In your job at Carilion, you might have access to Epic (our electronic medical record). Epic contains our patients’ most private information. They put their trust in us to take care of them, and it is up to us to respect their privacy.
Beginning Aug. 1, you will notice changes to the SafeWatch portal when you report an event.
Why? Because we listened to you! Entering a patient safety event, near miss or unsafe condition takes time out of your busy day, so we’re making your experience better.
Target Zero Harm is on Inside Carilion and in the ePulse every quarter to keep you in the know about the great work that's happening systemwide to keep our patients and team members safe—and how you can help! Check it out and watch for other stories that demonstrate our commitment to quality and patient and staff safety.
The 2024 performance evaluation period is right around the corner. It's a good idea to track progress on your goals as you go, so you can capture all the great work you're doing.
Updating your goals now will also mean less work for you when it's time to prepare for your performance review in the coming weeks.
As you track progress on your goals in Cornerstone, consider these tips.
Use Microsoft Word to keep an ongoing record of your goals. Then copy and paste your updates in Cornerstone as you go. Here's why:
The 2024 performance evaluation period is right around the corner. It's a good idea to track progress on your goals as you go, so you can capture all the great work you're doing.
Updating your goals now will also mean less work for you when it's time to prepare for your performance review in the coming weeks.
As you track progress on your goals in Cornerstone, consider these tips.
Use Microsoft Word to keep an ongoing record of your goals. Then copy and paste your updates in Cornerstone as you go. Here's why:
Development and use of Artificial Intelligence is moving at a rapid pace. We want to provide you with an update on our objectives and strategy to govern and deploy AI tools to assist our physicians, APPs, and staff.
Cyber-attacks and data breaches are a real threat to health care organizations like ours. A threat can cause disruptions in access to software we use daily. Epic has taken steps to ensure health care organizations can still access a “view only” copy of their production environments during technology disruptions. This is called Epic Hosting Read Only (HRO).
The Carilion Administrative Services Building (CASB) in downtown Roanoke is undergoing some renovations to its exterior.
Over the next six months, workers will apply a special film to the building's exterior glass surfaces. The film is designed to strengthen the glass and improve the 50-year-old building's efficiency and integrity. The scaffolding will remain while the work is happening, but workers will remove it once the project is complete.
The Kirk Avenue parking lot behind CASB will be closed beginning August 5 throughout the renovation.
Our Graduate Medical Education (GME) residency and fellowship programs are an important part of our community. These programs are training the next generation of physicians to serve patients and their families.
This year, we have 29 new trainees joining us who graduated from Virginia schools, including five graduates of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. It is our hope that upon graduation, these residents will continue to improve the health of our communities by staying in the Commonwealth.
