Surgery
A freestanding surgery center
What is an ambulatory surgery center?
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?
How many babies are delivered at Blue Ridge each year?
800-1000
Practice that focuses on prevention, diagnosis and treatment, education and counseling
What is primary care?
Number of BRMG Practices
What is 42?
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)
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?
Where an injured athlete would go for a weekend evaluation
What is the Sports Injury Clinic?
Yearly appointment with primary care provider to create or update a personalized prevention plan
What is an annual wellness visit?
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?
An operation performed on the abdomen or pelvis through small incisions with the aid of a camera
What is laparoscopic surgery?
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?
The age everyone needs to have a screening colonoscopy
What is 50?
A family member approaches you and thinks their parent has dementia; who would you refer them to?
What is a geriatrician (BRMG Geriatrics)?
Patient has the following symptoms and needs this level of care...Cough with runny nose
What is urgent care?
Name 1 orthopedic approach Blue Ridge has recently started offering
What is Robotic Assisted Spinal Surgery? What is the anterior hip approach?
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?
A newborn presents with a critical illness after delivery... this is the unit they would be admitted to.
What is the Neonatal ICU (NICU)
Patient has symptoms of snoring - they can get an evaluation here...
What is Blue Ridge Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine?
Sick today, seen today - where I can be seen in Valdese same day
What is Valdese Express Care?
Name 1 new procedure Blue Ridge has started offering in the last year
Fecal Microbiota Transplant for C.Diff Patients
Urolift
Local partner to help provide transportation around Burke County
What is the Greenway?
Process to evaluate and understand a families risk of an inherited medical condition (such as BRCA gene testing)
What is genetic counseling?
Number of Women's Health Group locations
What is 4?
New service offered Fall 2019 on wheels
What is a mobile mammography bus?