The Carilion Heart Failure Clinic kicked off its first Support Group meeting on Thursday, February 21.  Dietitian intern, Kelly Drummond, volunteered her knowledge and time to show attendees how easy it is to prepare a tasty, but heart healthy, dinner. 

Attendees enjoyed themselves and provided very positive feedback.

The 2019 American Heart Association (AHA) Heart Ball was held on Saturday, February 16.

The event was a great success - with $120,000 raised ($10,000 more than last year).

Many employees from Carilion Clinic were present to enjoy the evening; which focused on Heart Failure advancements.

CRMH Rehab Dining and Nutrition Services team raised $500 for the Heart Walk.

The team consisted of:

Wanda Robertson, Gail Starkey, Cynthia Johnson, Danielle Price, and Charlene Jenkins-Logan.

They did on their off time. Way to go ladies.

HUGE thank you to Janee Bradshaw, Ashley Nolan, Deana King, and the entire Riverside 3 internal medicine staff for helping make the first annual Colon Cancer Awareness Event a massive success! Janee, Ashley, and Deana were immensely influential in banding Riverside 3 together as a community to raise awareness to the importance of colon cancer screening. The inaugural "Colon Crawl" memorial walk around riverside provided our clinic the opportunity to honor the lives of those affected by colon cancer.

Recently sickness has created a need for front office staffing in Occ Med, and the Wellness team have been quick to our rescue. We were struggling, but Ashlyn Gibson, Whitney Long and Maurissa Mursch-Medina were quick to answer our distress call.  They came running with smiling faces and cheerful attitudes, willing to help and learn about Occupational Medicine.  Ladies, we could not have made it through these busiest of days without you!  Thank you!  

Trelisha a 6 west nurse was concerned for one of her patients that something wasnt right. She had a gut feeling that something was wrong. She was able to get the patients doctor to check on the patient and determined they had to do an emergency surgery on the patient. With her hard work and persistence was able to get the patient the care she needed. What an amazing job by her and lisa for catching the issue.

In honor of Recreation Therapy Month, St. Albans would like to take some time to recognize some amazing people. Tina, John, Brie, Jane and RU Rec Therapy Interns (Morgan and Lauren) - thank you for all you do for St. Albans. The list is extensive on the ways you impact and support our patients. A few of these ways include the De-escalation Room that you worked so hard on putting together. The Clothing Room that is so well thought out, organized, and cared for, making it easy for staff to find what they need.

Thank you Carrie Williamson, BSW, Jessica Nichols, RN, and Southeast Family Practice! From our team to yours, we are very appreciative of the assistance and dedication in caring for our patient in such a short amount of time. We were able to smoothly transition our patient's care from one place to another with excellent communication and follow up because of your amazing teamwork!

From the bottom of my heart....THANK YOU!

Last week, in honor of Martin Luther King Day, members of the HR team volunteered to sort donated food items at Feeding America Southwest Virginia in Salem.  Thank you for all who participated in showcasing Carilion Clinic's values of Compassion and CommUNITY.  

For the past four months a group of employees worked with WDBJ to create a one-hour special showing what our community is doing to combat the opioid crisis. To Dr. John Burton, Erin Casey, Linda Franklin, Cheri Hartman, Dr. Jacinda Hays, Kimberly Hunt, Dr. Tom Kerkering, Dr. Kim Simcox and Dr. Bob Trestman: Thank you for being ambassadors of hope in our community during WDBJ's "Your Family Matters: Battling Back the Opioid Crisis" program yesterday evening.