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Facility Manager
DEANNE AVERY
CHC, EDAC, Director, capital projects, planning, design and
construction, UNC Health Blue Ridge (Morganton, N.C.)
D
EANNE AVERY HAS spent her 20-year
career at UNC Health Blue Ridge, a
rural community healthcare system
delivering services across a threecounty
region of Western North
Carolina. In 2009, she became director of capital
projects, where she's responsible for overseeing
all design and construction projects across UNC
Health Blue Ridge's two hospital campuses in
Morganton and Valdese, N.C.-a role that keeps
her busy.
Specifically, she managed the design and construction
of more than $175 million in master
planning projects for the two campuses, including
a new cancer center addition that opened in
August 2023 on the Valdese campus and a new
six-story, 220,000-square-foot bed tower with
emergency department and ICU patient unit, expected
to open this fall on the Morganton campus.
Wearing multiple hats, Deanne not only oversees
design and construction but also serves as
equipment planner and liaison to the system's
information technology group, as well as provides
construction support for facilities maintenance
and recommendations to the hospital's
senior leadership and board.
She has a vast knowledge of life safety and construction
that is invaluable. Bringing the Morganton
project through the pandemic, she overcame
escalation and budget challenges, leading
the design and construction team through target
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UNC Health Blue Ridge Morganton bed tower
value design efforts to help mitigate construction
industry increases. She also served as the
liaison between UNC Health Blue Ridge and the
Joint Commission, preparing for and coordinating
with them during their inspections.
Growing up in Morganton and with a deep
connection and understanding of the community,
she has taken measures to ensure both
projects are truly integrated with the community,
leading tours for numerous groups, local
government, and staff members to ensure the
community's and employees' voices were heard
in the design of the new spaces. Additionally, she
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helped introduce new, modern processes and
workflows to increase staff efficiency while improving
the patient experience. For example, the
new ICU unit in the Morganton bed tower will
utilize a decentralized nursing model with staff
alcoves outside of the patient rooms, and Avery
was key in educating nurses on why this change
from the organization's previous centralized
model will benefi t patient care.
Through her efforts, Avery is helping transform
and shape these rural campuses, growing
care capacities and services while having a positive
impact on the communities they serve.
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