Posts by Columbia County Health System

We’ve completed the new Annex dining room where residents can enjoy a more private, but still sociable dining experience. Both dietary staff as well as residents are excited about the new space: [easyrotator]erc_73_1362011002[/easyrotator]

You can take steps today to lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. To help prevent heart disease, you can: Eat healthy and get active. Watch your weight. Quit smoking and stay away from secondhand smoke.…

We have been working hard to expand our Pharmacy to include a new IV preparation hood. The new hood will greatly reduce the possibility of contamination and could allow us to offer additional services like Total Parenteral Nutrition, or TPN. TPN is often ordered for patients that cannot, or should not, get their nutrition through…

I recently had the opportunity to provide some information for NoaNet’s ENewsletter that they produce. I’m sure that the format will require that they edit the content of my responses greatly, I thought I would share the full response here. A little background: NoaNet was selected to build out a fiber optic network into rural…

Last week we officially began using the new, remodeled space. Medical staff is discovering how to be more efficient every day and feel that our patients have a much more personal experience in the private exam rooms. We could not have done this without the efforts of our valued staff, community support, and some great…

Casework is up! The rooms really are looking great. We will be excited to see how the floors look at the end of next week.

The cabinetry is installed in the exam rooms and the ceiling grid has been installed. We will have floors and a bulk of the electrical done next week! Thanks greatly to Blue Room Architecture, Walla Walla Electric, Leone & Keeble, and Apollo Heating.

Things are progressing rapidly with the sheetrock crew finishing up as well as the fire alarm and sprinkler crews finishing up. We will have cabinets and flooring starting next week and hope to be moving in the week of the 23rd.

Pertussis, or “Whooping Cough”, has reached epidemic levels in the State of Washington. According to the Washington State Department of Health, as of June 9th 2012 there have been 2,325 cases reported statewide, compared to 171 reported cases, over the same time period, in 2011. Infants and children have been hit hardest, both in number…

Booker’s Getting a new roof! Thanks to Janean, Nick, Brian, Mike, Kevin for the help on stocking the roof. Amazing team, amazing teamwork!