Surgery
Social Determinants
Service Lines
BRMG
Access to Care
100

A freestanding surgery center

What is an ambulatory surgery center?

100

Patient comes to ED with severe dehydration, after evaluation you discover the patient has no air conditioning and needs one...You can look into this funding resource to buy them one.

What is the Chaplain's Fund?

100

How many babies are delivered at Blue Ridge each year? 

800-1000

100

Practice that focuses on prevention, diagnosis and treatment, education and counseling

What is primary care?

100

Number of BRMG Practices

What is 42?

200

This disease can be caused by long standing gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)

What is Barrett’s Esophagus

(surgical procedure can be done at CHS-BR to help correct)

200

Name an inexpensive community service you could recommend to a recently hospitalized home-bound patient who requires help with cooking.

What is Meals on Wheels? 

200

Where an injured athlete would go for a weekend evaluation 

What is the Sports Injury Clinic?

200

Yearly appointment with primary care provider to create or update a personalized prevention plan 

What is an annual wellness visit?

200

System that went live in June 2019 that makes it easy and convenient to schedule appointments with your BRMG primary care physicians

What is online scheduling?

300

An operation performed on the abdomen or pelvis through small incisions with the aid of a camera

What is laparoscopic surgery?

300

Resource that helps multiple community partners locate the available local resources in the community through a website (medicine, health centers, food gardens, etc.). 

What is Aunt Bertha? 

300

The age everyone needs to have a screening colonoscopy 

What is 50?

300

A family member approaches you and thinks their parent has dementia; who would you refer them to?

What is a geriatrician (BRMG Geriatrics)?

300

Patient has the following symptoms and needs this level of care...Cough with runny nose

What is urgent care?

400

Name 1 orthopedic approach Blue Ridge has recently started offering

What is Robotic Assisted Spinal Surgery? What is the anterior hip approach?

400

Assessment required by the IRS to evaluate, identify and prioritize the top issues of the community (poverty, obesity, mental health issues, drug addition, diabetes, etc.)

What is a Community Health Needs Assessment?

400

A newborn presents with a critical illness after delivery... this is the unit they would be admitted to.

What is the Neonatal ICU (NICU)

400

Patient has symptoms of snoring - they can get an evaluation here...

What is Blue Ridge Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine?

400

Sick today, seen today - where I can be seen in Valdese same day

What is Valdese Express Care?

500

Name 1 new procedure Blue Ridge has started offering in the last year

Fecal Microbiota Transplant for C.Diff Patients

Urolift 


500

Local partner to help provide transportation around Burke County 

What is the Greenway?

500

Process to evaluate and understand a families risk of an inherited medical condition (such as BRCA gene testing)

What is genetic counseling?

500

Number of Women's Health Group locations

What is 4?

500

New service offered Fall 2019 on wheels

What is a mobile mammography bus?

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