Pardee Hospital Board of Directors signed a letter of understanding today with Mission Hospital moving the construction of the Mission Pardee Health Campus forward.

The health center is a joint collaboration of Mission Hospitals and Pardee Hospital and will be located on the Buncombe and Henderson county line.  In addition to the letter of understanding, both counties have approved the facility plans along with building permits.

“Pardee Hospital is proud to serve alongside Mission to bring high quality, accessible and convenient health care services to Fletcher. The signing of this document today will allow Pardee and Mission to move forward with the Health campus project. We look forward to serving the folks in the northern end of the county.” said Jay Kirby, President and CEO of Pardee Hospital.

The letter of understanding details key points of medical services, land ownership, operations of the health campus, and management services. The project is currently planned as a two-level, approximately 80,000 square foot building. In addition to wellness and prevention programs, proposed services include imaging, urgent care, outpatient rehab, retail pharmacy, laboratory, conference and administrative space, and 20,000 square feet of physician office space.

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Pardee Hospital will host a community blood drive for the American Red Cross on Wednesday, Feb. 8, from 7:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. in the hospital’s Jamison Conference Room on the first floor.

In order to donate blood, one must be healthy, at least 17 years old, weigh 110 pounds or more, and not have donated blood in the past 56 days.  Walk-in donors will be accepted, but those with appointments will be seen first.

Appointments are required by calling (828) 696-4225 or emailing Judy Bolster at judy.bolster@pardeehospital.org.  Donors should enter the hospital through the main entrance on Justice St.  All donors are entered for a chance to win two domestic roundtrip tickets on Delta Airlines.

Pardee Hospital has received ISO 9001:2008 accreditation – the first and only North Carolina hospital to be accredited with this international quality standard for care.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) accreditation is a rigorous process in which a hospital improves and monitors the delivery of patient care, measures quality, and places the highest priority on eliminating errors. ISO standards are used internationally in different fields including agriculture, construction, manufacturing, aerospace, medical devices and healthcare.

“Pardee is extremely proud to receive ISO accreditation. Our mission is to provide quality and compassionate and safe services to improve the health of the people in the communities that we serve, and this accreditation validates our efforts,” said Beth Long, Compliance and Accreditation Officer at Pardee Hospital.

ISO standards are globally known and are considered the “gold” standard for all industries. The standards help Pardee to provide consistent patient care, ensuring that operational processes lead to both expected and improved patient outcomes.

“From a business perspective, the ISO certification is important because a third party entity verifies that an organization has quality management standards that meet and exceed what would be expected in an organization,” said Andrew Tate, CEO of Henderson County Partnership for Economic Development.

More than 32,000 organizations in the United States are ISO 9001:2008 certified. Currently, only 40 hospitals are certified in the United States.  For more information about the ISO 9001:2008 accreditation please visit iso.org.

Pardee Hospital produced ISO explanation video: click here

Pardee Hospital got the unique honor of helping a Marine who is serving overseas experience the birth of his daughter and help support and encourage his wife.

Times News reported on the story, click here to read the details.