vim - Marion General Hospital

Life in General
MGH Lab Receives
National Accreditation
The accreditation committee of the College of
American Pathologists (CAP) has awarded accreditation
to MGH Diagnostics-Northwood based on the
results of a recent on-site inspection.
The laboratory’s director, Dean Ricks, M.D., was
advised of this national recognition and was congratulated
for the excellent services the laboratory provides.
MGH Diagnostics-Northwood joins more than 7,000
laboratories worldwide that are CAP-accredited.
CAP is the world’s largest association composed exclusively of board-certified
pathologists and is widely considered the leader in laboratory quality assurance.
The federal government recognizes the CAP Laboratory Accreditation Program
as being equal to or more stringent than its own inspection program.
During the CAP accreditation process, inspectors examine the laboratory’s
records and quality control of procedures for the preceding two years. CAP
inspectors also examine laboratory staff qualifications, as well as the laboratory’s
equipment, facilities, safety program and record, in addition to the
overall management.
This stringent inspection program is designed to specifically ensure the
highest standard of care for all laboratory patients.
New Providers
Join MGH
Connie M. Ignacio, M.D.
Marion Anesthesiology PC
Haritha Bellam, M.D.
MGH Hospitalist
Program
Need a Doc?
Call the MGH physician referral line
at 765-660-6444.
Plush Toys Comfort Children
During Their Hospital Stays
They are cute, cuddly, fluffy and free to inpatient pediatric
unit patients, ages 1 to 10. What are they? Pillow Pets! They
help Marion General Hospital’s young patients cope with an
often unexpected inpatient hospital stay.
“As you can imagine, they have been very well received
by our children,” says Donna Tucker, administrative director
of maternal child care. “Once they receive one, it gives them
an immediate smile and a sudden urge to hug.”
Pillow Pets are provided to MGH free of charge by the
Starlight Children’s Foundation Midwest in Chicago.
“We have partnered with
the foundation for many
A gift from a Chicago-based
years and have been grateful foundation, these Pillow Pets
help children cope when they
recipients of their generosity,”
are admitted to the hospital.
Tucker says. “In the past, they
have given us pull wagons and video game consoles to help
our children get through long days spent at the hospital.”
Once discharged from MGH, Pillow Pets go home with the
children to permanently stay, providing them with many more
opportunities to smile and have the sudden urge to hug.
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