the Hospital of Today - Olympic Medical Center

SUMMER 2010
Living Well
An Inside Look at
the Hospital
of Today
Seen here: Dr. Jennifer Swanson, Dr. Ianir Divinsky,
Dr. Eric Swanson, Dr. Ed Gacek, Dr. Carlos Palacio,
Dr. Mark Fischer and Dr. Paul Pederson.
Not pictured: Dr. Rob Gipe, Dr. Wade Austin
and Dr. Rebecca Corley.
Hospitalists
at Your Service

FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR
CONTENTS
Dear Friends,
We’re committed to providing you with
the best possible health care. That isn’t just
a statement – it’s our mission, and it’s at the
heart of everything we do.
Since the opening of what was then Olympic
Memorial Hospital in 1951, Olympic Medical
Center has dedicated our time and talents
toward providing excellence in health care
to residents of the Olympic Peninsula. Our
commitment to excellence is demonstrated throughout the
hospital – in our dedication to invest in the latest advancements
in technology and evidence-based techniques, the expertise of
our physicians and staff, and the variety of services we provide
to meet the needs of our community.
In this issue of Living Well, you can read about some of our
investments and the multitude of services we offer: From
a hospitalist program dedicated to around-the-clock care
(pages 4 and 5), advancements in anesthesia (page 8) and
pain management in obstetrics (page 9) to electronic medical
records designed to expedite your patient experience and
enhance safety (page 10).
Improvements in technology and technique are important
parts of providing health care. Yet a medical staff committed
to excellence is the single-most important part of our mission.
Nowhere is this commitment more visible than in Dr. Jim Mowry
and Dr. Bob Watkins, board-certified orthopedic surgeons.
On pages 6 and 7, you can read about their outstanding
dedication to providing trauma services to our community. The
Washington Rural Health Association recently recognized the
physicians’ efforts, naming them 2010 Outstanding Rural Health
Practitioners. Please join us in thanking these physicians!
3 FMPA Takes It Downtown
Help for Haiti
4 What Is a Hospitalist?
6 Thanking Our Hospital Heroes
8 On the Forefront of
Advanced Anesthesia
9 Great Options for New Moms
10 Additional Patient Safety – EMRs
Short Stay Unit at Olympic
Medical Center
Eric Lewis
ADMINISTRATOR
OLYMPIC MEDICAL CENTER
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Taking Steps to Better Health
Family Medicine of Port Angeles opened its new location to patients in January 2010. The Downtown Health Center is
built for efficiency and quality care.
Family Medicine of Port Angeles Takes It Downtown
F
amily Medicine of Port Angeles (FMPA) has moved to the
new Downtown Health Center, located at 240 West Front
Street in Port Angeles. FMPA is a private-practice primary care
clinic separate from Olympic Medical Center, but Olympic
Medical leases a portion of the building to provide X-ray,
physical therapy and diabetes education services.
FMPA physicians designed the Downtown Health Center
specifically to allow more efficient patient care. The clinic is
environmentally friendly and cost-effective, and it utilizes an old
City of Port Angeles storage facility that had been unused for
several years.
Olympic Medical’s Involvement
Olympic Medical is pleased to offer X-ray, physical therapy and
diabetes education in the Downtown Health Center. A person
need not be an FMPA patient to utilize the services.
In addition, due to the importance of making primary care
available in Clallam County, Olympic Medical supported FMPA
in making its move.
“We are incredibly supportive by doing what we can to ensure
Clallam County residents have access to family medicine,” says
Eric Lewis, chief executive officer, Olympic Medical. “FMPA is
taking the lead not only in our community, but in the country, by
creating new ways to provide efficient and effective primary care.”
Help for Haiti
After recognizing the medical need of people injured
after the earthquake in Haiti in early 2010, local
orthopaedic surgeon Margaret Baker, MD, spearheaded
the effort to collect medical supplies from the local
health care community.
Other participants included Olympic Medical Center’s
surgical services department, Dr. Peter Lewis, Dr. Robert
Scott, Jamestown Health Clinic, Fricks Pharmacy and the
local chapter of the American Red Cross.
Together they gathered and shipped three full pallets
worth of medical supplies, prosthetics, vitamins and
medications. Puget Sound Transfer provided a significant
discount on the shipment of the items to the heart of the
relief effort in Miami, Florida. The OMC Foundation paid
the balance of shipping costs.
Dr. Margaret Baker, orthopaedic surgeon, shows the type
of surgical supplies she donated to medical efforts in Haiti.
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(At right) Dr. Carlos Palacio is one
of 10 expert hospitalists at Olympic
Medical Center. He is also one of two
hospitalists fluent in Spanish – important
in serving our Hispanic patients.
(Below) Dr. Ianir Divinsky, seen here with
Christa Scott, RN, joined the hospitalist
team this spring.
The History
of HOSPITALISTS
Olympic Medical Center was at the
cutting edge of innovation and one of the
first rural hospitals in the U.S. to form a
hospitalist team in 2000, emphasizing the
need to improve patient safety with
24-hour in-hospital physicians.
The hospitalist subspecialty took off
nationally around 1996 when Dr. Robert
Wachter and Dr. Lee Goldman first used
the term in a New England Journal of
Medicine article. Since then, the number
of hospitalists has increased dramatically.
In 1999, shortly before Olympic Medical
started its program, about 1,500
physicians practiced as hospitalists. Today,
approximately 20,000 hospitalists practice
in the United States, and researchers
predict there will be 30,000 by the
end of 2010.
What Is a
Hospitalist?
At Olympic Medical Center, physicians known as hospitalists are in-house
24 hours a day, seven days a week to care for hospital patients.
To
better meet the needs of
hospital patients, Olympic
Medical Center developed a
dedicated hospitalist program 10 years
ago. While many may not be familiar
with the term “hospitalist,” these are
physicians who work solely in the
hospital caring for hospitalized patients.
“Over the past 15 years,
hospitalists have been the fastest-
growing subspecialty of medicine,”
says Edward Gacek, MD, hospitalist
and board-certified internist at
Olympic Medical. “Because as
hospitalists we don’t have outside
practices and are based only in the
hospital, we can devote all of our
time and attention to caring for
hospitalized patients.”
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“We anticipate and address the unique needs
of patients in a timely and compassionate manner.
Olympic Medical Center’s hospitalist team
performs daily rounds and is tasked with
carefully ordering medical tests, determining diagnoses
and creating comprehensive treatment plans for patients.”
—Mark Fischer, MD, FACP, board-certified internist and pulmonologist
at Olympic Medical
Mark Fischer, MD
An Important Role
Typically trained as internal medicine
specialists, hospitalists focus on the
management and treatment of adult
illnesses, injuries and diseases. As
internists, hospitalists are equipped to
manage whatever problem a patient
presents with – no matter how simple
or complex.
“We anticipate and address the
unique needs of patients in a timely and
compassionate manner,” says Mark Fischer,
MD, FACP, hospitalist, board-certified
internist and board-certified pulmonologist
at Olympic Medical. “Olympic Medical’s
hospitalist team performs daily rounds and
is tasked with carefully ordering medical
tests, determining diagnoses and creating
comprehensive treatment plans for patients.”
Hospitalists are knowledgeable
about each hospital department.
Quicker access to test results and
prompt follow-up care can streamline
the hospitalization and recovery
process immensely.
Coordinated Care
The hospitalist program at Olympic
Medical is integral to the quality of care
provided to patients.
“Although hospitalists do not take
the place of one’s primary care
physician, we fill his or her shoes
while you are in the hospital,”
Dr. Fischer says.
Busy rural primary care providers
are now able to devote more time
and attention to their outpatient
practices and considerable
responsibilities.
“Hospitalists continually help
bridge the gap between primary
care providers, specialists,
emergency care physicians and
Seattle-area doctors,” adds Fischer.
“We ensure patients receive the
most collaborative, comprehensive
care possible.”
Hospitalists are also available to
answer many questions or concerns a
patient’s family may have and can help
arrange follow-up services a patient
may need.
“If necessary, the hospitalist
also contacts the patient’s
primary care physician to discuss
further treatment needs and
help coordinate follow-up care,”
Dr. Gacek says. “As a care team, we
partner with your primary care
physicians and other specialists to
provide quality care from admission
through the time you go home.”
For more information about the
hospitalist program or other services
offered at Olympic Medical Center, visit
www.olympicmedical.org.
And the List Goes On…
Patients experience many benefits
from having a hospitalist manage
their care while at Olympic Medical
Center, including:
• Availability for discussion with
family members during the
patient’s hospital stay and after the
patient is discharged
• Coordinated treatment plans with
primary care physicians
• Familiarity and relationships with
key hospital staff, including
medical and surgical specialists,
discharge planners, clergy and
other employees
• Hospitalists serve on Olympic
Medical Center’s “Rapid Response
Team,” which also includes a
registered nurse and a respiratory
therapist. This emergency team is
called when a staff member thinks a
patient’s condition may be worsening
and believes urgent medical
attention is needed.
• More efficient hospital care
• Quick response when patients
need labs and tests, or when an
emergency situation arises
• Shorter hospital stays
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Thanking Our
Hospital Heroes
Thanks in large part to the efforts of orthopaedic surgeons Jim Mowry, MD, and Bob Watkins, MD,
patients can rely on Olympic Medical Center to meet their orthopaedic trauma care needs 24x7.
The Washington Rural Health
Association recently recognized Dr.
Jim Mowry and Dr. Bob Watkins
– who both came out of retirement to
provide residents of the North Olympic
Peninsula with orthopaedic trauma care
– as winners of the 2010 Rural Health
Practitioner Award.
With the Community
in Mind…
In order to be recognized as a Level
III trauma center, Olympic Medical must
meet a number of criteria – one of which
requires providing 24-hour orthopaedic
coverage in the emergency room (ER).
Essentially, without Drs. Mowry and
Watkins, Olympic Medical would not be
able to maintain its status as a Level III
trauma center.
“Being a Level III trauma center ensures
we’re able to deliver the kind of emergency
care patients need here at home, rather
than having to send them to other facilities,”
says Scott Kennedy, MD, chief medical
officer at Olympic Medical. “To help us
maintain this important status, Drs. Mowry
and Watkins have provided coverage since
June 2004. The experience they bring
to Olympic Medical allows them to see
a broad variety of patients who would
otherwise have to be transported out
of our community for care.”
Both physicians had retired from
medicine and were enjoying other
activities, travel and time spent with
family and friends. So what motivated
them to return to active roles in
practicing medicine? Read on for
some insight.
Bob Watkins, MD:
Gaining a Different Health
Care Perspective
After retiring from orthopaedic
surgery in 2000, Dr. Watkins began
taking courses at Peninsula College
in Port Angeles to pursue an interest
in information technologies (IT). He
applied and was accepted into an
unpaid internship program in the
IT department at Olympic Medical.
While it may seem that going from
orthopaedic surgery into IT services
is a drastic change, providing these
services in a hospital setting allowed
Dr. Watkins to serve as a liaison
between medical and IT staff members.
“In the process of performing my
duties, which at that time included setting
up software and wireless connections
in the ER, I saw patients with all sorts of
injuries – things we could handle here –
come in and be sent to a regional trauma
center that manages life-threatening
injuries,” says Dr. Watkins. “To get these
patients the care they needed without
leaving their community, I volunteered to
join the medical staff.”
Having been retired from orthopaedics
nearly two and a half years, Dr. Watkins
was supported by local orthopaedic
surgeons in order to pursue a
re-credentialing for certification necessary
to reenter the field. Once this process was
complete, he took ER on-call duties every
other week until Dr. Mowry joined the
medical staff almost a year later.
Dr. Bob Watkins, orthopaedic surgeon,
accepts the Rural Health Practitioner Award from
Washington State Department of Health Secretary
Mary Selecky in March 2010.
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❝“I’ve lived in this community for more than 30 years. I continue to see the same patients, their
offspring, their parents and so on, which creates special working relationships. Being able to provide
members of this community with the care they need – and being recognized for that service with
this award [2010 Rural Health Practitioner Award] is a great honor and privilege.
— Bob Watkins, MD, orthopaedic surgeon at Olympic Medical Center
Jim Mowry, MD: Back to
Work to Meet a Need
After moving from Kirkland, Wash.,
to the Port Angeles area to be closer
to his grandchildren, Dr. Mowry heard
through a family friend that there was a
sudden need for more orthopaedists at
Olympic Medical.
“Only three of five needed
orthopaedic surgeons were providing
call coverage at Olympic Medical, and
Dr. Watkins was bearing a huge
workload,” says Dr. Mowry. “I approached
the hospital and offered my services to
lessen some of that burden, but since I
had been out of practice for seven years,
the hospital wasn’t sure how to bring me
back up to speed with my certifications.”
Confident that he could deliver the
services needed at Olympic Medical,
Dr. Mowry persisted in his offer to come
on board and the hospital agreed to let
him join. Like Dr. Watkins, Dr. Mowry
had to be re-credentialed with proof of
current competence in his field, but since
he’d been out of practice several years
longer, acquiring necessary certifications
proved more difficult.
“I tried to train with my former
colleagues in Kirkland, but nothing
seemed to work,” says Dr. Mowry.
“Fortunately, when I went back to
Olympic Medical for help, Dr. Watkins
agreed to proctor me.”
Medical, the two shared on-call duties
with local orthopaedists, ensuring
around-the-clock coverage for ER
orthopaedic trauma patients.
“To ensure the continuity of care for
our patients, Dr. Watkins and I set up
what is referred to at the hospital as an
orthopaedic hospitalist program,” says
Dr. Mowry. “We feel that having only
one or two physicians in charge of a
patient’s follow-up care can really help
heighten patient comfort and yield
generally better outcomes.”
Although Dr. Mowry is currently on
medical leave, Dr. Watkins still sees
patients and has recently expanded his
practice to see referrals, in addition to
providing care for trauma patients.
“These physicians are truly heroes
in our community,” says Dr. Kennedy.
“Their commitment to ensure needed
coverage for the community while
providing important capabilities for our
local medical center goes far beyond our
ability to repay them for what they’re
doing and have already done.” “Their
commitment to our hospital and their
community goes far beyond our ability to
repay them for what they’re doing and
have already done.”
To learn more about the Washington Rural
Health Association’s Rural Health Practitioner
Award, visit www.olympicmedical.org and click
on “News & Events.”
Working as a Team
Once Dr. Mowry completed his
updating and proctored training with
Dr. Watkins and was officially brought
onto the medical staff at Olympic
Eric Lewis, Olympic Medical Center CEO, provides Dr. Jim Mowry with a
Washington Rural Health Association plaque during a board celebration for
Dr. Mowry and Dr. Bob Watkins.
❝“I was very flattered when I found out about the award. I really never expected anything like that to
happen. It’s nice to be appreciated, but truly the most rewarding part of all this is knowing that because
we offer our service, patients in our area can receive care for almost any type of injury or illness
without traveling away from home.”
— Jim Mowry, MD, orthopaedic surgeon at Olympic Medical Center
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On the Forefront of
Advanced Anesthesia
The anesthesiologist is often the most overlooked member of a surgical team. His or her role,
however, is among the most important – to keep the patient safely sedated and comfortable.
a person has surgery,
a general or specialty
“When
surgeon performs the
operation, but an anesthesiologist is also
present to make sure the patient doesn’t
feel pain,” says
Pamela Bundy, MD,
anesthesiologist at
Olympic Medical
Center. “In addition
to ensuring the
patient remains
asleep during
procedures in which
he or she is sedated,
the anesthesiologist
Pamela Bundy, MD
acts as an internist in
the operating room by monitoring the
patient’s vital signs and making sure he or
she does well throughout the procedure.”
In the past decade, several advances
have occurred in anesthesiology that
improved surgical outcomes and reduced
complications associated with anesthesia.
Olympic Medical is on the forefront of
many of these improvements, including:
➺ Pharmaceutical advances (allow
patients to wake up faster and feel
more alert after surgery) such as
the use of propofol, a medication
used in anesthesia to render patients
unconscious. Olympic Medical
anesthesiologists also use desflurane
and sevoflurane, two inhalable
general anesthetics.
➺ Ultrasound-guided nerve
blocks in procedures such as joint
replacements and arthroscopic
anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)
repairs, to give patients a jump on
beginning physical therapy and
rehabilitation by decreasing postoperative
pain for 24 to 48 hours after
a procedure.
➺ Bispectral index (BIS)
monitoring to measure the depth
of a patient’s anesthesia and prevent
him or her from waking up during a
procedure, a common surgical fear for
many patients.
➺ Participation in a national
Surgical Safety Checklist, in which
the surgical team confirms the patient’s
identity, allergies, surgical site or limb
and other important information
before beginning a procedure.
Anesthesia and Body
Temperature
Anesthesia is a vital component of
surgery, but it interferes with the body’s
temperature regulation. Surgical teams at
Olympic Medical Center use “warming
air blankets” to prevent patients from
cooling off too much during surgery,
which can lead to infection and cardiac
complications. Olympic Medical does
well here – more than 99 percent of
Olympic Medical patients reach the
recovery room with a body temperature
in the normal range.
“The surgical team introduces a
patient to all the personnel in the
operating room before administering
anesthesia to put him or her at ease,”
Dr. Bundy says. “At Olympic Medical,
patients can count on the most up-todate
anesthetic and surgical care right
here in their hometown.”
For information about surgical services at Olympic
Medical, visit www.olympicmedical.org
and select “Services.”
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An Option for
Expectant Mothers
Getting ready for a baby presents challenges, from deciding where to put the crib in your nursery to selecting
where and how you want to give birth. Mothers coming to Olympic Medical Center to welcome their new
arrivals now have another option during delivery – epidural services.
Olympic Medical’s obstetric
(OB) pain management team
is proud to offer epidurals to
women. Available all day, every day,
this valuable option is giving mothers
in Clallam County access to a wide
array of pain management techniques
for delivery.
“Our certified registered nurse
anesthetists [CRNAs] have the expertise
needed to always provide the highest
quality of care to patients who want
an epidural – even if the patient
doesn’t necessarily plan to have one
in advance,” says Lorraine Wall, RN,
MS, chief nursing officer for Olympic
Medical. “Whenever a patient decides
she wants to use an epidural, or if it is
deemed that one is needed, the option
is available. We offer a full range of pain
management services for new mothers.”
A Variety of Services
In addition to the new epidural
services, intrathecal and non-invasive
techniques, among others, are already
available at Olympic Medical. The result
is that mothers can choose the option
that is best for them, meaning mothers
and their new little ones can expect an
individualized experience designed to
meet their needs.
“We want women to know we’re here
for them,” explains Miriam Talley, CRNA
at Olympic Medical. “A woman coming
in to deliver her baby may not know her
threshold to pain or her endurance level.
Having an epidural option available
means these women can, at any time,
take advantage of this and tailor their
birthing experience to make it more
pleasant and memorable.”
We’re getting rave reviews for our
OB pain management team! To learn
more about our Birth Center, visit
www.olympicmedical.org, click on
“Services” and then “Birth Center.”
Our Certified Registered
Nurse Anesthetists
Olympic Medical Center offers
comprehensive 24-hour pain
management to laboring mothers
provided by two certified
registered nurse anesthetists
(CRNAs), Loren Krause and
Miriam Talley.
The addition of Miriam Talley, CRNA, and Loren Krause, CRNA, to our
Birth Center team allows for a full range of pain management services,
24 hours a day.
What Is a Certified Registered
Nurse Anesthetist?
CRNAs represent the nation’s
oldest nursing specialty, dating
back to the Civil War. A CRNA
today is a master’s prepared
advanced practice nurse. CRNAs
are qualified to provide patients
with anesthetics in any practice
setting and for any type of
surgery or procedure.
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Adding a Digital Layer to
PATIENT SAFETY
Patient safety is a priority. That’s why Olympic
Medical Center utilizes electronic medical records
(EMR) to provide physicians with the most
accurate, immediate patient information.
Olympic Medical began implementing EMR in clinics in
April 2010 and will continue rolling out the new electronic
tool to remaining clinics through January 2011. In addition,
Olympic Medical is pleased to utilize federal grant funding to
offer EMR capabilities to clinics within our community that are
not affiliated with Olympic Medical. As more physicians have
access to this revolutionary documentation system, patients
can expect to receive improved quality of care and enhanced
safety measures.
Benefits of EMR include:
• Easily accessible information about patient allergies
and medications
• Faster delivery of laboratory and imaging test results
• Point-of-care decision-making alerts for physicians
• Reduced medical errors compared to paper records
“EMRs are known to provide physicians and their practice
teams with accurate and immediate patient information,” says
Kathy Giuntoli, information technology specialist at Olympic
Medical. “The EMR tool promotes patient safety because the
patient’s medications and past medical history are easily
reviewed during clinical decision making.”
Most importantly, EMRs at Olympic Medical will improve a
physician’s ability to deliver the efficient, effective care patients
have come to expect.
Stay up to date with the latest news at Olympic Medical Center.
Visit www.olympicmedical.org and click on “News & Events.”
Short Stay = Back
to Normal Life Faster
When you are considering having
surgery for an illness or injury, it’s
important to know your options.
Olympic Medical Center is committed
to offering patients convenient and safe
same-day surgical procedures.
The short stay unit at Olympic Medical has a variety
of procedures available that do not require an
overnight hospital stay, including:
• Arthroscopic scope of the knee
• Bladder sling (to strengthen bladder walls and
reduce urinary incontinence)
• Carpal tunnel (pain in the wrist) repair
• Colonoscopies (screening for colorectal cancer)
• Endometrial ablation (removes uterine lining to
reduce uterine bleeding)
• Hernia (internal organ bulges through muscle) repair
“All of the procedures we offer are less invasive,
which means patients will experience a shorter
recovery period and have fewer complications,” says
Edie Thompson, RN, short
stay manager at Olympic
Medical. “This allows patients
to have more control and get
back to their normal routines
more quickly.”
Accredited by The
Joint Commission
Olympic Medical strictly
adheres to hospital quality
and safety standards. The
short-stay unit is accredited
by The Joint Commission,
meaning it offers the standard
of an inpatient hospital for
its same-day surgery – a
standard found nowhere else on the North
Olympic Peninsula.
If you or a loved one is considering having a
surgical procedure, you don’t have to travel far to
receive excellent care.
“We provide the same standard of care as any urban
facility,” says Thompson.
For more information on the short stay unit, visit
www.olympicmedical.org, select “Services” and click
“Surgical Services,” then choose “Services Overview.”
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Emergency Department
Expansion Update
Meeting community need is top priority at Olympic
Medical Center. As part of this, Olympic Medical
is currently in the process of evaluating its emergency
department, working to improve and expand emergency
services over the next few years.
Many areas of Olympic Medical are involved in this project,
including physicians, finance and facilities personnel, nurses
and other direct patient-care staff. This team has visited eight
new emergency departments in the region to look for best
practices in triage and “fast track.” At the same time, the group
is looking at how a patient is moved through the emergency
department from entering the hospital to admit to discharge.
“Our process improvement team is looking at ways to
enhance the way we move patients through the system,” says
Lorraine Wall, RN, MS, chief nursing officer, Olympic Medical.
“These conclusions will help us build the new emergency
department in terms of how it will look, how it is set up,
how we register and how we triage patients.”
Olympic Medical is determining the type of services it will
offer in the emergency department and running projections
to determine the size it will need to be to meet the needs of
the community for the next 10 to 20 years.
“We are collecting ideas from patients, emergency room
staff and people from other departments on what they’d
like to see in the emergency department,” says Wall. “We’re
compiling a list of everything, and we’ll be sitting down with
the architects to start the design at the end of this year.”
Olympic Medical Center Foundation Donations Make a Difference!
Through its various events and campaigns, Olympic Medical Center Foundation raises significant
dollars to purchase needed medical equipment and provide for patient programs at Olympic
Medical Center.
“We are dedicated to providing equipment and services that will bring the most benefit for
patients locally,” says Bruce Skinner, executive director of the OMC Foundation.
Recent donations to Olympic Medical Center include:
• Bariatric treatment table
• Bladder scanners
• Blood bank refrigeration
• Blood centrifuge
• Cardiac event recorders
• Cardiac monitoring software
• Cardiology echo machine
• CCU single-chamber temporary pacemaker
• Endoscopy video scopes
• Flexible cytoscope
• Laboratory courier vehicles
• Lumbar support for physical therapy patients
• Obstetrics birthing bed
• Obstetrics jaundice bassinet
F O U N D AT I O N
• Obstetrics ultrasound equipment
• Oxygen and vital sign monitors
• Radiation oncology equipment
• Ultrasound imaging table
• Work station computers and segmentation hardware
for Olympic Medical Cancer Center
The OMC Foundation also recently donated
automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to public
agencies throughout Port Angeles and Sequim – an effort
to save the lives of heart attack victims.
For more information on Olympic Medical Center
Foundation, please log on to www.olympicmedical.org and
click on “Foundation.”
OMC Foundation Calendar of Events
Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010 – Harvest of Hope
Friday-Sunday, Nov. 26 – 28, 2010 – Festival of Trees
Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 – Team OMC New Orleans
Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011 – Academy Awards
Sunday, May 22, 2011 – Duck Derby
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Olympic Medical Center
offers minimally invasive
knee replacement surgery.
• Smaller scar
• Available for most joint
replacement candidates
• Less post-operative pain
• Shorter hospital stay
• Faster return to an
active lifestyle
• Available with new,
low-friction joint
implant technology
12 www.olympicmedical.org www.olympicmedical.org
(360) 457-1500
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Tucson, AZ
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