When Susan Rivers, director, Carilion Clinic Life-Guard, learned flight operations were being impeded by helmets with problematic goggles, she contacted our COVID-19 Innovation team for assistance.
We will be visiting all of our hospitals in the coming weeks and months to learn more about how you have managed to turn challenges into opportunities for Collaboration.
Today we take a look at CFMH and CMC.
Entrances may look different with screening stations, but the same smiling faces are under those masks and PPE.
We are excited to announce that Daniel R. Karolyi, M.D., Ph.D., has accepted the position of Chair of Radiology for Carilion Clinic and Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
A new nursing unit has opened at 6 South in CRMH, helping to fill the growing need for more beds.
If you have not experienced being in the presence of someone severely ill with COVID-19, you may not fully understand the seriousness of the pandemic we are living through.
It’s about more than masks and social distancing. We have an opportunity to be part of the only solution we have right now; ensuring our actions benefit not only ourselves but our co-workers, their families and friends.
Many of us have heard stories about patients putting off much-needed care due to fear of possibly contracting COVID-19 during their appointment. We are currently running a social media and digital campaign to educate our communities about the steps we are taking to keep them safe—and to keep you safe.
More than two months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re fortunate that we have not seen a large influx of COVID-19-positive patients filling up our hospital beds.
But we still need to be prepared now and into the future—we’ve been working on a surge plan, should we need it.
SafeWatch is the cornerstone of our patient safety program—when you report something in SafeWatch, you are helping keep our patients safe. You can use SafeWatch to report events (where an issue reached a patient) as well as great catches (where an issue was caught before it reached a patient).
Each month, there are about 1,700 reports made through SafeWatch. Over a third of these are great catches.
Our Great Catch Awards recognize employees who identify and report potential errors or process issues before they can harm patients. Reporting these "great catches" can help us improve our systems and processes across Carilion to keep patients safe.
We recently gave two Great Catch awards.
Guy Katz, M.D., second-year resident in General Surgery, noticed that equipment at a patient’s bedside was not working appropriately. After he reported the issue, we made process changes and purchased a new type of equipment.
Patient transportation has come a long way since the horse-drawn ambulances of the early 1900s. Through the years, technology has improved patient transportation—whether on the ground or in the air.
Life-Guard 10 was purchased in 1982 to speed response times to communities in rural western Virginia; it was the first air medical service in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The helicopter held one pilot and one paramedic and could transport one patient.
