A Doctor's Office in Town: Cabarrus Family Medicine in Mt. Pleasant

Drive east out of Concord and the shopping centers thin out into farmland. About a dozen miles on, you reach Mt. Pleasant — a town that counted 1,671 residents at the 2020 U.S. Census. On Cook Street sits a doctor's office that plenty of Cabarrus County residents don't realize is there: Atrium Health Primary Care Cabarrus Family Medicine.

It is not a satellite clinic with one nurse and a fax machine. It is a full family medicine practice — and the size of its bench is the part that surprises people.

Thirteen Providers, One Small Town

Atrium Health lists thirteen providers seeing patients at the Cook Street location. Family medicine physicians make up most of the roster — Susan R. Andersen, MD; Robert A. Lambert, MD; Stephen M. Causey, MD; Timothy E. Paul, MD; Madelaine Rose Wade, MD; Apoorva Reddy, MD; Emily Marie Manlove, MD; and Michael Eric Steinbacher, MD among them — alongside nurse practitioner Michele St. Clair Sherrill, FNP, and psychologist April Arthur Lamanno, PhD. Every provider listed accepts new patients, and every one of them treats all ages.

That last detail matters more than it sounds. In a town this size, a practice that only saw adults would send half the families in Mt. Pleasant somewhere else. This one takes newborns and it takes seniors — what the practice itself describes as being the specialists you will never outgrow.

The Drive You Don't Have to Make

Solo Faith Church spends a lot of time thinking about transportation. Our food pantry delivers groceries by DoorDash specifically because getting across Cabarrus County is the barrier that stops people — not willingness, not need, just the absence of a working car or a ride that shows up. Healthcare runs into the same wall.

A Mt. Pleasant family without reliable transportation is looking at a round trip into Concord for a sick child, a blood pressure check, a diabetes follow-up. A full practice in town collapses that trip to a few minutes. Cabarrus Family Medicine lists x-ray, laboratory and diagnostic testing among its services, along with pharmaceutical services — so the follow-up errands can stay close to home too.

The practice also lists behavioral health and counseling services, and a psychologist on the Mt. Pleasant provider roster backs that up. Mental health care inside a primary care office, in a town of under two thousand people, is not something to take for granted. For a lot of neighbors, the first honest conversation about anxiety or grief happens in a room they already trust.

A Teaching Practice, and What That Buys You

Cabarrus Family Medicine's staff includes faculty and residents from the Atrium Health Cabarrus Family Medicine Residency Program. Practically speaking, that means the physician treating your family is often also teaching the next generation of family doctors — which tends to keep a practice current.

There is one more piece worth naming. Atrium Health describes Cabarrus Family Medicine as the area's only family practice whose doctors care for their own patients in the hospital. If a Mt. Pleasant patient is admitted to Atrium Health Cabarrus in Concord, it is their own physician on the case rather than someone meeting them for the first time. Continuity like that is hard to manufacture.

Cabarrus Family Medicine's care model is relationship-based, from newborn visits through care for the elderly.

Where to Find Them

The office is at 8560 Cook St., Mt. Pleasant, NC 28124. The main number is 704-436-6521 and the fax is 704-436-9505. Hours are posted for each location on the Atrium Health site, and appointments can be booked online. Five of the providers listed at this office offer video visits in addition to in-person care — worth asking about on a day when getting into town is hard.

To see the practice as a whole — offices in China Grove, Concord, Harrisburg, Kannapolis, Locust, Mt. Pleasant and the University area — visit Atrium Health Primary Care Cabarrus Family Medicine. For hours, providers, and directions specific to this office, the Mt. Pleasant location page carries the current details.

At Solo Faith Church — 587 Old Charlotte Rd SW in Concord — we keep a running list of the places our neighbors can actually get to. The rest of that list lives at solofaith.org.

Questions Mt. Pleasant Neighbors Ask

Do I have to drive to Concord for lab work or x-rays?

Not according to the practice's own service list. X-ray, laboratory and diagnostic testing are listed among the services offered at Cabarrus Family Medicine, as are pharmaceutical services. Call the office at 704-436-6521 to confirm what is available on a given day.

Can one office really see my newborn and my mother?

That is the practice's stated model. Every provider listed at the Mt. Pleasant location is marked as treating all ages, and the published service list runs from newborn care through care for the elderly.

What happens if I end up in the hospital?

Atrium Health states that Cabarrus Family Medicine physicians care for their own patients at Atrium Health Cabarrus in Concord, and describes itself as the area's only family practice that does so.

Are they accepting new patients?

Every provider listed at the Mt. Pleasant office is marked as accepting new patients. Appointment availability varies by physician, so call 704-436-6521 before you go.

Solo Faith Church features Cabarrus Family Medicine's Mt. Pleasant office in our Solo Faith Directory because a doctor's office you can reach without a car — or without having to ask someone for a favor to get there — is one of the quietest forms of dignity a small town can offer its people. Health and distance are tangled together in Cabarrus County, and neighbors deserve to know when that distance has already been closed for them.

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Community Support Note: This spotlight is part of Solo Faith Church's local business directory initiative to uplift our Concord and Cabarrus County neighbors. Information was responsibly compiled from Atrium Health's public website and publicly available records to help our congregation and community discover local services.