Tri Valley Health System News
Tri Valley Health System offers flu shot clinics
Tri Valley Health System is offering opportunities to get your flu shot. The CDC recommends everyone over six months receive an annual influenza vaccination. September and October are the best times for most people to get vaccinated. Tri Valley Health System will be at the Furnas County Courthouse in Beaver City on Tuesday, October 10 from 2-4pm, at the Arapahoe Medical Clinic on Tuesday, October 10 from 4-6pm, and the Cambridge Medical Clinic on Tuesday, October 17 from 4-6pm. Vaccinations are also available at all three medical clinics, no appointment is necessary. Cost for the vaccination is $30 and will be billed to your insurance if proof of coverage is presented.
Tri Valley Health System Healthy Cooking Demo October 4
Join Tri Valley Health System for a free healthy cooking demo on Wednesday, October 4 from 5-6 p.m. Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Tonya Koeppen presents several tasty recipes that are heart healthy, diabetes friendly, and high in fiber. Samples will be provided. Please register at www.ttsu.me/cookingdemo or call 308-697-1153. Hope to see you there!
Cambridge Memorial Hospital Association Annual Meeting October 11
The Cambridge Memorial Hospital Association Meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. at the Heritage Plaza at 1205 Nelson Street in Cambridge, Nebraska. The annual meeting is open to all association members. Anyone is eligible to become a member. Dues are $10 and can be paid online at http://bit.ly/TVHSDues; in person in the Tri Valley Health System Administration Office; mailed to PO Box 488, Cambridge, NE 69022; or paid at the door the day of the meeting. Election of officers will occur at this meeting.
Tri Valley Health System awarded for efforts to improve rural stroke care
The American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Rural Recognition Bronze award recognizes efforts to address the unique health needs of rural communities
People who live in rural communities live an average of three years fewer than urban counterparts and have a 40% higher likelihood of developing heart disease and face a 30% increased risk for stroke mortality — a gap that has grown over the past two decades.[1],[2] Tri Valley Health System is committed to changing that.
For efforts to optimize stroke care and eliminate rural health care outcome disparities, Tri Valley Health System has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Rural Recognition Bronze award.
The American Heart Association, the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all, recognizes the importance of health care services provided to people living in rural areas by rural hospitals that play a vital role in initiation of timely evidence-based care. For that reason, all rural hospitals participating in Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke are eligible to receive award recognition based on a unique methodology focused on early acute stroke performance metrics.
“We are proud that our team at Tri Valley Health System is being recognized for the important work we do every day to improve the lives of people who are affected by stroke, giving them the best possible chance of recovery and survival,” said Chief Nursing Officer Clay Jordan. “As a hospital in a rural community, we deal with characteristics, such as extended interfacility transportation times, and limited staffing resources. We've made it a goal to make sure those hurdles do not affect the standard of care our stoke patients receive.
“Rural communities deserve high quality stroke care. I'm proud of our team for their commitment to stroke care excellence and this achievement.”
The award recognizes hospitals for their efforts toward acute stroke care excellence demonstrated by composite score compliance to guideline-directed care for intravenous thrombolytic therapy, timely hospital inter-facility transfer, dysphagia screening, symptom timeline and deficit assessment documentation, emergency medical services communication, brain imaging and stroke expert consultation.
“Patients and health care professionals in rural areas face unique health care challenges and opportunities,” said Karen E. Joynt Maddox, M.D., MPH, volunteer expert for the American Heart Association, co-author on “Call to Action: Rural Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association” and co-director of the Center for Health Economics and Policy at the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. “Tri Valley Health System has furthered this important work to improve care for all Americans, regardless of where they live.”
Tri Valley Health System is offering opportunities to get your flu shot. The CDC recommends everyone over six months receive an annual influenza vaccination. September and October are the best times for most people to get vaccinated. Tri Valley Health System will be at the Furnas County Courthouse in Beaver City on Tuesday, October 10 from 2-4pm, at the Arapahoe Medical Clinic on Tuesday, October 10 from 4-6pm, and the Cambridge Medical Clinic on Tuesday, October 17 from 4-6pm. Vaccinations are also available at all three medical clinics, no appointment is necessary. Cost for the vaccination is $30 and will be billed to your insurance if proof of coverage is presented.
Tri Valley Health System Healthy Cooking Demo October 4
Join Tri Valley Health System for a free healthy cooking demo on Wednesday, October 4 from 5-6 p.m. Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Tonya Koeppen presents several tasty recipes that are heart healthy, diabetes friendly, and high in fiber. Samples will be provided. Please register at www.ttsu.me/cookingdemo or call 308-697-1153. Hope to see you there!
Cambridge Memorial Hospital Association Annual Meeting October 11
The Cambridge Memorial Hospital Association Meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. at the Heritage Plaza at 1205 Nelson Street in Cambridge, Nebraska. The annual meeting is open to all association members. Anyone is eligible to become a member. Dues are $10 and can be paid online at http://bit.ly/TVHSDues; in person in the Tri Valley Health System Administration Office; mailed to PO Box 488, Cambridge, NE 69022; or paid at the door the day of the meeting. Election of officers will occur at this meeting.
Tri Valley Health System awarded for efforts to improve rural stroke care
The American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Rural Recognition Bronze award recognizes efforts to address the unique health needs of rural communities
People who live in rural communities live an average of three years fewer than urban counterparts and have a 40% higher likelihood of developing heart disease and face a 30% increased risk for stroke mortality — a gap that has grown over the past two decades.[1],[2] Tri Valley Health System is committed to changing that.
For efforts to optimize stroke care and eliminate rural health care outcome disparities, Tri Valley Health System has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Rural Recognition Bronze award.
The American Heart Association, the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all, recognizes the importance of health care services provided to people living in rural areas by rural hospitals that play a vital role in initiation of timely evidence-based care. For that reason, all rural hospitals participating in Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke are eligible to receive award recognition based on a unique methodology focused on early acute stroke performance metrics.
“We are proud that our team at Tri Valley Health System is being recognized for the important work we do every day to improve the lives of people who are affected by stroke, giving them the best possible chance of recovery and survival,” said Chief Nursing Officer Clay Jordan. “As a hospital in a rural community, we deal with characteristics, such as extended interfacility transportation times, and limited staffing resources. We've made it a goal to make sure those hurdles do not affect the standard of care our stoke patients receive.
“Rural communities deserve high quality stroke care. I'm proud of our team for their commitment to stroke care excellence and this achievement.”
The award recognizes hospitals for their efforts toward acute stroke care excellence demonstrated by composite score compliance to guideline-directed care for intravenous thrombolytic therapy, timely hospital inter-facility transfer, dysphagia screening, symptom timeline and deficit assessment documentation, emergency medical services communication, brain imaging and stroke expert consultation.
“Patients and health care professionals in rural areas face unique health care challenges and opportunities,” said Karen E. Joynt Maddox, M.D., MPH, volunteer expert for the American Heart Association, co-author on “Call to Action: Rural Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association” and co-director of the Center for Health Economics and Policy at the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. “Tri Valley Health System has furthered this important work to improve care for all Americans, regardless of where they live.”
