Hillsdale Hospital ranks among the country’s top 100 rural hospitals, according to a new report. The Chartis Center for Rural Health assessed hospitals on the quality and efficiency of care as well as the quantity of local patients treated. It released the results on Feb. 11. Hillsdale Hospital President and CEO JJ Hodshire attributed their...
Hillsdale pre-med students may soon have additional opportunities to volunteer as phlebotomists at Hillsdale Hospital through GOAL’s new Hospital Volunteering program. The GOAL program, run by junior McKenna Good, will train students to work in Hillsdale Hospital’s outpatient department drawing blood. “They needed students to be trained in phlebotomy for a couple of weeks, and...
Hillsdale Hospital is the owner of a new state-of-the-art mammography system that could lead to earlier cancer diagnoses. The new system, the Senographe Pristina 3D Mammography System, produces sharper images of breast tissue, allowing doctors to see potential cancer masses sooner, according to Molly Craig, an R.N. at Hillsdale Hospital. She added that the process...
Hillsdale Hospital is once again allowing people to visit hospital patients and nursing home residents, though in a limited capacity, following a continued decrease in the rate of new COVID-19 cases across Hillsdale County, according to Hillsdale Hospital Director of Marketing and Development Rachel Lott. Lott said in a Jan. 19 press release that the...
Hillsdale Hospital was named one of the 100 top rural and community hospitals in the U.S. in Becker’s Hospital Review and received a $45,000 incumbent worker training grant from the state this past month. The Michigan Works Southeast grant will fund training for the Obstetrics unit on a new fetal monitoring system, training to update...