Mission Hospital

Advanced Technology and Treatment Approaches

As the region's only tertiary care provider, Mission continues to introduce new treatment approaches and new ways to use technology to benefit patients. As a result, residents of Western North Carolina have access to the kind of advanced-level care usually found only in major teaching hospitals.

• Focus on hip fractures - Mission's orthopedics service line established a new Geriatric Hip Fracture program to enhance outcomes for patients with this devastating injury—a critical health concern impacting quality of life for seniors.
• Physician orders go electronic - Mission became one of the largest community hospitals in the nation to implement Clinical Provider Order Entry (CPOE). By computerizing the orders of physicians and providers, this process enhances both patient care and safety.
• Intensive heart care - A new computerized system was implemented in Mission's Cardiovascular Intensive Care and Recovery Units to improve monitoring of patients' blood sugar levels. Spikes in blood sugar are common in recovering heart surgery patients, and left untreated, can cause complications. The new Endotool software-based system recommends precise, patient-specific dosages of medication to keep blood sugar at healthy levels.
• Training diabetes nurses - Nearly four dozen registered nurses from 18 different nursing specialty units at Mission graduated from an intensive course in caring for patients with diabetes. They now serve as an on-call resource to staff treating diabetic patients.

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