CRESTVIEW GROWS - SO DOES THE HOSPITAL - SOME 2.2M RENOVATION WORTH

I guess some folks are taking this Crestview growth a little serious. Some $2.2M worth of seriousness. I hope you been following along as you see a City being transformed into something very dynamic. Some will say, out with the old and in with the new. One thing this City is doing right is the rebirth of the Downtown District. Much of this can be attributed to the Florida A&M University Pharmacy School in the Heart of the Downtown.

NORTH OKALOOSA MEDICAL CENTER
Hospital announces $2.2 million renovation
By PAULA KELLEY
Crestview News Bulletin 682-6524 paulak@crestviewbulletin.com  
CRESTVIEW — North Okaloosa Medical Center CEO David Fuller has announced a $2.2 million renovation under way for the hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab. “We hope the work to be completed by April,” Fuller said. “The equipment will bring our cardiac catheterization lab some of the best imaging and monitoring equipment that is available. “The upgraded technology includes computers, monitors and equipment — tables and tools, etc., plus remodeling of the room: new floor, walls, light fixtures and paint, in one of our two cardiac catheterization rooms,” he added. “There are also equipment upgrades for our imaging department that works directly with the cardiac catheterization process. Leann Holcombe, a registered nurse at the hospital, said the new gear will improve patient care. “The new equipment will enhance the quality of each image captured in the real-time activities of the heart and will give us advanced views of heart functions for diagnostic and interventional procedures, performed with the lowest possible patient dose of dye injection, or contrast,” Holcombe said. “The imaging equipment will be superior and we are very pleased.” The lab will provide diagnostic and interventional services typically found in larger hospitals, said physician liaison Amy Linares, who added that the lab will exceed the American Heart Association’s guideline of 90 minutes from admittance to the end of catheterization. “I think it is amazing that we have an average 21 minutes from door to balloon time,” Linares said.