LUMBERTON — A hospitalist and a nurse practitioner have recently joined Southeastern Health.

Dr. Kunal Buch will work at Southeastern Regional Medical Center as a hospitalist, a physician who specializes in treatment of patients in the hospital setting.

Buch, a native of India, earned his medical degree from St. George’s Medical University in Grenada, West Indies, in May 2012. Buch completed several clinical appointments in the United Kingdom and the United States before completing an internal medicine residency at New York Hospital of Queens in Flushing, N.Y., in June 2015.

Buch lives in Fayetteville.

Brooke Grooms, a certified family nurse practitioner, will join the new Southeastern Health Mall Clinic.

Grooms is a Robeson County native. She completed her undergraduate studies in Molecular Biology and Nursing and a master’s degree in Public Administration at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 2007. She also got a master’s degree in Nursing with family nurse practitioner training from The University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2011.

Grooms has worked in Southeastern’s Emergency Department, Southeastern Digestive Health and Southeastern Occupational Health W.O.R.K.S. She lives in Lumberton with her husband, Billy, and has five children: Zeke, Makenzie, Paxton, Declan and Mila.

The clinic, formerly Southeastern Urgent Care Lumberton, is located in the Southeastern Health Mall on the campus of Biggs Park Mall. The clinic will open Wednesday and will operate Mondays through Fridays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will accept patients on a walk-in basis only. A range of medical conditions and X-ray services will be offered. For information, call 910-272-1175.

Kunal Buch
https://www.robesonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/web1_DSC_0029e.jpgKunal Buch

Brooke Grooms
https://www.robesonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/web1_Grooms-2c-Brooke.jpgBrooke Grooms

Staff report