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for your safety continued for your safe Preventing Falls Preventing Falls Preventing Infection Preventing Infection You may find it difficult to get You out may of bed find or it difficult to get out Practicing of bed or good hand hygiene Practicing is the single good most hand hygie you may be unsteady on your you feet may while be you unsteady on your feet important while you thing you can do to important stop the thing spread you of can do are with us. Our staff is committed are with to helping us. Our staff is committed infection. to helping While you are a patient infection. wash While your you are a p you take precautions to prevent you a take fall precautions while in to prevent a hands fall while frequently in or use the convenient hands frequently foam or use the the hospital. Here is how you the can hospital. help. Here is how you can hands help. rub that is located in every hands room. rub that is located in • For your precaution, if you are • For asked your precaution, to if you are asked to Proper hand hygiene is a team Proper effort hand hygiene is a tea get up only with the assistance get of up a only staff with the assistance of a staff everyone’s responsibility. Anyone everyone’s caring responsibility. for you An member, please wait for that member, assistance. please wait for that assistance. should clean their hands, as well should as your clean visitors. their hands, If as you do not see the doctor, nurse you or do other not see the doctor, n • Check to make sure that your • Check call button, to make sure that your call button, healthcare provider clean their healthcare hands with provider soap clean th telephone and any other personal telephone items and areany other personal items are and water or use the foam hand rub water when or use the foam h within your reach. within your reach. entering your room to provide entering care remember… your room to provid “It Is OK To Ask” someone to clean “It Is OK their To hands. Ask” someone to • Ask the staff to lower your bed • Ask to the the staff lowest to lower your bed to the lowest On admission you will receive On information admission on you our will receiv position to make it easier for position you when to make it easier for you when “It Is OK To Ask” campaign. A “It brief Is OK educational To Ask” campaign. A getting up. getting up. video is also available on the video education is also channel. available on the • You may feel dizzy or have • a You lightheaded may feel dizzy or have a lightheaded feeling when you stand up quickly feeling from when a you stand up quickly Some from patients a are placed in Some isolation patients rooms are placed in lying or sitting position. This occurs lying or when sitting position. This occurs because whenof their illnesses. A precaution because of holder their illnesses. will A there is significant change in there your blood is significant change in your be on blood your room door that includes be on your gowns, room door that i pressure or pulse. It sometimes pressure happens or pulse. It sometimes gloves happens and masks as well as precautionary gloves and masks signs. as well as when you are dehydrated or when taking you certain are dehydrated or taking We want certain you to understand that We want these you measures to understand types of medication. We suggest: types of medication. We suggest: protect you and others against protect possible you and others aga infections. Your nurse will explain infections. the necessary Your nurse will exp 1. Before getting up, sit at the 1. edge Before of getting the up, sit at the procedures edge of the to you and your procedures family should to you you and your bed for a few minutes, then stand bed for upa few minutes, then require stand up isolation. require isolation. slowly. slowly. 2. If you do feel lightheaded 2. or If dizzy, you do tellfeel lightheaded or Please dizzy, welcome tell your family and Please friends welcome to visit your family your doctor or nurse, and ask your for assistance doctor or nurse, and ask during for assistance your stay, but restrict visiting during when your stay, they but restrict when getting up by using your when bedside getting up by using your are bedside not feeling well. A visitor with are not a simple feeling cold, well. A visitor call bell. call bell. cough or rash can easily spread cough infections or rash to can you easily spr and other patients. and other patients. 3. Call for assistance when you 3. Call need for help assistance when you need help with toileting. with toileting. • Make sure to wear nonskid • footwear Make sure when to wear nonskid footwear when getting out of bed. getting out of bed. • Check to make sure that your • Check walking to make path sure that your walking path is clear of any obstacles and is that clear a light of any is obstacles and that a light is on so that you can see where on you so that are going. you can see where you are going. • Take your time and get your • Take balance your before time and get your balance before you move about; use handrails you when move about; use handrails when available. available. HARRINGTON HOSPITAL HARRINGTON HOSPITAL 14 14
Services Available Services Available To You To You Care system The Harrington offers you HealthCare a wide array system of medical offers you services, a wide some array within of medical Harrington services, Hospital some within Harrington Hospital throughout and others region, at facilities including throughout a new freestanding the region, including cancer treatment a new freestanding center on cancer our treatment center on our ical office hospital buildings campus, housing medical primary office care buildings and specialty housing physicians primary care and and other specialty medical physicians and other medical prehensive services, outpatient and our facility, comprehensive Harrington outpatient HealthCare facility, at Hubbard, Harrington also HealthCare known as our at Hubbard, also known as our 40 Thompson Webster Road, campus, Webster. at 340 Thompson Road, Webster. re listed A few below. of our For services more information, are listed below. call our For main more number, information, 508-765-9771, call our go main to number, 508-765-9771, go to al.org or www.harringtonhospital.org dial the number next the or offering. dial the number If you are next looking to the for offering. a physician If you to are meet looking for a physician to meet ll 508-765-3145. your needs, please call 508-765-3145. re* Ambulatory Care* Intensive Coronary Care Intensive Unit Coronary Care Unit Audiology Laboratory*………………......508-764-3060 Laboratory*………………......508-764-3060 — Webster Campus.…...............508-949-8613 — Webster Campus.…...............508-949-8613 nt Center...508-764-2400 Cancer Treatment Center...508-764-2400 cology Surgeons • Specialty Oncology Surgeons Maternity Maternity s/Medical Oncology • Blood Services/Medical Oncology Nutritional Education and Nutritional Counseling Education and Counseling ment • Pain Management rapy • Radiation Therapy Orthopedic Surgery Orthopedic Surgery rdiopulmonary* Cardiology/Cardiopulmonary* Obstetrics/Gynecology Obstetrics/Gynecology ging*……….508-765-3030 Diagnostic Imaging*……….508-765-3030 Pain Management Pain Management us…...............508-909-8668 -— Webster Campus…...............508-909-8668 Pediatrics Pediatrics ography • Digital Mammography • MRI Outpatient Rehabilitation*...508-764-3120 Outpatient Rehabilitation*...508-764-3120 metry • Bone Densitometry — Webster Campus…................508-949-9124 — Webster Campus…................508-949-9124 • X-Ray • Physical Therapy • Physical Therapy • Radiology • Occupational Therapy • Occupational Therapy rlton…………….508-248-4446 — MRI at Charlton…………….508-248-4446 • Speech Therapy • Speech Therapy rtment……508-765-3050 Education Department……508-765-3050 Respiratory Therapy Respiratory Therapy reach Education • Diabetes and Support Outreach Education and Support Sleep Lab at Webster.….....508-949-8960 Sleep Lab at Webster.….....508-949-8960 abilitation • Cardiac Rehabilitation • CPR training Surgery Surgery ucation • Child Birth Education aining • Babysitting Training Women’s Center…………....508-765-3079 Women’s Center…………....508-765-3079 • Digital Mammography • Digital Mammography re Center* Emergency Care Center* • Ultrasound • Ultrasound • Urogynecology • Urogynecology h Services*....508-765-9167 Behavioral Health Services*....508-765-9167 • Breast Biopsies • Breast Biopsies l health and psychiatry • Adult mental health and psychiatry • Bladder Services • Bladder Services mental health• Child, family mental health ergency Services • Psychiatric Emergency Services Wound Care with Hyperbaric Wound Care with Hyperbaric buse • Substance abuse Oxygen Chambers Oxygen Chambers ssation • Tobacco Cessation — Charlton..............…............508-248-6780 — Charlton..............…............508-248-6780 , Infants and • Children) WIC (Women, Infants and Children) espite) • Viewpoint (Respite) *Denotes services also available at our Webster campus, Harrington 15 *Denotes services also available at our Webster campus, Harrington HealthCare at Hubbard, 340 Thompson HealthCare Road, Webster at Hubbard, 340 Thompson Road, Webster 15
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Page 4 and 5: HARRINGTON HOSPITAL From the Office
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Page 10 and 11: For Family and Friends of treatment
Page 12 and 13: Medication For Your Access to Safet
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Page 18 and 19: Helping You Relieve Your Pain A pat
Page 20 and 21: Access to Care Respect and Dignity
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Page 24 and 25: Your Role In Your Care: What You, a
Page 26 and 27: Derechos del Paciente Para su conve
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