Hospital remodeling continues

Work on the new addition at the Belmond Medical Center continues, in some areas, seven days per week. BMC Administrator Nancy Gabrielson told the city council April 16 that it will be about another month before construction is complete.

She said the biggest challenge will be the final transfering of patients and services from the old section to the new section. One minute we must be ready to see a patient in the old emergency room, and the next minute we will have to be ready to accept an emergency in the new location. There cant be any down time in between. The same goes for patients. We will wheel them from an old room to a new room, and everything has to be ready and working. Timing is everything, and we are doing a lot of planning, practicing and coordinating, Gabrielson remarked.

Business at the hospital and clinic continues to move at a rapid pace. Statistics in most every category are ahead of one year ago.

Here are some numbers comparing February 2011 to February 2012.

Patient days 90 240

Surgeries 22 23

ER visits 102 131

Clinic visits 1,252 1,456

Cost per day top operate $33,489

Revenue for the month $1,928,344

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Hospital remodeling continues