ALTON — Three Alton Memorial Hospital departments have acquired awards from nationwide well being care analysis chief Skilled Analysis Consultants Inc. (PRC).
The Digestive Well being Heart earned a Prime Performer award for the third consecutive 12 months. PRC’s highest honor acknowledges well being care amenities, service strains and hospital models who rating on the a centesimal percentile for the Total High quality of Care p.c “Glorious” rating in PRC’s nationwide consumer database for the prior 12 months.
“The Digestive Well being group works very effectively collectively, in a really environment friendly means,” stated Amy Toenyes, nurse supervisor of the DHC. “Throughout the pandemic, we needed to make some scheduling changes and add some steps to getting signed into the division. However they have been capable of give the identical distinctive care.”
Throughout that point, the workers saved up its apply of checking in with sufferers by telephone earlier than and after their visits, though COVID surges triggered staffing adjustments and disrupted division routines.
“However when working within the division, the group nonetheless continued to offer 100% to their sufferers there, making them really feel protected and comfy throughout their time spent on the hospital,” Amy stated. “I’ve some wonderful workers who’ve labored on this division for a number of years. The data base of the nursing workers is excellent and their consideration to element is what helps make the care wonderful.”
The Digestive Well being Heart affords a full vary of diagnostic checks to uncover abdomen and intestinal issues, and supplies therapeutic procedures for remedy. For extra info or to schedule an appointment with a gastroenterologist, name 618-463-7874 or go to www.altonmemorialhospital.org and seek for Digestive Well being Heart underneath “Medical Providers.”
The AMH Human Movement Institute and Cardiac Cath acquired 5-Star Awards, that are awarded yearly to well being care amenities, service strains and hospital models who rating within the high 10 p.c (at or above the ninetieth percentile) of the PRC nationwide consumer database for the prior 12 months. These awards are primarily based on the proportion of sufferers who fee the power or unit as “Glorious” for the Total High quality of Care query.
The Human Movement Institute group has earned a number of PRC awards by means of the 12 months, providing inpatient and outpatient bodily, occupational, and speech remedy with a teamwork strategy. Outpatient providers are provided at three handy areas –- the AMH campus (Floor ground, Olin Wing); Alton North Bodily Remedy, 226 Regional Drive; and Bethalto Bodily Remedy at 155 E. Bethalto Drive. For extra info, go to the AMH web site and seek for Human Movement Institute Rehabilitation underneath “Medical Providers.”
“I’m happy with our gifted remedy group, devoted to offering genuinely wonderful high quality of care,” stated Sue Walker, PT, MBA, supervisor of Rehab Providers at AMH. “We offer the most effective remedy near residence.”
The Cardiac Cath group places the newest diagnostic and remedy expertise within the palms of the area’s most skilled coronary heart care group. Board-certified cardiologists, cardiac-trained nurses and technicians work within the space’s most superior cardiovascular lab, and carry out extra coronary heart catheterization, angioplasty and stent procedures than every other hospital within the River Bend space. For extra info, name 618-463-7427 or go to the AMH web site and click on on “Coronary heart & Vascular Heart” underneath “Medical Providers.”
“The devoted Cardiology group at AMH has a variety of expertise,” stated Cathy Wagner, supervisor of the Cardiac Cath Lab. “They work collectively as one unit to supply wonderful care and compassion to our sufferers, physicians and one another. Their dedication to our sufferers and group is past something we are able to ask.”
“Everybody in our hospital works extraordinarily laborious to earn the respect and belief of our sufferers, physicians and the communities we serve,” says Dave Braasch, president of AMH. “I’m very happy with our group, who’ve labored tirelessly these previous two years by means of the COVID-19 pandemic. All through all of it, they repeatedly strived to enhance the standard, security and expertise of our sufferers and their households. Our focus is to at all times make drugs higher.”
