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.

Pardee Hospital Foundation board members and staff welcomed Lake Pointe Landing residents and shared complementary educational materials with attendees before and after Jay Kirby’s presentation. 

Highlights of Kirby’s presentation included:

• Pardee Hospital’s latest accolade as the only hospital in North Carolina to receive ISO (International Organization for Standards) Certification for its top quality standards. Pardee is one of only 40 hospitals in the U.S. that has earned this distinction.
• Discussion of the community benefits Pardee provides – a payroll of $74 million, annual revenues of more than $132 million, $9 million in uncompensated care, $10.1 million in unreimbursed care, Henderson County’s largest employee giving campaign to United Way and more.
• An overview of the hospital’s recent community partnerships including the approved Mission Pardee Health Campus in Fletcher and the services Pardee provides through Blue Ridge Community Health Services to underserved patients in Henderson County. 

 Lake Pointe Landing graciously treated attendees to punch, wine and cheese during the event.

Kirby wrapped up his presentation with a question and answer session.  Debbie Patrick, Pardee Foundation’s director of development and donor relations, and Lake Pointe Landing residents Dana Carpenter, a Pardee Hospital Auxiliary member and grateful patient, thanked the group for attending.  Twenty attendees signed up for one of Pardee Foundation’s popular, by invitation only, Making Rounds tours before leaving.

Meet the CEO receptions are sponsored by Pardee Foundation’s Generations of Excellence Committee, chaired by Rich Cooke and Greg Burnette.

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Noyes received his medical degree from Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, La., and completed residencies at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, Calif., and Tulane University Affiliated Hospitals in New Orleans, La.

Noyes served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve as well as the United States Navy for over 20 years. Noyes is a Certified Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and certified by the American Board of Surgery. He is also board-certified in Advanced Trauma Life Support, Advance Cardiac Life Support, and Basic Life Support. Noyes joins Pardee from the Naval Hospital in Pensacola, Fla., where he served as Chief of Surgery and a staff general surgeon.

Noyes is now accepting referrals for general surgery. Please call Western North Carolina Surgical Associates at 698-0581 for more information.

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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Drs. Das and Mackel were generous in their time to share with our guests the orthopedic surgeries they were performing.  Joe and Eileen from the day surgery crew also provided excellent information on processes in the surgical suites, the equipment the Foundation helped purchase, and data on Pardee’s low infection rates.  Our guests also visited the new Comprehensive Wound Center to see the new hyperbaric chambers.  Paul explained how oxygen therapy works and the types of patients who can benefit. 

“I really liked observing surgery and the willingness of the staff to impart information to us,” said Ann N., one of the participants. 

If you would like to participate in an upcoming Making Rounds tour, please contact the Foundation office at (828) 696-4666.

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.

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.

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