About Us
Who We are
Enabled on May 24, 1994, the Macon County Health Care Authority (MCHCA) is the organization that owns the Thomas Reed Medical Center in Tuskegee.
Operating the facility is a team effort with the MCHCA board of directors responsible for governance of the building while Community Hospital recruits and manages the staff, which includes nurse practitioner Candice Mangum and Dr. Robert Quarcoo.
Meet the Doctor
Dr. Robert Quarcoo is the physician on duty at Thomas Reed Medical Center. His specialties include family medicine, general internal medicine, minor surgery, pediatrics and senior citizen concerns.
He has been in the medical profession since 2009, spending the bulk of that time as a U.S. Army doctor. He attended medical school through the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP), an option provided by the U.S. military that also includes an obligation to work after training is completed, as a military doctor for a minimum of four years.
Dr. Quarcoo fulfilled that debt and actually exceeded it, starting in Louisiana followed by time in Germany, where he worked extensively with retired American civilians. In Germany, he also took care of families, delivered babies, performed minor surgical procedures, ran the hospital emergency room and he says, “pretty much took care of everything.”
Following that, he took a short-term military assignment in California and after ten years of service, was honorably discharged from the Army in 2020. His first civilian job was in Alabama at the urgent care facilities in Auburn and Opelika, owned by American Family Care (AFC).
When he learned about the opening in Tuskegee, he jumped at the opportunity to work in Macon County, which he considers an honor because of what he has read and heard about the history of this community. He says he knows many people in Macon County because he has treated them or their children as an urgent care doctor. He is impressed with the resources at the Thomas Reed Medical Center, saying he has almost everything he needs, including a high-performing lab, the environment to do minor surgeries and electronic medical records.
“Dr. Q” as he is affectionately called by patients and co-workers, is a primary care doctor, qualified to care for a wide range of patients, including newborns, children, women, men and senior citizens. As a family care doctor, he is equipped to perform minor surgeries such as skin biopsies, abscess drainage, toenail removals and he adds that primary care doctors also make the initial assessment prior to patients seeing a specialist, “We have to make that decision and make the referral.”
Patients can be seen as walk-ins or by appointments. For inquiries, call 334.727.5900. The office is open from 8:00am until 5:00pm, Monday through Thursday and 8:00am until 11:30am on Fridays. The address is 301 Wright Street, Tuskegee AL 36083.
Meet the Doctor
Dr. Robert Quarcoo is the physician on duty at Thomas Reed Medical Center. His specialties include family medicine, general internal medicine, minor surgery, pediatrics and senior citizen concerns.
He has been in the medical profession since 2009, spending the bulk of that time as a U.S. Army doctor. He attended medical school through the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP), an option provided by the U.S. military that also includes an obligation to work after training is completed, as a military doctor for a minimum of four years.
Dr. Quarcoo fulfilled that debt and actually exceeded it, starting in Louisiana followed by time in Germany, where he worked extensively with retired American civilians. In Germany, he also took care of families, delivered babies, performed minor surgical procedures, ran the hospital emergency room and he says, “pretty much took care of everything.”
Following that, he took a short-term military assignment in California and after ten years of service, was honorably discharged from the Army in 2020. His first civilian job was in Alabama at the urgent care facilities in Auburn and Opelika, owned by American Family Care (AFC).
When he learned about the opening in Tuskegee, he jumped at the opportunity to work in Macon County, which he considers an honor because of what he has read and heard about the history of this community. He says he knows many people in Macon County because he has treated them or their children as an urgent care doctor. He is impressed with the resources at the Thomas Reed Medical Center, saying he has almost everything he needs, including a high-performing lab, the environment to do minor surgeries and electronic medical records.
“Dr. Q” as he is affectionately called by patients and co-workers, is a primary care doctor, qualified to care for a wide range of patients, including newborns, children, women, men and senior citizens. As a family care doctor, he is equipped to perform minor surgeries such as skin biopsies, abscess drainage, toenail removals and he adds that primary care doctors also make the initial assessment prior to patients seeing a specialist, “We have to make that decision and make the referral.”
Patients can be seen as walk-ins or by appointments. For inquiries, call 334.727.5900. The office is open from 8:00am until 5:00pm, Monday through Thursday and 8:00am until 11:30am on Fridays. The address is 301 Wright Street, Tuskegee AL 36083.
Board of Directors
The Macon County Health Care Authority Board of Directors is comprised of individuals with strong ties to the community.
In 2023, the MCHCA board was engaged by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which has embarked on a nationwide campaign to develop a data base of one million Americans from diverse populations. The goal of the “All of Us Research Program” is to learn how people are affected by what they put in their bodies and how they conduct their lives. The overarching mission is for the NIH to find ways to treat and prevent diseases.
In 2022, MCHCA became the gateway for the Institutional Research Board (IRB), meaning outsiders who are interested in conducting medical research programs in Macon County must have their projects scrutinized by the health care authority. MCHCA Board Chairman, Bernice L. Frazier says, “If an IRB should exist anywhere, it should be here in Tuskegee where a shameful medical experiment took place beginning in the 1930s. We created this IRB against the backdrop of The US Public Service Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and we have vowed nothing like that will ever happen again in this community.”
Everything the MCHCA does is motivated by concern for the health of Macon County residents. This is why the board encourages everyone to maintain good health practices, including regular checkups by a physician.
Community Engagement
