BECKLEY, WV (WOAY) – Raleigh General Hospital will celebrate its healthcare professionals and all they do to contribute to the community at 6 pm on Feb. 28 at Black Knight Country Club.
Dedicated leader Carolyn Fields, who launched the hospital’s Advance Wound Care Center, will be honored for her retirement.
They couldn’t be more appreciative of their AWC and Hyperbaric Medicine Center’s recognition for Clinical Excellence in Patient Satisfaction and Wound Healing Rates, along with the National Award for Excellence in Wound Healing.
Both awards are testaments to the center’s high patient satisfaction and healing rates.
Med-Surg Physician Group: for its commitment to healthcare service regardless of race, gender, ability to pay, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status.
And the RGH Trauma Department for the dedication of its surgeons and staff in caring for trauma patients.
“We’ve achieved so many awards over the past eight years we’ve had this program here. It’s been one of the best wound care centers in the country. We’re extremely proud of the Wound Care Center,” said General/Trauma Surgeon/Wound Care Expert Dr. Olu Sangodeyi. There have been many patients that have had their wound healed.”
Also, the director of the trauma program at Raleigh General, where they take care of traumatized patients.
“I’m extremely proud of that department for everything they are doing for the community. The staff is very active and engaged, and we treat ourselves like family,” Sangodeyi said, adding that they have achieved so much. “It’s not just one member; it’s a team effort.”
From the Clinical Excellence Award to the Center of Distinction Award…
Clinical Nurse Manager Jordan Gray says that means Raleigh General Hospital’s Wound Care Center is getting their patients in, getting them healed, and they are staying healed so they can enjoy the rest of their lives.
The center has a comprehensive heal rate above 85 percent, which is a big accomplishment.
According to Gray, if you are engaged with your patients, then they are engaged with you and want to be healed.
To have this healthcare community means so much.
“Whenever their wounds are healed, they get to come and ring this bell. Sometimes, we get to take pictures or videos with our patients. And it’s just very special because those patients remember that,” said the clinical nurse manager.
She said it’s nice to go out and celebrate with RGH as a whole and with Healogics and the whole crew.
“Because when we’re here, we’re working and it’s in and out constantly,” Gray said. “So to be able to award ourselves tomorrow with dinner and dancing is super nice.”
