Family Health West (FHW) announces it has been recognized with a 2023 Performance Leadership Award for excellence in the category of Patient Perspective. Compiled by the Chartis Center for Rural Health, the Performance Leadership Awards honor top quartile performance (i.e., 75th percentile or above) among rural hospitals across America in the categories of quality, outcomes, and/or patient perspective.
RG Bank makes considerable donation to Rio Grande Hospital in support of the future Wellness Center! Thank you RG Bank and to those who have donated so far.
Montrose Regional Health’s new four-story Ambulatory Care Center is almost done, and the hospital is planning for some providers to be seeing patients by early February.
MRH hosted an open house last Thursday, where members of the community could tour the construction site and see where each of the future services would be provided.
Delta Health is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $650,000 grant through the State of Colorado’s Rural Provider Access and Affordability Stimulus Grant Program. The grant is allocated to support the enhancement of Delta Health’s electronic health record (EHR) system by adding an oncology module, a hospital-wide scheduling module, and a blood bank module.
St. Vincent Health and Lake County boast having the only Pediatric Occupational Therapy service in the central mountain region. This service was opened in 2021. Medical providers from Lake, Chaffee, Eagle, and Summit Counties – and beyond, refer their patients to St. Vincent Health and Occupational Therapist, Rachel Griffin, OTD, OTR/L, ATP.
On November 19, 2022, Kevin planned to spend the day working on his part of the project, not knowing that in just a few seconds his life was going to change forever. He was using a nail gun to speed up the process and things were going well until the nail gun jammed. Kevin thought the gun was out of nails and turned it around to take a quick look. He had the gun pointed toward him when he heard it go off and felt a puff of air.
A new behavioral health crisis center opened its doors in Fort Collins this weekend, available to Larimer County residents of all ages regardless of their ability to pay. For the first time, residents will be able to access multiple levels of behavioral health care, in one building, close to home.
Specialized training such as pediatric care can make a difference for critically ill children and babies in rural hospitals like the SLV Health Regional Medical Center in Alamosa and Conejos County Hospital in La Jara.
To compile its Best Hospitals for Maternity Care (Uncomplicated Pregnancy) list, U.S. News examined survey data voluntarily submitted by hospitals from across the nation that provide labor and delivery services and submitted detailed data to the publication; 680 hospitals, an all-time high, participated in this year’s U.S. News survey. U.S. News gave 311 hospitals high-performing designations in maternity care for 2023-24.
Family Health West has treated almost 400 people since the clinic started in December 2020, but Price tells WesternSlopeNow she thinks the number of people with long COVID is much higher.