Carilion Children's has received the American Heart Association's Target: Survival quality achievement award for its commitment to delivering high-quality, science-backed care for patients who experience in-hospital cardiac arrest, helping improve survival rates. In-house cardiac arrest remains a major clinical and quality of care challenge in U.S. hospitals.  

Congratulations Dr Rhea, from your Vinton family. Were so honored to have spent this special day with you. 

Shout out to Kelly Carr, our Early Mobility and Safe Patient Handling Manager at CMC.  Kelly has helped arrange a pretty amazing line up of speakers at our first every Early Mobility Symposium coming up on August 21st!   Sign up in available in workday and open to all disciplines.  Please encourage teams to register for this opportunity to learn more and enhance the care we provide our patients.  Deadline to sign up in August 17th.  Search "Mobility Symposium" in Workday or use the QR code in the flyer.

Meadow, Andrew Tressler, Robin Williamson, and Alicia Mcallister visited Carilion Giles Community Hospital on Monday July 20th to round with employees spreading smiles and happiness throughout the hospital. We appreciate the unwavering commitment of the chaplaincy services team to employee well-being!  

ON 7/22/2026, WE WERE HAVING AN EXTREMELY BUSY TIME IN RESPIRATORY, THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOSPITAL. MULTIPLE TRIPS WITH VENTED PATIENTS, INTUBATIONS, RAPIDS AND CODES. THE CHRSYTAL SPRINGS TOWER WAS HECTIC. IN 9 CST ICU, WE HAD AN UNSTABLE VENTED POST CODE TRANSFERED TO US AND ANOTHER PATIENT WHO URGENTLY NEEDED TO GO TO THE CATH LAB; PLUS ANOTHER THAT WAS NEEDING TO BE INTUBATED, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. HELP WAS IN SHORT SUPPLY, BUT RT SHEYLA HERNANDEZ STEPPED UP TO COVER THE UNIT FOR THE INTUBATION WHILE WE WERE IN THE CATH LAB.

9MICU Congratulations on an Outstanding Achievement!

This accomplishment is a true testament to the hard work, dedication, and unwavering commitment this team demonstrates every day in providing safe, high-quality patient care. Achieving this in any unit is remarkable, but in a Trauma ICU, where patients require complex and intensive care, it is especially extraordinary.

I like to recognize Eikonja Johnson for being a great Team Player when it comes to getting patients checked in and preregistered. I do not always work in the same building with her but she is always there to help me with preregistration for the patients that forgot or didn't understand what they were being asked to do before their procedure.  With her always there no matter what we are able to work together to get the patient in and out faster to recover with less headache of the back end stuff. Thank You for All You Do!!

We have come to the finale of our ICU Strong campaign, and it has been an amazing experience!  Thank you to all who participated - for your dedication to strengthening teamwork, for supporting one another, and for promoting excellence in critical care.  Above all else - thank you for your continued commitment to the patients we serve!  Always remember - Together We Are ICU Strong!

The winners for June are:

Robert Timmons does an incredible job keeping Community Hospital clean and organized. Robert cleans, dusts, vacuums and scrubs everything, including the bathrooms! No other EVS employee does a better job. Everyone at Community is happy to see Robert arrive because we know everything will be clean and smelling great!

On Thursday, the Compliance and Privacy team had the pleasure of welcoming a very special guest to our staff meeting—Meadow!

No matter what role we serve in healthcare whether we're on the front lines or working behind the scenes it's always nice to be greeted by a friendly face that brings a smile to everyone's day. Meadow certainly did just that!