At Morningside Urban Farm, our community garden and health education center in Southeast Roanoke, graduate students from Virginia Tech's M.S. in Nutrition and Dietetics program have made a big difference in a short amount of time.
Hospitals can be intimidating places—combine a patient’s fears with a sterile environment that doesn't have the comforts of home, and a person's anxiety level can increase easily.
Recent studies have shown that there is an effective way to ease stress, reduce the use of pain medication, lower blood pressure and heart rate and even shorten a patient’s length of stay: through the healing power of art.
Do you screen some of the calls that come to your phone as an unrecognizable number? So do many of our patients. And when patients miss our calls, that can also lead to missed appointments.
While automated phone calls with customized voice message reminders have been helpful, we’ve taken our communications a step further by reaching our patients how they prefer to be reached—via text message.
Cybercriminals are using the coronavirus pandemic to develop new phishing and identity-theft scams. We recently learned about a new scam involving unemployment benefits.
Our Information Security team is working with the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) to investigate a fraudulent unemployment claim made using an employee's personal information. The employee received a letter from the VEC regarding an unemployment application, even though the employee did not apply for unemployment benefits. The letter included a weekly benefit amount and other personal information.
Our organization, like others, has policies in place so we know what processes we should follow and what our organization expects of us.
Several policies have changed over the last few months, including:
When we’re on social media, we are all representatives of Carilion. That’s why we have a Social Media and Online Activity Policy[link to policy] to help guide us as we make sure that our online interactions with others reflect our organization’s values.
Our organization takes inappropriate employee social media activity very seriously. The reason is that the consequences can be very serious for our organization. Inappropriate employee social media activity can:
During the 1950s, the hospital's residency and intern programs grew. Since 1952, there had been a resident available 24 hours a day to respond to patient needs.
More manpower was needed at the hospital, which had completed a major expansion in 1956. The hospital was also undertaking major improvements in technology, especially with radiology.
By 1959, the hospital added residencies in in medicine and surgery. A full four-year residency in pathology was approved in 1960, but was dropped in 1965.
We have reached an agreement to purchase the last 20% share of CSJH from the SJH Community Health Foundation for $10.9 million, giving us full ownership of the hospital.
We do not expect any day-to-day operations to change. We’ll rename the hospital Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital, consistent with the names of all other Carilion facilities, once we work through necessary regulations. The new name amplifies our commitment to a growing region.
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!
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 who came before us.
But there are mysteries in our archives—and you can help us solve them!
