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Community Hospital hosting open house |
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October 13, 2016 |
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Boundary Community Hospital is throwing its
doors open to the public from 3 to 5 p.m. this
Friday, October 14, for tours of the facility,
the various hospital departments, and to provide
information to all who wish to see and learn for
themselves why the hospital is asking Boundary
County residents to pass a levy of $414,000 a
year for the next two years at the upcoming
general election in November.
Those who attend the Open House can take a
guided tour of the hospital, the Extended Care
Facility nursing area, and the Outpatient
Services department. Representatives from the
x-ray department will be showing examples of CT
scan images done with the hospital's brand new
CT scanner (which has already been paid for and
is not a part of the levy). The hospital lab
will have information on advances in lab testing
equipment.
If you weren't aware that several common
surgical procedures are routinely being
performed at our local hospital on a weekly
basis, you might want to find out more at the
open house, where the hospital's surgical team
will review what procedures are being done
through their department right now, and the
expanded surgical options that could become
available here locally if the proposed levy
passes.
Tours will also be available of the hospital's
Rehabilitation Department, where teams of
Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists,
and Speech Therapy work daily with Boundary
County residents who have been injured, who are
recovering from surgery, or with other medical
issues. Those visiting this department will
likely be impressed with the extensive equipment
and the therapists who help those patients to
literally get back on their feet.
While you are on the hospital tour, you can walk
right up and ask to talk to the hospital's Board
of Directors, who will be available to answer
any questions about the operation of the
hospital, and about the proposed levy. The
hospital board is made up of local county
residents who oversee and govern the hospital in
its provision of medical services to the
community.
Also on hand will representatives of the Fry
Healthcare Foundation, the non-profit agency
dedicated to collecting and dispersing funds,
goods and services to meet the ongoing needs of
Boundary Community Hospital and Extended Care
Facility. The dedicated members of this
Foundation have raised over $1 million over the
years, money they have used to purchase
state-of-the-art medical equipment, finance
facility construction and renovation and fund
ongoing programs and services at the hospital.
Representatives of the Hospital Auxiliary will
also be at the open house. This group also
sponsors events to help raise funds for the
hospital.
If you would like to find to find out first hand
what is going on at the hospital, to see for
yourself what is available there, what the needs
are, and how the requested funds will be used,
you are invited. |
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