About CCS

Welcome to Central Carolina Surgery.  We are a group of general surgeons serving Greensboro and the surrounding Triad communities.  The physicians and staff of Central Carolina Surgery offer our patients the highest quality of care in a pleasant setting.  CCS provides a full range of general surgical and laparoscopic procedures including surgery for breast cancer and benign breast disease, hernias, thyroid gland, colon surgery, and weight loss surgery. CCS also provides services for injured patients through the trauma program at Cone Hospital.

 

     Statement of Core Values and Mission

    We are highly-qualified, board-certified physicians providing a broad range of general surgery specialty services to central North Carolina and southern Virginia.

  We provide professional surgical services in a safe, effective and timely manner. We emphasize continuity of care and teamwork in all physician-patient relationships. We commit ourselves to excellence in patient care by subscribing to the highest standards of professional education, review of our clinical outcomes, and regular assessment of patient satisfaction.

  We educate our patients, their families, the public, and other health care professionals. We conduct clinical research in an effort to advance medical scientific knowledge. Our physicians are leaders in the hospital and in professional and community organizations.

  We believe that the highest standards of practice are maintained in an atmosphere of compassion for our patients and their families and respect for all of our colleagues in the health care professions.

We will continue to lead state-of-the-art general surgery care in the region.

 

History of Central Carolina Surgery, P. A.

Central Carolina Surgery, PA became an official corporation on October 1, 1999.  The founding members of this practice and their roots in the surgical history of Greensboro go back to the late 1950s.  At that time, there were four surgeons who practiced somewhat independently.  John Lyday had been a young aviator in WWII and came home to attend medical school.  His graduation and surgical training made him eligible to be "drafted" again into the Korean War.  It was during this time that he was a part of the famous MASH group that was later popularized on the screen and on the subsequent TV series.  He was "Trapper John" and when he returned to Greensboro, he joined into practice with his uncle Russell Lyday in surgery.  To this group was later added CCS founding partners, Thomas Price and David Newman.

Two solo surgeons of the same era were Cotton Morris and Robert Farley.  As their individual practices grew, Dr. Morris recruited Peter Young to join him and Dr. Farley recruited Murray Abrams to join him.  Drs. Morris and Young would later add Michael Leone and Haywood Ingram to form Greensboro Surgical Associates.  Drs. Farley and Abrams added Chris Streck and Matt Martin.

In 1995, there was a merger of three surgical practices to form Triad Surgical Specialists, P. A.  This group included Drs. Farley, Abrams, Streck, Martin, Price, Newman, Weatherly, Blievernicht, and Hoxworth.  Dr. Rosenbower later joined this group in 1996.

Greensboro Surgical Associates grew by merging with Drs. Timothy Davis and William Bowman and by recruiting Drs. Anita Lindsey, Todd Gerkin, and Kristen Earle (Hardcastle).

Thus, in 1999, Triad Surgical Specialists and Greensboro Surgical Associates merged to form Central Carolina Surgery (CCS) with the following physicians in order of seniority:  Drs. Young, Abrams, Price, Leone, Weatherly, Davis, Streck, Bowman, Ingram, Martin, Newman, Hoxworth, Lindsey, Gerkin, Earle, and Rosenbower.  The new practice moved into their present offices on the third floor of the Professional Medical Center on Church Street.