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Hospital Photo Tour Last Updated: Feb 15, 2010 - 2:25 PM


Hospital Picture Tour
Feb 26, 2007 - 5:38 PM

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Ultra Sound Room
The ultrasound equipment is set up and ready for use near the Radiology rooms in the new addition.

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Lab
Diane Ptacek is enjoying the extra space in the lab. It makes their job much easier.

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Lab
The new lab area is now large enough to allow for additional modern equipment.

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Reading Room
The room where the X-rays are read features a large, half moon shaped desk and working area for radiologists and physicians to examine results.

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New Emergency Entrance
The Emergency Entrance now face to the South.

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Waiting Room
The waiting room now has the glass installed in the corner wall, as well as seating for several people.

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Wellness Center
Patrons are certainly enjoying the new and improved Wellness Center facility and all of the new machines and equipment.

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Consultation Room
The consultation room located near the surgery and ER areas, allow physicians to discuss a patient's condition privately with the family.

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Radiology Room - New E-Ray Machine
X-Rays will now be filmless. Xrays will no longer be taken on film, instead, they will be viewed on the computer which allows them to quickly send the images to a radiologist for reading.

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New CT Scanner
The hospital will be going from a one slice scanner to a six slice scanner. Now CTs will be able to be completed faster and they will be able to do more specialized exams.

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New Trauma Room
The Trauma Room is one of two emergency rooms which are connected with a hallway so that if there is more than one emergency patient they are able to travel easily from room to room.

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Emergency Room
One of two emergency rooms which are connected. This room will hold more than one emergency patient.

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Intensive Care Unit
The ICU room is located directly across from the nurses station so nurses can monitor the patient easier.

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Physical Therapy Room
The physical Therapy department has 4 patient areas divided by curtains, as well as, two private rooms.

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Nurse's Station
The nurses station is centrally located between patient rooms, ER, surgery and the pharmacy.

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ER Nurse's Station
The ER will have their own nurses station to make patient admission and dismissal more efficient.

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Lab
The new lab features a larger working area, more storage space, and a separate room for drawing specimens to be tested.

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Surgery Room

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Recovery Room
The recovery room has three beds divided by curtains.

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New Patient Rooms
All new patient rooms are private rooms with laminate floors and handicapped accessible bathroom and shower.

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Patient Room
Patient rooms also have a sink in the room, besides the one in the patient's bathroom, for doctors and nurses to use.

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New Bathrooms
All bathrooms in the new addition feature this brown and tan checkerboard decor.

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Wellness Center
The Wellness Center has two Air Dyne bicycles and a NuStep, which is a type of a stepper machine that allows the user to sit down, making the exercise easier on the knees.

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Wellness Center
In addition to the other new equipment, there are 4 treadmills and a new eliptical machine in the Wellness Center.

 

 

 


 

 



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