Mount Airy, NC – [June 27, 2025] – Northern Regional Hospital recently wrapped up another successful year of Camp Med, a week-long summer program designed to introduce local high school students to careers in healthcare.
Thirty students representing 11 area high schools participated in hands-on learning experiences, hospital tours, and mentorship sessions with Northern Regional’s clinical and administrative staff. The students explored a wide range of medical skills and specialties, including intubation techniques, OB care, operating room procedures, and even cow heart and pig dissections. Each participant also earned their Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Northern Regional Hospital proudly recognizes the following Camp Med 2025 participants:
Chloe Brantley of Calvary Christian School.
Maddox Chamberlain, Lilliana Clodfelter, Ashlynn Comer, Addison Lawson, Itxel Leandro, Savanna Mathis, and Lauren McCreary of East Surry High School.
Andrew Molesa of Elkin High School.
Elizabeth Melton of Emmanuel Christian Academy.
Cristian Angulo-Sanchez of Forbush High School.
Ella Brintle, Kassady Dodson, Addison Hill, Kristen Jones, Madilyn Shough, and Jayden Wall of Mount Airy High School.
Sofia Mendez, Olivia Montgomery, Emma Norman, Guadalupe Salmeron Crisastomo, and Maggie Tate of North Surry High School.
Monserrat Ortiz-Garcia of Starmount High School.
Sierra Carpenter and Kaitlynn Kreger of Surry Central High School.
Eva Brown, Acacia Phillips, and Autumn Simmons of Surry Early College High School.
Andrew Evans and David Ritchey of Woodland Baptist Christian Academy.
For more information about Camp Med or future educational opportunities at Northern Regional Hospital, visit ChooseNorthern.org/careers.
About Northern Regional Hospital
Northern Regional Hospital (NRH) is a 133-bed hospital in Mount Airy, North Carolina, serving the northwest Piedmont region of NC and neighboring counties in southwestern Virginia. Founded in 1957, NRH is an independently operated, national award-winning healthcare facility. Northern Medical Group is the Hospital’s physician network of primary and specialty care providers, delivering a wide range of services to meet the community’s needs. NRH offers an array of outpatient services, including laboratory testing, X-ray services, CT, MRI, ultrasound, 3D mammography, and physical rehabilitation services. NRH also has a state-of-the-art Surgery Center providing a wide range of inpatient and outpatient procedures, including orthopedics, gynecology, gastroenterology, urological, eye surgeries, and other general surgeries to meet our community’s and region’s surgical needs.
