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CVMC Trustees Request the Reorganization of Catawba Valley Medical Group | Print |
FOR RELEASE:
September 6, 2011 

 

Catawba Valley Medical Center Trustees Request the Reorganization of Catawba Valley Medical Group
 


HICKORY, NC –Catawba Valley Medical Center’s Board of Trustees requests the reorganization of Catawba Valley Medical Group in order to remove the Group from Joint Commission accreditation. The change would allow the Group to more efficiently and effectively provide medical services to the community. The Trustees recommend approval of the resolution authorizing the organization of Catawba Valley Medical Group, Inc., and the transfer of certain operations of the medical clinics to that entity. The request will be put forward to the Catawba County Board of Commissioners at the September 12 meeting. There are several reasons for removing the Medical Group from Joint Commission, including:      

 

  • Increased Revenue: reorganization will allow the practices access to better reimbursement rates and allow for full participation in the Patient-Center Medical Home Standards program 
  • Increased Productivity: less required time spent on insurance reimbursements and Joint Commission requirements will provide more productive use of staff time 
  • Decreased Expenses: no accreditation cost for registering with Joint Commission, roughly saving $13,500 for the reduction in surveyor time; immeasurable cost savings associated with staff at the hospital in its decision-making process regarding changes or monitoring for Joint Commission purposes; elimination of a battery Joint Commission-required competency testing of providers that perform these services every day with the resulting expense and frustration for providers 
  • Improved Opportunities for Growth: better recruitment opportunities without strategic disadvantage of being covered by Joint Commission 
  • Enhanced Quality: the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services define quality in the group setting using their Patient-Centered Medical Home and Electronic Medical Record Meaningful Usage requirements

Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C., is the region’s largest not-for-profit, public healthcare system and serves the community without direct funding from taxes. CVMC provides and promotes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of the public in addition to serving as a center for health education, wellness services, preventive medicine and acute care. CVMC has received three Magnet designations from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and has been recognized for providing “An Outstanding Inpatient Experience” for a fourth consecutive year by J.D. Power and Associates. For more information, please visit www.catawbavalleymedical.org.


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Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbarics Names Program Director | Print |
Catawba Valley Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbarics at Catawba Valley Medical Center Names Program Director
Center specializing in chronic wounds scheduled to open in early November
 
HICKORY, NC –Catawba Valley Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbarics at Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C., has named Richard Taylor as Program Director. Prior to being named as program director, Taylor served for over three years at Health Care Solutions as a medical equipment and testing representative.
 
Created in partnership with National Healing Corporation, one of the nation's largest wound care management companies, Catawba Valley Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbarics, located at 1501 Tate Medical Commons, Suite 105, is scheduled to open in early November. The center will specialize in the treatment of chronic wounds and non-responsive conditions and offer hospital-based outpatient wound care as well as disease management and diabetes care.
 
Taylor brings to the position 16 years of scientific and medical marketing experience and will be responsible for all aspects of the center’s operations including ensuring quality patient care, recruiting and hiring, compliance with federal and state guidelines, budgeting and fiscal policies, as well as marketing and sales.
 
A Hickory resident, Taylor received a Bachelor of Science degree from Francis Marion College in Florence, S.C. and a Master of Science in biology from Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C. The Catawba Valley Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbarics will offer highly advanced treatments
including hyperbaric oxygen therapy, negative pressure wound therapy, bio-engineered skin substitutes, biological and biosynthetic dressings and growth factor therapies. For more information, call the Catawba Valley Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbarics at 828/485-0924.
 
About National Healing Corporation
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., National Healing Corporation provides management services and the latest technology and expertise in wound healing to its client hospitals to establish quality wound healing programs. The Joint Commission has awarded National Healing Disease-Specific Care Certification for wound care. Committed to health care compliance and best practice medicine, National Healing emphasizes these priorities in its extensive clinical and business training programs. The privately-held company accounts for approximately 30 percent of all wound centers in the United States. For more information, please visit www.nationalhealing.com.
 
About Catawba Valley Medical Center
Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C., is the region’s largest not-for-profit, public healthcare system and serves the community without direct funding from taxes. CVMC provides and promotes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of the public in addition to serving as a center for health education, wellness services, preventive medicine and acute care. CVMC has received three Magnet designations from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and has been recognized for providing “An Outstanding Inpatient Experience” for a fourth consecutive year by J.D. Power and Associates. For more information, please visit www.catawbavalleymedical.org.
 
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National Rehabilitation Awareness Celebration Week | Print |

Catawba Valley Medical Center Recognizes National Rehabilitation Awareness Celebration Week

HICKORY, NC –This year, National Rehabilitation Awareness Celebration Week is September 18-

24. Rehabilitation is a medical specialty which helps restore people affected by potentially disabling disease or

traumatic injury to good health and functional, productive lives and also helps minimize physical and

cognitive disabilities.


Catawba Valley Medical Center’s (CVMC) CARF accredited Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit will be

celebrating this week by holding its annual Rehabilitation Reunion September 20, 2011 at 6p.m. in the AHEC

112 room on CVMC’s campus. The event welcomes back previous rehab patients and their families to

celebrate their recovery and life since their inpatient rehabilitation experience.


CVMC’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Department is a 10-bed unit that offers an interdisciplinary team

approach to care provided by a medical director specialized in rehabilitation, rehabilitation nurses, physical

occupational and recreational therapists, speech-language pathologists, case managers and other professionals

as consulted.


Catawba Valley Medical Center is the first facility in the southeast to offer Tibion Bionic leg treatment

interventions in its Physical Therapy department. The Speech-Language Pathology department offers new

assessment and treatment technology with the Digital Swallowing Workstation. CVMC also offers monthly

community Stroke Support Group meetings to support stroke survivors and their families during their

recovery after their inpatient rehabilitation. CVMC’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit has an 89.45 percent

discharge to the community, and 98.5 percent of patients report satisfaction with their rehab stay during

follow-up calls. CVMC scored 4.99 out of 5, rating that patients would recommend CVMC to a friend or

family member.


For more information regarding CVMC’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit, contact Mimi Stachowski,

Director, at 828/326-3248 or Leslie Williamson, Admission Liaison, at 828/326-3100. For more information

about the community Stroke Support Group, contact Heather Bissell at 828/326-3046.


Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C., is the region’s largest not-for-profit, public

healthcare system and serves the community without direct funding from taxes. CVMC provides and

promotes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of the public in addition to serving as a center

for health education, wellness services, preventive medicine and acute care. In addition to CARF

accreditation, CVMC has received three Magnet designations from the American Nurses Credentialing Center

and has been recognized for providing “An Outstanding Inpatient Experience” for a fourth consecutive year

by J.D. Power and Associates. For more information, please visit www.catawbavalleymedical.org.


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CVMC Recognizes September 2011 CARE Employee | Print |

Catawba Valley Medical Center Recognizes September 2011 CARE Employee
 
HICKORY, NC – Catawba Valley Medical Center recognized Sia Vang, Registrar in the Registration Department, as the September 2011 CARE employee. 
 
As a Registrar, it is Sia’s job to obtain, document and process demographic and billing information from patients and their representatives upon their arrival. She computes, collects, controls and documents payments due immediately. Following is a remark offered in nominating Sia: “Sia is always pleasant, nice and willing to do more than her job requires.” Congratulations, Sia!
 
Catawba Valley Medical Center’s CARE employee, nominated monthly by employees and guests, embodies Courtesy, Attitude, Respect and Enthusiasm for commitment to maintaining a positive guest relations atmosphere while demonstrating a sincere compassion and concern for patients and fellow staff members.
 
Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C. is the region’s largest not-for-profit, public healthcare system and serves the community without direct funding from taxes. CVMC provides and promotes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of the public in addition to serving as a center for health education, wellness services, preventive medicine and acute care. CVMC has received three Magnet designations from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and has been recognized for providing “An Outstanding Inpatient Experience” for a fourth consecutive year by J.D. Power and Associates. For more information, please visit www.catawbavalleymedical.org.
 
Catawba Valley Psychiatric Services Welcomes New Clinicians | Print |
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August 24, 2011  
 
Catawba Valley Psychiatric Services Welcomes New Clinicians  
 

HICKORY, NC—Catawba Valley Psychiatric Services welcomes two psychiatrists, Dr. David Branyon, M.D., and Dr. Marie Sprague, D.O. These doctors join a team of licensed clinical social workers therapists and technicians, as well as Jill Lowery and Linda Scott, nurse practitioners. Dr. Branyon and Dr. Sprague have already begun practicing at Catawba Valley Psychiatric Services.

Dr. David Branyon, M.D., obtained his medical degree from the University of Alabama and completed his general and child residencies at the Universities of Kentucky and UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Branyon is board certified in Child/Adolescent and General Adult psychiatry and is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He has lived in this area for 22 years with his wife, and has two grown children. Dr. Branyon has practiced in the North Carolina public mental health system for the past14 years. He will be providing services in the outpatient clinic, and is now accepting new adolescent and adult patients.

Dr. Marie Sprague, D.O. obtained her Doctor of Osteopathy from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her residencies in the combined UTHSC-San Antonio/Wilford Hall Medical Center program. Dr. Sprague recently served in the army. She is board certified in General Adult psychiatry, and is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Sprague lives in the area with her husband and their two daughters. She serves as a psychiatric hospitalist and does not practice in the outpatient department.

Jill Lowery, PMHNP-PC, obtained a dual Master's Degree in the Adult Health/Clinical Nurse Specialty track at UNC-Charlotte, and a second Master's Degree in the Psychiatry/Mental Health track at the Medical University of South Carolina at Charleston. She holds national certifications in both fields. She has worked in mental health inpatient and outpatient settings across both North and South Carolina for the past 14 years, the last six years as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. She is currently living in the Hickory area and serves in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

We are proud to have these clinicians as members of our staff. Catawba Valley Psychiatric Services is located at 1120 Fairgrove Church Rd., Suite 12. To schedule an appointment, please call 828/326-2828.

Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C., is the region's largest not-for-profit, public healthcare system and serves the community without direct funding from taxes. CVMC provides and promotes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of the public in addition to serving as a center for health education, wellness services, preventive medicine and acute care. CVMC has received three Magnet designations from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and has been recognized for providing "An Outstanding Inpatient Experience" for a fourth consecutive year by J.D. Power and Associates. For more information, please visit www.catawbavalleymedical.org.

 
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