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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 9, 2015 — Vocera (NYSE:VCRA), the leading mobile healthcare communications company, announced today that Dayton General Hospital has improved critical communication inside and outside their facility and increased patient safety and satisfaction, following the implementation of the Vocera(R) Communication System.
Our Emergency Department team members work fast to provide life saving and stabilization services to trauma patients, but just as important is the rapid response of regional medical flight crews. There is no doubt that the residents of Columbia County, and rural Washington State in general, rely heavily on the men and women supporting the emergency medical flight organizations.
In the United States, one in 5 women will have a stroke; Patients suffering a stroke require rapid transportation to the nearest stroke center. In some cases we are able to administer a brain saving drug called tissue plasminogen activator (TPA) and then transport via the fastest method possible, which is often helicopter. Columbia County is serviced by both Northwest Medstar and Lifeflight.
Please Welcome Dr. Kurt Frauenpreis to Columbia County Health System: Dr. Frauenpreis received his M.D. from American University of the Caribbean and completed his residency at Family Medicine, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. After completing his training in 1994, he began his first practice as a family medicine provider at Beale Air Force Base in California. After his honorable discharge from military service, Dr. Frauenpreis worked as both a family medicine provider and family medicine provider with surgery assistance at Hemet Community Medical Group and Hemet Hospital respectively. In 2006 Dr. Frauenpreis joined Bear Valley Community Healthcare District in both provider and administrative capacities. Prior to coming to Dayton, Dr. Frauenpreis worked for Sublette County Rural Healthcare District in Pinedale, Wyoming where he served as a primary care provider and covered their Emergency Department.
Fantastic support from Columbia County Health Systems Staff and a great turn-out by Dayton and Waitsburg communities! Our Respiratory Therapist, Tom Anderson, brought in a set of Pig Lungs to show kids how lungs inflate/deflate while breathing!
Welcome, Kurt Frauenpreis, MD, our new doctor who joins us from Wyoming. Dr. Frauenpreis is a Family Practice Physician who is welcoming new patients at Columbia Family Clinic. He is also certified to perform CDL physicals. Call for an appointment today at 509.382.3200.
The Health System maintains a park like campus thanks to the fantastic facilities team. Residents, staff, and in-patients often comment about how well the grounds look and enjoy the view from their windows as well as getting out and about around the facility.
