Posted July 19, 2011 ¬ 10:39 am.Heather Monackey
We are pleased to announce that WakeMed has been recognized as high-performing in ten of 16 different specialties by U.S. News & World Report.
WakeMed’s ten high-performing categories include:
Cardiology & Heart Surgery
Diabetes & Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
Geriatrics
Gynecology
Nephrology
Neurology & Neurosurgery
Orthopedics
Pulmonology
Urology
“WakeMed offers the highest level of care available in Wake County in many different specialty areas, including critical, neonatal, neuroscience, cardiology and trauma [...]
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Posted November 16, 2010 ¬ 3:47 pm.Heather Monackey
WakeMed Raleigh Campus and Cary Hospital are the first hospitals in North Carolina to receive full Heart Failure Accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers.
To achieve SCPC Heart Failure Accreditation, WakeMed met or exceeded ten criteria, including quality measures that improve the process of care for heart failure patients, integration with emergency medical services, [...]
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Posted June 17, 2010 ¬ 3:40 pm.Heather Monackey
This video posted today on the North Carolina Justice Center’s blog, the Progressive Pulse, shows Dr. Atkinson and Adam Searing, director of the North Carolina Justice Center’s Health Access Coalition, talking healthcare reform.
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Posted December 15, 2009 ¬ 10:01 am.Dr. Bill Atkinson
In 1992 I was contacted by the editor of the Accent II, Aurora, Colorado’s weekly magazine inserted into the daily paper. At the time, I was serving as the executive director of Humana Hospital Aurora. The topic was health care reform. This same article could be published today with very few tweaks and would be [...]
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Posted September 23, 2009 ¬ 7:42 am.Dr. Bill Atkinson
Posted August 28, 2009 ¬ 8:40 am.Dr. Bill Atkinson
In the last few months, I’ve been getting this question a lot. To answer it simply, WakeMed can’t afford to not be involved. Here’s a more extensive explanation.
The video is embedded from YouTube, and may not be visible from within the hospital.
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Posted August 24, 2009 ¬ 3:24 pm.Dr. Bill Atkinson
This blog is meant to be an outlet for health care professionals and employees of WakeMed to discuss important issues. We are pleased to welcome commentary from our first guest blogger, Laura Aiken, community health specialist with WakeMed and director of Advocates for Health in Action (AHA). Learn more about AHA by visiting their Web [...]
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Posted July 23, 2009 ¬ 1:26 pm.Dr. Bill Atkinson
In health care we have an acronym for everything. I’m sure you have heard HIPAA, EMR, ICU, etc. I’ve created an acronym of my own – ACQ or Access, Cost and Quality. In my mind, these are the three fundamental issues that have to be addressed when working to reform today’s national health care system [...]
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