How WakeMed Home Health helped Cleola Davis manage her mother’s health The right home health team and technology have an unexpected benefit: They boost the well-being of family members as well as patients. Cleola Davis, the daughter of 94-year-old Sarah, was overjoyed to learn this. After a fall, Sarah, who also suffered from heart failure, […]
All WakeMed facilities and services are now officially live on Epic, a comprehensive electronic medical record system. This is a big change for us, so we appreciate the patience of our patients and family members during the transition. We’re also excited to offer increased access to your health information via the WakeMed MyChart patient portal. […]
Each technology revolution brings new ergonomic concerns. In fact, this recent article in the Huffington Post brought to light the toll texting is taking on our bodies. With the help of Chris Billiar, supervisor of rehab therapy at WakeMed Physician Practices – Physical Therapy in north Raleigh, we’ve identified five easy steps to help fix […]
This October, as we observe Breast Cancer Awareness Month, WakeMed has begun offering 3D mammography at Cary Hospital. While traditional 2D screening mammography is a valuable tool in the early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer, 3D mammography has been shown to improve breast cancer detection by providing a more detailed, complete view of the breast […]
Operating on a beating heart sounds impossible but that is exactly what surgeons did when open heart surgery first became a reality in the late 1950s and early 1960s. At that time, pioneering physicians partnered with biomedical engineers to develop crude devices to exchange the oxygen and carbon dioxide in blood, bypassing the heart and […]
WakeMed’s new expansion of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) opened to patients on February 20, 2014. Not only did it add 12 new patient beds, but it marked the introduction of “single-room care” for NICU patients, which includes 27 private rooms. Single-room care allows families to spend almost unlimited time with their babies and […]
We are proud to be one of only 11 hospitals selected by the American College of Cardiology to start a program that will help keep heart failure and heart attack patients well and out of the hospital. This week, we kicked-off that new program. The Patient Navigator Program will provide cardiac patients with personalized support after discharge […]
This is a shout-out to our Mobile Critical Care team that recently competed in the CAE Cup, which is a critical care skills competition held in Seattle, Wa. during the annual Air Medical Transport Conference. The WakeMed Mobile Critical Care team of Derek Bailey, EMT-P, and Sandra Terry, RN, were one of ten teams selected […]
Ultrasound is an emerging technology for EMS providers. This week, at the EMS World Expo in New Orleans, representatives from WakeMed are teaching EMS providers to how to use ultrasound in the field. In EMS, ultrasound can help providers in determining the best hospital to treat acutely ill patients. “Hospital destination patterns may be different […]
The Internet is the third most popular way people get emergency information. With more than 80 percent of adult online users connected to at least one or more social media platforms, emergency management agencies are incorporating social media into their response strategies. Social Media & Emergency Preparedness WakeMed boasts several different social media profiles. The following are the […]
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