Golden Living Center donates to Brody School of Medicine

From left, Dr. Tae Joon Lee, medical director at Golden Living Center; Maria Knupp, ECU family nurse practitioner; Dr. Kenneth Steinweg, chair of family medicine; Hal Garland, executive director of Golden Living Center; and Dr. Paul Cunningham, dean of the Brody School of Medicine, pose in front of Golden Living Center in Greenville. The center gave $112,079 to ECU to support teaching programs at the center. Photo by Cliff Hollis

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   Golden Living Center has donated $112,079 to the Department of Family Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University to support the department’s nursing home teaching project.

The department provides primary medical care for the residents of the local Golden Living facility on MacGregor Downs Road.

Hal Garland, executive director of the local Golden Living Center, presented the check Aug. 9 to Dr. Kenneth Steinweg, chair of the Department of Family Medicine; Dr. Paul Cunningham, dean of the Brody School of Medicine; Dr. Tae Joon Lee, medical director at Golden Living Center; and Maria Knupp, a family nurse practitioner in the family medicine department’s geriatric division.

The money will be used to support the instruction of family medicine residents and fellows in geriatrics and to help pay for salaries and teaching materials for the program.

Golden Living Center’s new 72,000-square-foot facility houses 152 residents.

This year is the 29th the center has supported the teaching project