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Published: July 22, 2008 10:26 pm
Meyersdale hospital unveils scanner
By PATRICK BUCHNOWSKI
The Tribune-Democrat
MEYERSDALE —
A small outlying hospital in Somerset County is looking to keep its patients from fleeing to larger facilities through expansion and new technology.
Meyersdale Medical Center on Tuesday offered the public a look at its recently acquired Siemens 16-slice CT scanner, which replaced its single-slice scanner.
The images “peel away bone and tissues so all you have left is the blood vessels or arteries,” Radiology Director Mark Meekins said.
Now patients won’t have to travel to Johnstown or Cumberland, Md., for scans.
“We’re able to keep our patients here,” said Dr. Nathan O. Thomas, president of the Meyersdale medical staff.
Keeping patients is critical to small medical facilities, he said.
“Patients prefer to have studies done by people they know,” Thomas reasoned.
The $500,000 scanner is part of the plan to better care for patients at Meyersdale, hospital President Mary Libengood said.
Meyersdale officials are planning construction of a Medical Arts Building next door.
The building will include a primary care clinic, offices for visiting specialists, room for education and support groups and space for expansion. Hospital officials are piecing together a time frame for the multimillion-dollar project.
Also this fall, Meyersdale will offer online education for patients suffering from such conditions as high blood pressure, obesity and high cholesterol, Libengood said.
“It will help patients better manage their disease,” she said. “In order to be able to give our rural patients the same quality care as their urban counterparts, we need to update technology.”
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