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Please join us in congratulating our Structural Heart Valve team, for reaching a remarkable surgical milestone: their 500th TAVR procedure! This innovative, minimally invasive approach to heart valve replacement serves patients with severe aortic stenosis whose age, frailty or other underlying conditions place them at too high a risk for traditional surgery. This achievement is one of many that continue to position Carilion as the region's leader in heart care. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQfgT
Inside the walls of Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital’s biplane neuroangiography suite, neurointerventional radiologists perform nearly 1,000 procedures each year. Technological advances are enabling the doctors to deliver stents, coils, flow diverters, and clot retrievers to affected vessels with precision and a high degree of success for treatment of brain aneurysms and ischemic strokes. Follow along our photo essay for a day in the life of the neuroangiography suite at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQzZs
Jefferson College of Health Sciences hosted our tenth annual Interprofessional Education experience on our campus in Roanoke. Using simulation, students are immersed in a realistic healthcare situation with multiple injured patients, portrayed by standardized patient (actors). Check out the full event gallery online now: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQzx9
Patient Safety and Awareness Week has come and gone, but in a recent post for the American Hospital Association, Carilion Clinic president/CEO and AHA chair Nancy Howell Agee described how Carilion employs human factors research to ensure patient safety 24/7/365. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQzGo
It has been a long road for Dylan Collins, but thanks to his care team at Carilion and a special device called ECMO, he has made a nearly complete recovery. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQzGh
Carilion Clinic, a nonprofit healthcare organization with 209 practice sites, employs 696 physicians and 12,800 other individuals to provide care for around 1 million Virginians each year. The National Center for Healthcare Leadership named Carilion Clinic among the Top 10 Best Organizations for Leadership Development, and the health system earned the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Beacon Award for Excellence, recognizing the healthcare organization's positive and supportive working environment. Carilion also offers wellness discounts, tuition reimbursement and incentives, as well as farm-to-table cooperatives. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQzGZ
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Congratulations and thank you to everyone who came out for Clean Valley Day! We had a record number of volunteers thanks to our partnership with Clean Valley Council and Jefferson College of Health Sciences! Special thanks to our Community Health and Outreach team for following the work party with a neighborhood block party at Jackson Park Library -- they offered free health screenings, healthy cooking demos and more! http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQzeF
Carilion's Forensic Nurse Examiner Program is now in its 22nd year. It is a vital program at Carilion that aides victims of crime and abuse. Learn more about the work these special nurses do in the latest issue of Carilion Medicine magazine. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vQzee
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