Pardee is proud to announce Lachlan D. Noyes, M.D., has recently joined its medical staff as a general surgeon with Western North Carolina Surgical Associates, located at 840 Fleming Street, Suite 1, in Hendersonville.

Noyes received his medical degree from Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, La., and completed residencies at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, Calif., and Tulane University Affiliated Hospitals in New Orleans, La.

Noyes served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve as well as the United States Navy for over 20 years. Noyes is a Certified Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and certified by the American Board of Surgery. He is also board-certified in Advanced Trauma Life Support, Advance Cardiac Life Support, and Basic Life Support. Noyes joins Pardee from the Naval Hospital in Pensacola, Fla., where he served as Chief of Surgery and a staff general surgeon.

Noyes is now accepting referrals for general surgery. Please call Western North Carolina Surgical Associates at 698-0581 for more information.

Tricia Mills, BSN, RN-BC, recently received national medical/surgical certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Mills has been employed with Pardee for seven years and is the nursing director of the telemetry/step down unit.  She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Phoenix and is currently pursuing her Master of Science in Nursing from East Carolina University.

The American Nurses Credentialing Center is a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association and provides resources to nursing individuals and organizations to achieve excellence in their specialty nursing practices.

Erica Hathcock, RN, SANE, received certification as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) through Mission Hospital’s Forensic Nurse Examiner Program, which is approved through the North Carolina Board of Nursing.

Hathcock has been employed with Pardee for two years and serves in the Psychiatric and Addictions Therapeutic Healing Services (PATHS) unit as well as on-call for the emergency room to perform sexual assault exams.   Hathcock received her nursing degree from Greenville Technical College in Greenville, S.C. and is also certified in Chemotherapy.

The North Carolina Board of Nursing’s mission is to protect the public by regulating the practice of nursing. The North Carolina Board of Nursing oversees the training for the SANE certification.