Rockcastle Regional Hospital & Respiratory Care Center recently purchased an advanced ultrasound for the Diagnostic Imaging Department. The Siemens S2000 ultrasound machine will allow clinicians to assess cardiac activity, basic anatomy and suspected internal bleeding from trauma. It will also aid in determining fetal position, heart beat and other specific conditions in pregnant patients.
Whether you take a vacation to relax somewhere close to home or travel great distances, work is the furthest thing from your mind. But for Chemotherapy and Emergency Department nurse Renee Miller that wasn't the case. Earlier this year, Renee took a cruise to the Bahamas and her passion for treating patients and caring for cancer patients wasn't left at home.
Armed with the number of horseback riders seen annually in UK's Emergency Department, a unique collaboration between the University of Kentucky and community partners was born. "Saddle Up Safely" is a five year educational and awareness campaign to educate horseback riders about horse handling safety, ultimately reducing the number and severity of rider injuries.
Rockcastle Regional Hospital Home Health professionals offer comprehensive, advanced care in your home. A unique service is telehealth - or the use of a telemonitor in the home to monitor the patient.
George W. Griffith, M.D. and Cindy Burton, Rockcastle Regional Hospital and Respiratory Care Center Chief Nursing Officer spoke at a Healthcare Management System (HMS) conference in April. Hosted in Nashville, over five hundred people ...
The new emergency department at the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital has been completed. The new emergency department, which is twice as large as the previous facility (or roughly equivalent in size to a football field), opened to patients at 5 a.m. on July 14.
Rockcastle Regional is committed to Healthcare Excellence and will celebrate this dedication May 10-16 during National Hospital Week. A variety of activities will honor staff members, patients and the community with the theme "A Tradition of Caring."
Rockcastle Regional Physical Therapist Robby Taylor took advantage of the free cholesterol screenings offered to employees to recognize National Cholesterol Awareness month in September 2008.
Rockcastle Regional Hospital in partnership with UK HealthCare is sponsoring the 2011 Kentucky Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Rockcastle Regional Hospital and Respiratory Care Center has been named to an elite group of hospitals and health systems who have demonstrated successful, advanced use of health information technology by one of the nation's leading IT providers for community hospitals.
When it comes to matters of the heart, time is valuable. The ability to recognize and diagnose problems quickly is safer for patients and their heart. "Time is muscle. Earlier detection of a heart attack saves more muscles of the heart which means less damage and risk for complications," said Eric Smith ...
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