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A child's cancer diagnosis affects everyone in the family. We are grateful to the Carilion Children's families who shared their stories with WDBJ7 about their experiences and the challenges faced by caregivers. If you missed Crushing Cancer, this special edition of Your Family Matters is now available online. Meet Sutton, Jilly, the team at Roanoke's Ronald McDonald House, and mental health and oncology specialists from Carilion Clinic and Blue Ridge Cancer Care. The program also highlights cancer research happening right here in Roanoke. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQryu
Yesterday, the final beam was placed on top of the Virginia Tech Biomedical Research Expansion in Roanoke, signaling the next phase of construction on the 139,000-square-foot building. The beam had been signed by more than 100 students, faculty, staff, and health care providers associated with Carilion Clinic and Virginia Tech. Learn more about our progress and this exciting partnership: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQryH
Batter Up! Come out and support the Carilion team on Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. at Cave Spring High School in the annual Carilion vs. Lewis Gale softball game. Cheer for your favorite team (Carilion, of course!) and help raise money for the American Heart Association. We will see you there.
For many cancer survivors, their experience can continue to cause harm even when their cancer is in remission. Carilion Clinic psychiatrist Robert Trestman, M.D., says that giving voice to cancer-related anxiety, depression and PTSD can be healing. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQr9u
Although cardiac arrests are most often seen in the emergency department and intensive care units, they can occur anywhere in the hospital. So, how do we ensure that physicians and nurses in other units, where heart attacks are relatively rare, are also fully prepared to help a patient in need? Enter the Sim Lab. Learn more in the latest issue of Carilion Medicine http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQkks
A new playroom at Carilion Children's Hospital will allow our young patients to take a break from the hard work of healing. The bright, cheerful space is named in memory of Hannah George. Take a virtual trip to Hannah's Place courtesy of WSLS: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQkkU
Moving from dope to hope - Carilion Clinic president/CEO Nancy Howell Agee outlines a few first steps hospitals can take to work toward a solution to the opioid epidemic http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQkHx
Pain management is a complex issue, especially when it comes to opioid prescriptions. Orthopaedic nurse Linda Franklin, R.N., shared tips from Carilion Clinic for taking opioids safely - and safely disposing of unused medications http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQMWy
As health care workers face the opioid epidemic head on, it is hard not to lose hope. In an article written for Becker's Hospital Review, Nancy Howell Agee, our president and CEO, talks about how she keeps hope and the urgency to act front and center. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vMXSB
As part of the fifth-anniversary celebration of the Virginia Museum of Transportation's "Wings Over Virginia" aviation gallery, Carilion Clinic unveiled an updated exhibition dedicated to its Life-Guard helicopter fleet. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQMXQ
