Agency Overview: Cape

Fear Valley Hospital

By: Josaphina Tate
 Website
http://www.capefearvalley.com/home/index.html
 Agency Mission
The Mission: Exceptional Healthcare for Every Patient

At Cape Fear Valley Health System, our goal is to improve the quality of
every life we touch. To achieve that, our Fayetteville doctors, surgeons and
staff are committed to excellence in every aspect of the healthcare process.
Our values of patient-centeredness, integrity, innovation, teamwork, diversity
and accountability help us create a better experience for every patient, every
time.
 Core Value and Ethics
We Are Committed To Excellence Through:
Patient-Centeredness: Putting our patients interests first, providing unsurpassed service, with an emphasis
on safety and quality outcomes.
Integrity: All that we say and do is founded in honesty, openness and respect.
Cultural Diversity: Respecting our communitys multicultural diversity in our daily operations and practices.
Innovation: Encouraging creativity, embracing change, continual learning and personal empowerment.
Teamwork: Embracing a variety of opinions and being mutually supportive in achieving our vision.
Accountability: To our community, our organization and to each other for our individual and organizational
performance and behaviors.
 History
The cornerstone of Cape Fear Valley Hospital was laid in 1954, and the hospital opened in 1956
as a 200-bed county hospital. Today, the medical center is a robust regional medical center located
in the growing metropolitan city of Fayetteville, N.C. (population 200,000) in Cumberland
County (population 300,000).

Cape Fear Valley Medical Center specializes in heart care, cancer treatment and surgical services.
We have a full-service Family Birth Center as well as a Level-III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
(NICU) to care for the tiniest members of our community.

A half-century after its opening day, Cape Fear Valley Medical Center is the healthcare provider
of choice for thousands of families in the Cape Fear region.
 Need & future direction for this agency.
The need for this agency is to implement better drug screening on babies.
Once the mother comes out positive for substance abuse, it is obligated to
send a Mec Stat or Cord Stat immediately to test infant for that drug. In
order to implement this in the hospital is to make an flyer and holding an
meeting with units that handle all involvement in mother and baby floors
providing information on immediately drug screening these babies and the
importance of drug screening these infants. This will provide safe discharges
for the newborns.
 Competencies and Practice Behavior
Competencies: 1, 4, 5
Practice Behaviors: 1.1, 1.3, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1
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