Articles with the Tag: Providence St. Joseph Medical Center
News from Providence St. Joseph Medical Center POLSON — The National Rural Health Association has announced that Providence St. Joseph Medical Center has merited a Top 20 Best Practices in Quality designation across all critical access hospitals in the United States as determined by iVantage H...
POLSON — Providence St. Joseph Medical Center was recently awarded the 2014 Greenhealth Partner for Change Award by Practice Greenhealth for continuously improving and expanding upon their mercury elimination, waste reduction, recycling and source reduction programs. At a minimum, facilities a...
News from Cheerful Heart, Inc. POLSON — Cheerful Heart, Inc. has served Lake County cancer patients for 12 years. The Polson-based non-profit organization provides non-medical services at no charge to county cancer patients who are currently in treatment. Cheerful Heart services vary from t...
News from Providence Saint Joseph Rehab Department POLSON — Long-term health conditions are common in adults. Research shows 75 percent of the population older than 25 years in age will have at least one long-term medical condition. Occupational choices, or behaviors, can contribute directly to thei...
POLSON — Sometimes a caregiver feels like he or she is on an island, and not a particularly fun one; an isolated place where lack of sleep and no time for friends or a walk in the sunshine can seem like the rescue boat is sailing over the horizon. Coming to their rescue is the Powerful Tools f...
POLSON — Construction near the Mission Valley Aquatic Center in the Ridgewater Subdivision south of Polson has piqued local interest. The one project already in progress is the Kalispell Region Medical Clinic. Swanke Enterprises has begun construction and hopes to be completed this spring, wea...
POLSON — Providence St. Joseph Medical Center has been recognized as a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) by the National Council on Quality Assurance (NCQA). What, exactly, does that mean? NCQA sets specific standards for primary care practices to use in organizing care around patients, w...
News from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants POLSON — Tim Thornton, PA-C, a physician assistant who works at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, is one of only 108 certified physician assistants (PA-Cs) nationally to recently earn a specialty credential called a...
News from the Lake County Pachyderm Club POLSON — James Kiser, CEO of Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, will be the featured speaker at the Friday, Jan. 10 meeting of the Lake County Pachyderm Club. He will speak on the state of healthcare and St. Joseph’s position in regard to a new clini...
POLSON — It’s “chemical warfare,” and they distribute “the agents.” While this sounds like a covert operation, “they” are really registered nurses Lisa Bertoglio and Kathie Folts. They work at the Otto Klein Cancer Center Oncology Clinic at Providence ...
