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Benefits to Communities
The mission of all hospitals and health systems, regardless of size and type of ownership, is to care for their patients and communities. In addition to providing financial assistance to those in need, hospitals have programs that are responsive to their community’s needs. These community benefits include help with housing, accessing healthy food, educational programs, health screenings, transportation to ensure patients arrive at needed medical appointments, vaccination clinics and other programs to address the many other needs that affect the community’s health and well-being.
At Mon Health Medical Center, volunteers provide comfort, care during patient’s final days
Mon Health Medical Center in Morgantown, W.Va., recently began its chapter of the nationwide project No One Dies Alone, which uses volunteers to provide comfort and companionship in a patient’s final moments.
A first-ever robotic surgery gives one woman a Thanksgiving to remember
Poppy McGee may not have made it to Thanksgiving. A stroke and brain surgery had already left McGee, 73, in a medically precarious state. Then doctors discovered a severe problem with her aortic valve and a blockage in her coronary artery, which were both contributing to heart failure.
Pediatric urologist at WVU Medicine Children’s innovates safer hypospadias surgery
Hypospadias, a birth defect that results in a baby boy’s urethra forming at the underside of the penis rather than the tip, is commonly corrected through a surgery performed six months to a year after birth.
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Provides State-of-the-Art Medical Imaging with New, Advanced PET/CT Scanner
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center became the first and so far only medical facility in Wyoming to offer the Siemens Biograph Vision™, a next generation positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanner.
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center unveils cutting-edge emergency blood kiosk
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) has launched an innovative emergency department blood kiosk, significantly enhancing patient care by providing immediate access to life-saving blood transfusions.
Innovative biopsy technique leads to early lung cancer detection and recovery
Twelve years after losing her husband David to lung cancer, Bev Brookshire faced her own health scare. When she began to experience shortness of breath and wheezing, a CT scan at Washington state-based MultiCare revealed a nodule on her lung.
FDA announces digital health services pilot
The Food and Drug Administration announced Dec. 5 that it will launch the Technology-Enabled Meaningful Patient Outcomes for Digital Health Devices Pilot, or TEMPO, an initiative aimed to promote access to certain digital health devices.
Myriad Genetics and Intermountain Health join ComboMATCH, a national clinical trial to advance cancer treatment
Working with a partner, Intermountain Precision Genomics, a part of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health system, will begin providing oncology test results that allow access to the ComboMATCH trials.
Cedars-Sinai deploys EKGs in novel way to predict cardiac arrest risk
Investigators at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have found a new method for predicting cardiac arrest using a widely available test.