled in the use of the Logician electronic medical records system and is particularly interested in pediatrics, preventive medicine, osteopathic manipulation, and office procedures.
Dr. Andrews loves working with children and includes lots of preventive medicine in his practice. He describes himself as a “straight shooter,” a “man of strong opinions” who sees his job as helping people to help themselves. He educates patients about disease processes and encourages everyone to get involved in their own health care. Dr. Andrews is very involved in the business part of medicine and he is ready to coach residents as they develop coding skills, making sure that medical chart entries justify the codes used to charge for services. He is also interested in teaching residents to manage the risks endemic in contemporary health care. After work, Dr. Andrews spends a lot of time with his children. He calls on us to remember that in the final analysis, medicine is a career path, not a way of life. For Dr. Andrews, “the family is the life”. He especially enjoys helping his children with their homework in Math and Science. The Twin City Medical Center is a federally qualified health center that belongs to a network called Southwest Virginia Community Health Systems, Inc. As a federally qualified health center, Twin County offers access to medical care for all comers – those with commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid along with people who have no insurance coverage. Twin City receives federal funds to create access for low-income patients through a sliding fee scale. Residents who train with Dr. Andrews will be able to see patients from both rural and urban areas and from all walks of life. Working at Twin City Medical Center can be a very gratifying experience. GMEC is usually able to secure furnished apartments or houses for residents on rotation in Bristol; however, we can offer no guarantees because short timer rentals are hard to find in rural areas. If no furnished house or apartment is available, we can house residents in local bed and breakfasts (3 in Bristol) or motels (22 in Bristol.) Bristol, Virginia is the smaller of two cities named Bristol on the Virginia/Tennessee border. The Virginia population of Bristol is 17,367 and the Tennessee population is 24,821 - a combined total of 42,188. Bristol is a Tennessee Valley town, graced with hills and hollows and watered by several small streams. U.S. Interstate 81 bisects the community from North to South. Major sectors of the local economy are manufacturing (23.8%), retail and wholesale trade (19.4%), and educational, health, and social services (17.6%). There is a large shopping mall in Bristol, Tennessee and both cities offer a full complement of department and discount stores, restaurants, groceries, cinema screens and specialty boutiques. Barter Theater – Virginia’s state theater – is in Abingdon, less than 20 minutes from Bristol. The Bristol Motor Speedway hosts important NASCAR races each season. There are many outdoor recreational areas near Bristol – Rocky Mount, Warrior’s Path, the Virginia Creeper Trail, Watauga Lake – with facilities for swimming, boating, sailing, water skiing, hiking, biking, camping, picnicking, horseback riding, fishing, and general frolicking. Gourmands should enjoy visits to area restaurants, including the Troutdale Dining Room, the Vinyard Restaurant, the Martha Washington Inn, The Peerless Steakhouse, and the Starving Artist Cafe. For more information about Bristol and the surrounding area, see our profiles for the City of Bristol and Washington County.
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Roy Andrews, D.O., FACOFP
Office hours at Twin City Medical Center are 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Dr. Andrews works 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. The facility was designed for expansion, with the potential for housing 12-14 exam rooms, a CLIA waived medical lab, a medicine storage room, central nursing station, provider offices, and reception and medical records area. LabCorp provides courier service and speedy lab results for clinic patients. Twin City participates in the Mount Rogers Medication Assistance Program, which secures prescription medicines from pharmaceutical manufacturers for patients with low incomes. Procedures done on the premises include joint injections, trigger point injections, skin biopsies, skin lesion repair, osteopathic manipulations, and toe-nail removal. Internet access is available on the premises.