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March Events at Pardee
Monday, February 20th, 2012Paul Martin, CHT, of The Comprehensive Wound Healing Center at Pardee Hospital receives certification as a Hyperbaric Technologist
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Paul Martin, CHT, received national certification as a Hyperbaric Technologist from the National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology.
Martin joined Pardee Hospital in May 2011 with the addition of the Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers at The Comprehensive Wound Healing Center at Pardee. He currently serves as the Lead Hyperbaric Technologist and Safety Director at the Center. Martin is a Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician and has worked in Emergency Medicine and rural health care for over 30 years.
The National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology is a non-profit certifying organization designed to meet the clinical, technical and safety needs of the discipline of undersea and hyperbaric medicine.
Pardee Hospital featured on WLOS Health Alert promo
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012Pardee Hospital was proud to be featured by WLOS for their Health Alert promo. News 13′s Jay Siltzer digs to find the latest innovations from the medical field and give you the details on how they will affect your and your family’s health. You can find WLOS Health Alert stories here: http://wlos.com/shared/newsroom/features/health-alert/wlos_index.shtml
See Pardee featured here
Pardee welcomes Shawn Fiora, FNP, to the Pardee Pain Center
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Pardee is proud to announce Shawn Fiora, FNP, has recently joined the Pardee Pain Center and is affiliated with the Comprehensive Pain Consultants of the Carolinas.
Fiora received her Master of Science and completed her Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) from Wright State University, located in Dayton, Ohio. Fiora is board-certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
The Pardee Pain Center provides treatment for chronic pain and diseases of the spine and is located within Pardee Hospital. The medical director, Edward A. Lewis, M.D., is board-certified in both anesthesiology and pain medicine. The Pain Center offers a variety of treatment options for chronic pain and diseases of the spine including x-ray guided diagnostic and therapeutic injections, medical management, facet, sacroiliac and nerve root blocks, spinal cord stimulation and opioid management.
For more information, contact your primary care physician, or call the Pardee Pain Center directly at (828) 694-4548.
February events at Pardee
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Mission Pardee Health Campus Agreement Signed
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
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.
Pardee Hospital to host community blood drive
Thursday, January 19th, 2012Pardee 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.
Mission Pardee Health Campus :: Moving Forward
Thursday, January 19th, 2012The Mission Pardee Health Campus is moving forward after yesterday’s County Commissioners Meeting. The meeting was cover by multiple media outlets.
From www.blueridgenow.com, “Pardee and Mission hospitals’ proposed health facility on the county line reached another milestone Wednesday after the Henderson County Board of Commissioners gave the OK to move ahead with the project.”
From www.hvillscoop.com, “”I am pleased to say Mission’s leadership has offered the concessions as requested,” Kirby told the board during the afternoon session of their day long meeting, adding that the adjustments had been futher reviewed by both legal counsel for Pardee’s Board of Directors and that of their parent organzation UNC Heath Systems. “We’re excited to see this as a business venture for the town of Fletcher and they feel the same way. I feel it only appropriate that Pardee’s Board of Trustees allow me to sign the memo of understanding next week and that we all move forward with this project.”
Visit missionpardeehealthcampus.org for details about the project.
Pardee Hospital becomes first hospital in North Carolina to receive ISO accreditation for quality standards
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
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