Carilion Clinic Dental, in collaboration with Carilion Children's Pediatrics and Carilion Community Health, held its second annual Super Smile Savers event on Saturday, February 8th from 9-12PM. Volunteers provided free dental evaluations, sealants, SDF and Fluoride varnish applications to children ages 6-16 at the event, in a fun, carnival environment.

Today our fabulous Inpatient Rehab Liaison team helped spread a little love and cheer with a Hot Chocolate Bar in their area for our Social Work and Acute Therapy staff!  This hard working team of individuals collaborate across the system with the SW and therapy teams to help our patients seek IPR services to aid in their recovery.  Thanks for all you do!

The Wellness at Work team screened and educated 100 employees at Wear Red Day! Screenings included lipid profile/glucose, blood pressure, and InBody body composition.

Employees had the opportunity to learn more about Personify Health (formerly Virgin Pulse) and the new Weight Watchers benefit offered to all employees.

Pictured from left; Becky Collins, Susan Stanley, Kim Butterfield, Julie Blanchard, Melanie Suga, Vonda Johnston, Julie Jackson, and Salina Speck-Thayer.

Congratulations to Hillsville Family Practice for achieving the 99th percentile in the Press Ganey metric - "Would Recommend this Practice"

FRONT ROW SEATED (l to r):

Tamra R. Williams, FNP; Teressa Hurst, RN; Office Manager, Kristy Vest, FNP

BACK ROW (l to r):

It was another great year for our Greening the Office Certification program, with two offices achieving GOLD Level certification and one office achieving SILVER. Read about the sustainability work taking place in each of these offices below.  

Medical Staff Services

Lisa- you are amazing and always available to help navigate complex needs for our patients.  Thank you for assisting with the payer issue and the complex patient at hand, especially on a Friday evening.   Your work makes all the difference!

Over the last couple of months, the teams have been at work implementing and coordinating use of a new scale, the Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression Youth Version (DASA-YV). This is so that we can regularly assess and measure aggression for our Carilion Mental Health Child and Adolescent Inpatient patients (Rehab 3). This is now implemented, built into the Epic nursing shift assessment flowsheets, and also set up to automatically display these latest scores on Teletracking for staff to visually see the levels on the unit.

There are many statements that can describe a great team like, Coming together is a beginning, Staying together is a progress, and Working together is a success. One finger cannot lift a pebble, or No individual can win a game by himself.

10 West has been fortunate to work closely with the Virtual Care Center from day one as a collaborative effort to provide safe patient care and we consider their team a part of our team even though they are not physically on the unit or in the building. Today we received an in person visit from some members of their team. Virtual Care Center "adopted" 10 west as part of their holiday project and collected a variety of items for patients including activity books, puzzles, and fidgets. We are so appreciative! Thank you, Jennifer Handy and Wanda Roberston and all of the Virtual Care Center!