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Friends honor Brian Mester with donation
to Upland Hills Health |
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| Upland Hills Hospice
Patient Brian D. Mester, age 27, of Ridgeway
and formerly of Mineral Point, passed away
on Friday February 16, 2007 surrounded by
his loving family after a courageous battle
with cancer. |
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his family and friends organized a Memorial
Ride on Brian’s birthday last August.
The ride organizers raised over $3,000.00
dollars through the support of local businesses
and ride participants at the event. It is
with deep gratitude to these participants
and donors, that Brian’s family and
friends, were able to make a significant
donation to both Upland Hills Hospice and
the American Cancer Society in remembrance
of Brian. |
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Urgent Care Hours Extended for
the Holidays |
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| Upland Hills Health
is extending its Urgent Care hours for the
upcoming holidays. |
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be available December 25, Christmas Day,
and January 1, New Year’s Day, from
9 am to 10 pm. Urgent care patients should
use the Main/Emergency entrance. Emergency
services are available 24 hours a day, 7
days a week. |
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Unveiling of Historic Time Capsules on
December 7th! |
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| Contents of the
time capsules found in the recently removed
cornerstones of the Upland Hills Health 1950
and 1913 buildings will be unveiled on Friday
December 7, 2007. |
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Upland Hills Health Receives Read Program
Donation from UW-Platteville Students |
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| The UW-Platteville
chapter of the Student Wisconsin Education
Association recently donated several educational
packages to Upland Hills Health to distribute
to newborn babies. |
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Upland Hills Health Names new Director
of Acute Care Services |
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| Upland Hills Health
has announced that Tammy Rule will serve
as the new Director of Acute Care Services,
supervising both the Intensive Care and Medical/Surgical
Units. |
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Upland Hills Health Wear-Testing Land’s
End Lab Coats |
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New Equipment at Upland Hills Health Makes
Asthma Diagnoses more Efficient |
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| Asthma diagnosis
at Upland Hills Health is much more efficient,
thanks to new equipment in the Pulmonary
Function Lab. |
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| The new asthma testing equipment
at Upland Hills Health, called Niox, diagnoses
asthma by measuring a patient’s exhaled
amounts of nitric oxide, a byproduct of the
airway inflammation that occurs with asthma. |
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New Med Dispensers Add to Patient Safety,
Efficiency at Upland Hills Health |
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| In keeping with
Upland Hills Health’s commitment to
providing the ideal patient experience, the
hospital pharmacy is working to keep patients
even safer while they are in the hospital. |
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| A new medication delivery system
has recently been installed in the Obstetrics
and Emergency departments, and will soon
be installed in the Medical/Surgical department.
The new delivery system is a vending machine-type
design that ensures accuracy and safety in
medication delivery and patient billing. |
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Hospital Volunteers Show Support for Upland
Hills Health Dialysis Center |
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| Working with the
hospital foundation, Upland Hills Health
volunteers have implemented a program to
support the new kidney dialysis program—scheduled
to open in the lower level of the Nursing
and Rehab Center in spring of 2008. |
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| Hospital volunteers understand
the significance of the new dialysis program
and have committed themselves to helping
spread the word—by personally signing
thank you cards sent to donors. Donors are
encouraged to display these cards in their
homes or businesses to increase awareness
of kidney disease and the Upland Hills Health
dialysis program. |
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New Director of ER at Upland Hills Health |
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Upland Hills Health staff logs over 124,950,000
steps in recent wellness walking challenge |
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| Upland Hills Health
recently completed their MOVE TO
IMPROVE employee fitness challenge. Over 200 employees
invested in pedometers to participate in
the 6 month wellness walking challenge. |
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Joint Commission recognizes positive qualities
of Upland Hills Hospice and Home Care Services |
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| Recently, a Joint
Commission surveyor reviewed the Upland Hills
Health Homecare and Hospice team. |
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well,” said Deanna Wilson RN, MSN,
NHA and Community Care Director. “We
were extremely pleased that the Joint Commission
recognized the excellent care and quality
services available from our Hospice and Home
Care programs.” |
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Upland Hills Health Sports Medicine named
official Athletic Training Provider for Area Schools |
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| Upland Hills Health Sports
Medicine is the official Athletic Training
provider for Mineral Point and Dodgeville
High Schools for the 2007-08 school year. |
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Athletic trainer, Brad Vamstad provided additional
after school Athletic Training service as
well as game coverage to both schools on
a volunteer basis. |
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supplemented the program that was in place.
Now we are fortunate enough to have gotten
contracts for both schools” stated
Vamstad. |
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Upland Hills Health offers FREE seminars
at upcoming senior event |
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| Upland Hills Health professionals
will offer free seminars during the Senior
Expo Fall Ball to be held at the Belmont
Convention Center on September 20th. A cooking
seminar at 10 am and a dance/fitness seminar
will take place at 1 pm. |
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Upland Hills Health support of the Free
Clinic pays off during August downpour |
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| At the June 2007 meeting the
Upland Hills Health Board of Directors agreed
to support the expansion of the Connections
Free Clinic with $35,000 worth of funding. |
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| The investment allows the free
clinic—located in the old Metropolitan
Art building on Iowa Street—to move
from the cramped 1st floor area it shares
with other community resources to the ground
floor. |
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Upland Hills Health Earns Proficient Recognition |
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| Upland Hills Health was recently
awarded the Proficient level of recognition
from the Wisconsin Forward Award. The scoring
system allows for different tiers within
the Proficient level, and Upland Hills Health
scored in the highest tier. |
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| The Wisconsin Forward Award
was created to honor Wisconsin businesses
that are committed to high standards of excellence
in their business practices. |
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Director of Community Care Joins Upland
Hills Health |
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| Deanna Wilson is the new Director
of Community Care at Upland Hills Health.
As such, she is responsible for the Homecare
and Hospice programs as well as the Nursing
and Rehab Center—encompassing the departments
that have the most direct daily contact with
the community. |
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New Director Focuses on Information and
Quality |
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| Vicki Scheel is the new Director
of Health Information Management and Quality
Improvement at Upland Hills Health. The two
functions are combined for the first time
in her new role. |
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| Previously, although Health
Information Management and Quality Improvement
departments worked together, they were not
managed by one person. Upland Hills Health
will now have one person coordinating the
relationship between the departments. |
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Upland Hills Health included in US News & World
Report's America's Best Hospital Issue |
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| As appeared in the July
23, 2007 issue of US News & World Report |
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Upland Hills Health Expansion
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