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Stafford Hospital celebrates its first birthday this weekend Date published: 2/28/2010
BY JIM HALL In a year of operation, Stafford Hospital has never had a patient develop a pressure ulcer, a central-line infection or ventilator-associated pneumonia. "Everything we should be doing on the quality side we're doing," said Cathy Yablonski, administrator. Yet as it celebrates its first birthday this weekend, Stafford Hospital is also a place of possibilities. Its waiting rooms and hallways are often empty. Its facilities are underused. In recent months, the census of patients has hovered around 40. Because of this, one of the patient floors in the 100-bed building has never opened. 'ALMOST EUPHORIA' "This first year it was crazy," Yablonski said. "It was getting all the pieces that we needed to get together." Employees worked on adrenaline, "almost euphoria," she said, and have largely completed the task. Except for pending expansion of the nursery, all programs are in place. Now Yablonski is asking the staff to sustain, even improve on, the work they've done. "Now it gets into the hard part," she said. ALL IN A YEAR Stafford Hospital Center opened Feb. 27, 2009. It was the second hospital in the region, the first truly new hospital in Virginia in more than 30 years. Along the way, it shortened its name to Stafford Hospital, earned preliminary accreditation from the Joint Commission, and treated more than 30,000 people in its emergency department. It has also added new services, including last week's opening of the cardiac catheterization lab. It has inspired at least one other commercial development, a 52-acre rezoning to the south that includes medical offices. And it has brought lifesaving care closer to "It's made our life so much easier," said Terri Gamlin, a paramedic with the Stafford County Fire and Rescue Department. "With the hospital so close now, we can turn a call over in an hour." LIKE ITS BIG BROTHER In many ways, Stafford is like its big brother, the 412-bed Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg. Almost all of its in-house doctors--the anesthesiologists, radiologists, hospitalists, ER doctors and neonatalogists--came from Mary Washington. In addition, a few Fredericksburg-based specialists, from surgeons to obstetricians, have opened satellite offices there and now practice in both places.
Read more stories about Fredericksburg Date published: 2/28/2010
The chart pretty clearly says "daily average." So that would be an average of 11 admissions per day over the year. 11 x 365 = 4,015.
fairness... They have ONLY had 11 People Admitted to the Hospital, so Not having a major issue with only 11 Pts in a year is not really a test of a hospital. Sorry.....Lets see How HCA does in its first Year...... Question to the new MediCorp Hospital, Do You Still only have 10 Rooms open for use ???
that while they have 40 patient's , mary wash is in surge mode and some patients have to "double up" in the room and share it with another patient! Also there are overflow teams for patients they can't even find a bed for.
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