Keeping people well - Memorial Health Center

MeMorial HealtH Center’sfaMily Center earns 5-starexCellenCe award | NationallyRanked – Top 10% | Memorial HealthCenter’s Family Center earned a5-Star Excellence Award for its qualityof patient care from ProfessionalResearch Consultants, Inc. (PRC),a nationally-known health caremarketing research company.MeMorial HealtH CentertoPs sigMa grouP’s 2008list of “HigHest eMPloyeesatisfaCtion” | Employeewellness programs, work lifesatisfaction, and culture of excellencesets Memorial Health Center apart.ready for wHen disasterstrikes | On the evening of May7, Memorial Health Center leapt intoaction upon receiving news of anammonia leak at a local curling club.enHanCed iMaging eQuiPMentat MeMorial HealtH Center| Memorial Health Center installednew radiology equipment meant toenhance services for its patients. Thenew radiology and fluoroscopy (R/F)unit provides higher resolution imagesand detects smaller calcifications – likesmall kidney stones – than did thehealth center’s previous R/F unit.Another consumer benefit? ⎯Everything is digital. There are no filmsthat need to be transported by footor courier. Specialists can review theresults of Memorial Health Center’sR/F scans prior to the patient arrivingto their appointment, resulting in amore efficient and informative doctor’sappointment and diagnosis.The R/F unit is used to evaluate themotion of the skeletal, digestive, urinary,respiratory, and reproductive systems.new at MediCal CenterPHarMaCy – autoMatedPresCriPtion refills | MedicalCenter Pharmacy, Memorial HealthCenter’s retail pharmacy, implementeda new Interactive Voice Response(IVR) system, allowing patients toelectronically request refills of theirprescriptions over the phone 24 hoursa day.new MediCal direCtor atMeMorial nursing & reHaBCenter | Ricardo Almonte, MD,accepted the Medical Director role atMemorial Nursing & Rehab Center.Dr. Almonte is an internal medicinespecialist at Memorial Health Center.new – eCHoCardiograMs &stress eCHoCardiograMs| With the assistance of the AspirusHeart & Vascular Institute andCardiovascular Associates, MemorialHealth Center’s CardiopulmonaryServices has successfully implementedtwo new services for Memorial HealthCenter’s consumers: Echocardiogramsand Stress Echocardiograms.Echocardiograms (also called Echoes)and Stress Echoes are painless, noninvasiveways to examine how well aperson’s heart is working.Michael Marciniak of Aspirus’ Echo/Vascular Department simulates anechocardiogram on Sara Paddock, Memorial Health Center respiratory therapist.16 | MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER | AN AspIRus pARTNER