CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
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52 | September/October 2019 But for those who can't make it to a seminar, the program has online presentations and DVDs it can loan. Barriage and Jennifer Fisher, her counterpart at Hoke Hospital, also take phone calls from patients. Fisher said there's so much information to take in that – and so much pain involved in recovery – that it helps to throw a little fun into the mix. e two hospitals do that by using actual racing themes – NASCAR for Cape Fear Valley Medical Center and horse-racing for Hoke Hospital. e hallways of the orthopedic units where joint-replacement patients recover aer surgery are marked every 50 feet with signs that patients can use to judge how far they've walked. eir progress is then recorded on a representation of a racetrack, with magnetic racecars used to indicate the progress of patients in Fayetteville and horses used for patients in Hoke County. eir goal is to go 1,000 feet – a complete revolution around the racetrack. On a recent Wednesday, 73-year-old Linda Brummett was slowly but surely maneuvering along the racetrack/hallway The Race to Recovery team at Hoke Hospital uses a horse racing theme to help patients through the recovery process. The Race to Recovery team at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center makes sure patients get all of the information they need. Linda Brummett slowly but surely maneuvers along the racetrack/ hallway at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center on her new knee. Cape Fear Valley is committed to helping patients succeed after they undergo knee or hip replacements at its hospitals in Fayetteville and Hoke County. Towards that goal, the health system relies on a program called Race to Recovery, which uses best-care procedures including recovery and rehab areas and specially trained staff who are dedicated to this purpose.