Same Great Protocol, New Name
Beginning Jan. 2, our nationally recognized Heart Alert program will be called STEMI Alert program. The name change is necessary to enhance clarity and align our emergency response protocols for best practices in patient care.
What is a STEMI Alert?
Imagine trying to remember and perform a skill you learned a year ago or even decades ago—like playing an instrument or preparing an old recipe. The task might be challenging. Now, consider having only minutes to remember and perform a critical clinical technique when a patient's life is at stake. For EMTs and emergency physicians, it’s often a reality in high-stakes, non-routine situations.
We have updated our General Consent to Treatment and Financial Agreement forms.
The General Consent to Treatment allows our team to provide care. The Financial Agreement allows us to bill the patient's insurance for treatment provided. Patients are asked to sign these forms one time a year in the ambulatory setting and with each inpatient encounter.
The English-language versions will go into effect on Monday, Dec. 2. The Spanish-language version will go into effect in the near future.
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest current threats to public health, associated with over 35,000 deaths in the United States every year. Antibiotics are essential, lifesaving medications, but using antibiotics when they are not needed leads to the emergence of multi-drug resist organisms that are difficult or impossible to treat. It is estimated that up to 30 percent of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in the US are unnecessary, making this an important area for healthcare systems to tackle.
Velocity Care is moving from the Department of Family and Community Medicine to the Department of Emergency Medicine, where it was situated originally. It’s common among healthcare organizations to manage urgent care services through departments of emergency medicine.
Early this year, we submitted a Certificate of Public Need (COPN) application to the Virginia Division of COPN (VDCOPN) to start an adult kidney transplant program at CRMH. Throughout the year, we have gathered significant support for our application and began a public campaign during the summer.
Today, leaders, donors and cancer survivors broke ground on the Carilion Taubman Cancer Center, marking the beginning of construction on the six-story building on the Virginia Tech Carilion Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke.
The building will replace our 41-year-old cancer facility on South Jefferson Street and accommodate the increasing number of cancer patients in our region as well as expand treatment options, research and support services.
Daylight saving time begins in the spring, when you set your clocks ahead one hour. It ends in the fall, when you set your clocks back one hour to standard time. Daylight time begins on the second Sunday of March each year and ends on the first Sunday of November.
Sprained it, strained it, broke it, bruised it?
Ortho Urgent is a new service opening Sept. 3 in Christiansburg, providing quick access when you have urgent orthopaedic needs.
Call-ahead is preferred but walk-ins are welcome. This visit will be billed as a specialty co-pay.
Ortho Urgent Details
CRMH Lobby Pharmacy will be temporarily closed Thursday, Dec. 5 beginning at 9 p.m. through Sunday, Dec. 8 at 7:30 a.m. to transition to new pharmacy management software. This upgrade is designed to enhance both efficiency and patient safety, allowing us to better meet the needs of our patients and employees in the long term.
