The MedWest Health System is hosting a reception to welcome new local physicians in the area and allow members of the community to meet the new doctors. The physician welcome reception will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20 in the classroom at the MedWest Health & Fitness Center, on the MedWest-Haywood campus in Clyde.

The MedWest-Haywood reception will welcome emergency medicine doctors Mark Bernat, MD, Jack Ditty, MD, Audrey Grant, MD, Frederick Craig Miner, MD and Nathan Rhodes, MD with TeamHealth at MedWest-Haywood; anesthesiologist James Cox, MD with Asheville Anesthesia Associates; cardiologist Steven Gore, MD with Western Carolina Cardiology; internal medicine doctor David Hegerich, MD with Eagle Hospital Physicians; urologist Brooks Hooper, MD with Blue Mountain ...