A $100,000 grant has raised the level of care for heart patients at Healdton Mercy Hospital.
The grant funds, provided by the McCrory, Priddy, Noble and Southern Oklahoma Memorial foundations, provide high-tech heart monitoring equipment. The new equipment aids nurses and doctors in more accurately diagnosing cardiac problems and determining whether a patient needs to be transferred to another facility.
According to Shana Hammond, Mercy Memorial Health Center, patients at the Healdton medical facility are now monitored remotely 24 hours a day, seven days a week by monitor technicians at MMHC’s intensive care unit in Ardmore. In addition, a central station is also in place for Healdton physicians and nurses to watch patients closely.
“We are very proud and very excited to be able to offer leading heartmonitoring technology to our patients.
This means that patients can be monitored in Healdton first, then transferred to a higher level facility if needed,” said Rick Pack, Healdton Mercy Hospital administrator. “This drastically changes the quality of care we can offer our patients.”
Grant funding also has provided four telemetry units and a Heart-Start XL biphasic defibrillator. The telemetry units, which monitor heart activity, allow patients to walk around and not be confined to a bed.
