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is spring, the hospital was
awarded its third straight A rating
from e Leapfrog Group, an
independent hospital watchdog group
that grades hospitals on how well
they protect patients from errors,
injuries, accidents and infections.
Aer C ratings in 2012, Cape Fear
Valley focused on making changes that
improved patient safety and care and
its grade improved steadily.
Healthgrades, a company that
provides information about physicians,
hospitals and healthcare providers, this
year named Cape Fear Valley on its
"America's 100 Best" lists for cardiac
care and for coronary intervention and
IBM Watson named the hospital as a
top 50 cardiovascular hospital.
Some grouse about long wait
times in the hospital's emergency
department, but Nagowski says those
times have improved dramatically.
At the same time, he notes, Cape
Fear Valley's emergency department
treats 140,000 people each year – a
huge number. "We have the busiest
emergency department in the state," he
said. "It's not even close."
Cape Fear Valley is also taking care
of almost 45,000 admissions a year. e
number keeps growing. "Every year,"
Nagowski said, "more and more people
are choosing us."
As CEO, Nagowski oversees it all.
But he said so many others deserve
the credit, from the hospital's board of
directors to the physicians and nurses
who staff the system to everyone else
who works there.
He said one of the things he's most
proud of is Cape Fear Valley being
named the best place to work in the
area in the annual "Reader's Choice"
survey by e Fayetteville Observer.
"It's the employees who vote," he
said. "I can't buy that award. So I'm
most proud of that. When you walk the
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