News, patient stories, community updates, and important information from Columbia County Health System.
Columbia County Health System has received the American Heart Association’s 2026 Commitment to Quality Award, recognizing our continued commitment to quality improvement across cardiovascular and stroke care. The Commitment to Quality Award recognizes hospitals that use the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® program across multiple cardiovascular and stroke service lines and apply current, evidence-based treatment guidelines to improve patient care and outcomes. This recognition follows four 2026 Get…
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High Performing Team
Members of our revenue cycle team participated in a high performing team building exercise; we brought our complete revenue cycle back in-house in 2018 after having outsourced it since 2010. Members of this team are both patient centered and have set high standards for themselves. Notes from the meeting indicated the characteristics of a high…
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Nursing Homes Are Closing Across Rural America, Scattering Residents
As financial pressures have forced scores of small-town nursing homes to shut down, their residents often must relocate far from their families to find care. Source:Â Nursing Homes Are Closing Across Rural America, Scattering Residents
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The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care
Many facilities are using nostalgic environments as a means of soothing the misery, panic, and rage their residents experience. Source:Â The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care
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Telepsychiatry brings help to rural areas
KING 5’s Amity Addrisi reports. Source: Telepsychiatry brings help to rural areas
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NRHA – Help Save Rural Health Systems!
National Rural Health Association: The Problem: Rural hospitals are closing where patient populations are most vulnerable; rural patients and rural economies suffer. NRHA:Â Click to Read More
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Saving Primary Care Before It’s Too Late
Talk to almost any primary care physician these days and what you’ll hear should frighten you. Many PCPs are actively looking for ways to get out of primary care, and there’s no one to replace them because medical students don’t want to go into primary care. One well-known reason for this is that PCPs are…
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Low Medicaid Rates Cause Skilled Nursing Crisis in Washington State – Skilled Nursing News
It’s unlikely that the state of Washington intended to put its skilled nursing facilities on the brink of disaster when it overhauled its Medicaid system in 2016, but leaders of both LeadingAge Washington and the Washington Health Care Association (WHCA) said that’s exactly what has occurred as providers across the state try to keep their…
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Daily highlight: Dayton General Hospital renovation
Much of Dayton General Hospital’s structure remains the same from when it was constructed in the 1960s, but the interior is vastly different, thanks to a $5.5 million renovation project Source: Daily highlight: Dayton General Hospital renovation
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A hospital’s heart: Rural struggles a common thread
DAYTON — Shane McGuire is CEO of Columbia County Health System, which serves residents here and in Waitsburg, but he’s also an ambassador for rural health care across and outside Source: A hospital’s heart: Rural struggles a common thread
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