You may recall our CEO, Nancy Howell Agee, and her husband, the Honorable G. Steven Agee, donated $1 million toward building a new cancer center. Since that time, much work on the project has happened out of public view. While projects of this magnitude take time, it’s exciting to share where we are today.
Each year, approximately 49 million people worldwide are affected by sepsis. Yet, an estimated 35% of U.S. adults have never heard of it.
Whether you work directly with patients or not, knowing the risks and spotting the signs of sepsis are critical to providing quality patient care—and to saving lives!
After an extensive national search, we’re excited to announce that Dr. Rawle “Tony” Seupaul has been hired as executive vice president and chief physician executive. He’ll begin his new role in December.
We continue to monitor COVID-19 and its seasonality in our region. We have seen upticks in community spread and resulting hospitalizations, but regular operations have not been disrupted.
We’ve been fortunate to enter the endemic stage of COVID-19, incorporating our response into our daily operations. As anticipated, we have seen upticks in cases recently and want to remind employees of the resources available to them.
Music therapy is one of many methods that our health care teams use to help our patients on their journey. Using music-based interventions—such as playing instruments, writing and singing songs—our board-certified music therapists help patients reach therapeutic goals: including, social, communication, physical, spiritual or mental health goals.
This can mean helping patients express difficult emotions through music or regain skills that were lost due to traumatic injuries.
It’s not uncommon for many working in health care to struggle with alarm fatigue. Whether you’re inundated by email or surrounded by bedside alarms, the noise can sometimes be difficult to cut through.
Our Emergency Management and Police and Security teams are rolling out a new way to make sure you receive emergency life/safety alerts to keep you, your team and patients safe, using the Everbridge Member app.
We're actively working on collecting, identifying, digitizing and archiving thousands of photographs from Carilion’s history.
Preserving and maintaining our history is the best way to know where we’ve been and how far we’ve come and to appreciate all the health care workers that came before us.
But there are mysteries in our archives—and you can help us solve them!
With the region’s only designated Level I Trauma Center for adult and pediatric patients at CRMH, we are ready at a moment's notice to help patients in critical condition, facing an unimaginable crisis. Kaylee Stanley was one of those patients.
With the region’s only designated Level I Trauma Center for adult and pediatric patients at CRMH, we are ready at a moment's notice to help patients in critical condition, facing an unimaginable crisis. Kaylee Stanley was one of those patients.
Our Human Research Protections Office (HRPO) provides oversight authority for research that involves our patients, employees and/or facilities; it currently oversees approximately 500 research studies and supports over 200 researchers.
