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Healthcare Strengthening Healthcare Across the Panhandle
the Joint Commission as a Primary Stroke Center. Recent innovations include the opening of a dedicated infusion center and an outpatient anticoagulation clinic. Regional West offers the region’s most technologically advanced, complete emergency and trauma care for thousands of patients annually. The Regional West Air Link program is fully accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS). Air Link provides advanced life support and transportation with both rotor and fixed wing air ambulance capability. Regional West Medical Center is accredited by the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) by successfully meeting the requirements continued on page 14
cancer interventional radiology, nephrology, neurosurgery, behavioral health, cardiology, treatment, rehabilitation services, and more. The Medical Center offers the region’s only birthing center staffed by obstetricians, pediatricians, and specialty trained nurses, as well as a Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Regional West Physicians Clinic is western Nebraska and central eastern Wyoming’s largest multispecialty medical and surgical group. It is staffed with dozens of primary care providers specializing in family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics. The Medical Center is a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence. It has also received the Advanced Certification from
As the region’s only tertiary referral medical center and Nebraska’s only Level II Trauma Center west of Kearney, Regional West offers care that spans more than 32 medical specialties provided by over 28 physician clinics. Its wide array of healthcare services is unmatched by most rural hospitals and allows area patients to receive the care they need close to home. Regional West’s full continuum of care, from emergency medicine and critical care to inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, is supported by a full complement of surgical services – general, vascular, orthopaedic, bariatric, and more – as well as an imaging services department that offers MRI, CT, PET, and nuclear medicine. Specialized healthcare services include:
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