GREENE: Boyd Hospital updating – inside and out
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By Carmen Ensinger
Thomas H. Boyd Memorial Hospital in Carrollton, and the buildings that are part of the hospital campus, are seeing some changes – both inside and out.
The changes outside include a new roof on the hospital itself and a new entryway to the Rural Health Clinic located across the street, plus new asphalt on the parking lot and the adjacent parking areas to the east of the hospital.
The additions inside the hospital include a variety of new equipment and the ability to offer new services. Funding for these projects has come from a combination of a USDA loan and COVID money the hospital received.
Hospital Administrator Debbie Campbell explained about the new equipment that the hospital has received.
“We have gotten in some new beds in the in-patient area and we are going to be getting some new lifts at the hospital which are used to protect the patients,” she said. “They help with the patient when they are in bed and they can’t scoot themselves up. Instead of the nurses lifting them up, this is a machine that pulls them up.”
They also received some new ventilators so should a patient require ventilation, such as those used on COVID patients who couldn’t breathe on their own, they would be available.
They have also added quite a bit of new equipment to their lab which will allow them to do more testing in-house.
“Prior to this new equipment, we were sending out all of our cultures and paying another company to do them,” Campbell said. “Three-fourths of them come back negative. With this new equipment, we can test them right here and if they come back negative, we know faster and if they come back positive, then we go ahead and send them out and still get them back as quick as before, but we are saving the hospital a lot of money by being able to do it right here and only send the ones out for a second opinion.”
Some of the other testing they are now able to do in house now thanks to the new lab equipment include: rapid screenings for COVID as well screening for RSV in children.
“We can do all of that in-house now,” Campbell said. “Hopefully, we are showing people that we can do a lot of stuff locally and keep them here without having to go out of the county.”
Soon, everyone will know what they have to offer when their new digital signs come in.
“Hopefully, within the next two weeks, our new digital signs will come in,” Campbell said. “One will be installed at our new Wellness Center and one here at the hospital and they will be able to tell people what is going on at each of the respective facilities.”
Speaking of the Wellness Center, Campbell said she is shooting for possibly a Dec. 1 opening date for the Wellness Center.
“We are still waiting on a few pieces of equipment to come in so they can complete the bathroom,” Campbell said. “The rubber flooring can’t be put down until everyone is done fixing everything so everything has to be completed before you put that flooring down. So it is really just down to a few minor little things. They just have to put the sinks in and hook the water up. I think people are going to be really impressed when they see it in there.”
