Logan Regional Hospital and Cache Valley Specialty Hospital Offer State-of-the-Art Health Care
Quick question to hospital patients: Why drive an hour to Ogden or 90 minutes to Salt Lake City or two hours to Provo for medical treatment‚ when most of those services are available in Cache Valley?
Logan Regional is in the midst of constructing a 100‚000-square-foot Women’s and Newborn Center that will bring all women’s services together in the same facility.
“Those services will include mammography‚ ultrasound and an expanded newborn intensive care unit all under one roof‚” says Bob Cash‚ Intermountain Logan Regional Hospital admin istrator. “As for other future growth‚ we are also planning to build a cancer center that will provide radiation oncology services.”
At the moment‚ radiation oncology services are not available to patients in Cache Valley‚ but Logan Regional will change that by 2008.
“Right now‚ Cache Valley residents must travel an hour one-way to Ogden in order to receive a radiation oncology treatment that often lasts only five to 15 minutes‚” says John Worley‚ Intermountain Logan Regional Hospital assistant administrator. “But it is a treatment that patients need on a daily basis for six to eight consecutive weeks‚ so the continuous one-hour drives to Ogden obviously become tedious. Once we open our cancer center in 2008‚ it will be another significant improvement to the access of care we will provide for our local community.”
Logan Regional also features a Level III trauma center staffed by emergency-trained physicians.
“It’s never good to be sick‚ but our patients can rest easier knowing they will always receive the utmost care from us‚” Cash says.
Meanwhile‚ Cache Valley Specialty Hospital has opened a Pain Management Center to serve patients with acute and chronic pain. That includes anyone who suffers from migraines and other headaches‚ whiplash injuries‚ neck pain‚ nerve pain‚ mid- and lower-back pain‚ and reflex abnormalities.
The hospital has also implemented a procedure called stereotactic breast imaging that is minimally invasive‚ taking the place of surgeries needed to perform biopsies of abnormal breast tissue.
“In addition‚ we have started a procedure called total joint navigation‚ and are one of only a few hospitals in Utah with this technology‚” says Mike Staheli‚ CEO of Cache Valley Specialty Hospital.
“It involves a computer-assisted system that allows surgeons to more precisely align hip and knee implants‚ and gives surgeons a 3-D imaging of the leg during surgery. It is an incredible medical breakthrough.”
The hospital also offers services such as pedi atric therapy as well as a “back school” that supplies information and exercise tips to people who suffer from spinal discomfort.
“We also have a sleep lab where we perform the necessary lab procedures‚ then a board-certified sleep specialist and a pulmonologist quickly inter pret all the results‚” Staheli says. “The sleep lab offers prompt turn-around time so that our pat ients can get treatment that will ultimately result in them finally enjoying a normal night’s sleep at home.”
Cache Valley Specialty also has an emergency room that has achieved Level III trauma status‚ with licensed physicians and registered nurses on site 24 hours a day.
“Our name says it all – we are a specialty hospital‚” Staheli says. “If I was a patient in Cache Valley who needed the best medical care‚ I wouldn’t go anywhere else.”
