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GRMC purchases equipment to offer new service
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The Graham Regional Hospital Board of Directors approved the purchase of nuclear medicine and echo cardiogram equipment at a combined cost of around $273,000. The board will look to finance the equipment. This will be the first time ever, GRMC will be able to offer nuclear stress tests and echo cardiograms five days a week. (Leader photo by Nathan Lawson)
For the first time ever, Graham Regional Medical Center will be able to offer advanced nuclear medicine and echo cardiograms five days a week. The board of directors approved the purchases of equipment necessary on Tuesday to perform the procedures.
“We have done nuclear medicine at the hospital, for many years, at a very simple, low level,” GRMC CEO Shane Kernell said. “Basically, two things (were done), bone scans and gallbladder scans, and that was it. There are many more things we can do here in the community, (with) a demand for it and we were losing 100 percent of it... things, such as, lung profusions and, the big thing being, nuclear stress tests.”
The CEO added the hospital has already employed a nuclear stress test technician, reached agreements with a cardiologist to read the results and is interviewing echo cardiogram technicians. He added Medicare and other insurances pay the hospital well for performing these services.
For the rest of the story see the Saturday, March 23 edition of The Graham Leader.
