Your next quarterly learning module for Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) will be assigned to your transcript in Workday on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Be sure to review your transcript and complete your elearning and skills activities to ensure your American Heart Association certification remains current.

Because of the 2025 AHA science update and our transition from Cornerstone to Workday, there are several key points and deadlines to know about completing your RQI modules. 

As part of Sepsis Awareness Month in September, our teams were busy celebrating excellence in the recognition, treatment and prevention of sepsis—because our commitment to decreasing sepsis mortality and providing better patient outcomes is ongoing. 

Blue Ridge Cancer Care’s EMR is now accessible directly within Epic through the new iKnowMed Patient Viewer (iPV) activity.

About iPV

The iKnowMed Patient Viewer integrates the iKnowMed patient record with Carilion’s Epic application, allowing clinicians to view patient information without leaving Epic. Data in iPV is updated in real time and can be accessed with a single click. 

iPV displays the following information:

Habib Samady, MD, will join our team as Carilion’s inaugural senior vice president and director of the Cardiovascular Institute. 

Dr. Samady brings more than two decades of leadership in advancing cardiovascular care, most recently serving as president of the Cardiovascular service line and co-founder and president of the Georgia Heart Institute at Northeast Georgia Health System. Prior to that he served as a professor of medicine, director of interventional cardiology and cardiac catheterization laboratory at Emory University School of Medicine.

Effective Monday, September 1, 2025, we will retire the COVID Level of Service placeholder code. Starting in September, clinicians must use standard Evaluation and Management (E/M) codes for all patient encounters. Please visit the Digital Health hub home page to review related communication and job aids. 

Clinical team members must complete a competency checklist in Cornerstone during orientation and annually to validate essential knowledge and skills required to effectively perform your job and provide high-quality patient care.

We are moving from Cornerstone to Elsevier Clinical Skills for better tracking and validation, and important changes are coming with this transition.

The Virginia Division of Certificate of Public Need (VDCOPN) has approved our application for a new 50-bed inpatient medical rehabilitation hospital to be built in the City of Roanoke. We’re continuing to negotiate a partnership with Riverdale Southeast, LLC, to build the hospital in the Riverdale mixed-use development and lease it to Carilion.

We have updated our policy related to managing prior authorizations for elective surgical and diagnostic services. We want to make sure that clinicians and patients know when a procedure has not been authorized by the patient’s insurance provider and that there is a process in place to determine next steps. 

What’s Changing

Beginning Wednesday, July 16:

The Cardiovascular Institute is now open at CRMH, as the final phase of opening the Crystal Spring Tower. The tower will bring many of our Cardiovascular experts under one roof, utilizing state-of-the-art equipment and technology to provide the best quality care for patients. It also fosters collaboration among increasingly specialized teams, building on research, clinical education and innovation that advances care for patients, now and into the future.

We're making updates to the code status language in Epic to reduce confusion and make it clear when the patient's advance care planning wishes need to be documented.

In Epic, code status refers to a patient's wishes regarding resuscitation during a medical emergency, particularly cardiac or respiratory arrest. It's a set of instructions for the medical team indicating what measures to take, or not take, to try and revive a patient.