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SIUSLAW NEWS | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2018 | 7A Santa to make visit to Florence Elks Lodge Santa Claus is coming to town on Saturday, Dec. 15, from noon to 2 p.m. for the Florence Elks Lodge #1858’s annual Children’s Christmas Party Extravaganza. This year there will be mu- sical entertainment, along with the children from Chil- dren’s Repertory of Oregon Workshops (CROW) per- forming some Christmas dances and skits. There will be a game show with McDonald’s gift cer- tificates as prizes, piñatas will be loaded with candies, gifts will be available to ev- ery child in attendance and cookies and ice cream will be served. And lodge members ful- ly expect a visit from Santa Claus, who has said that he would take time out from his busy schedule to visit Flor- ence and our children. All children are welcome. Florence Elks Lodge is at 1686 12th St. T HE S IUSLAW N EWS . COM “We can see better inside with this without going to CT.” The more medics can catch up front, the less additional test- ing they would be forced to do. Another new machine, the D-Spect cardiac scanner, is looking to save time for patients while they are getting scanned. The machine itself is brand new technology, with less than 100 units in the country currently used. It is used to scan images of heart and coronary arteries. The previous machine would require patients to lie still on a table for 60 minutes. “It’s hard to hold still for an hour, and the likelihood of motion or degradation of im- age quality based on time in- creased,” Goldblatt said. But the D-Spect test only takes 12 minutes and can be done with the patient in a re- clined chair. More comfortable for the patients, and less time RADIOLOGY from page 1A “An ultrasound, for many things, is like a gateway,” Gold- blatt said. “You come in, get an ultrasound, see this and this. Then you go to a different sys- tem and narrow down. This is a screening tool.” In the past, the image struc- ture wasn’t the best, and the ma- chine was limited in how deep it could look into tissue. This was particularly difficult for larger patients with larger waist sizes. “What happens in the past, you come here with feet pain, leg pain, numbness, blood clots,” Goldblatt said. “We do a study, can’t see it. What do you do you do then? Go to a CT scan.” Which is a more expensive test that would require another visit. “With these new machines, the depth is greater, how far you can see inside,” Goldblatt said. Get Results...List With Ed. Ed Kopilec Principal Broker 541 991-8630 Booth Island #1300 – Boat to your own island retreat and play on Siltcoos Lake all day. Fish for Salmon, Steelhead, Trout and Bass. Kayak the Siltcoos River down to the Pa- cific Ocean. Enjoy nature at its best, all from your front yard. 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WE HAVE IT ALL! ccb#55030 1780 Kingwood St. • 541-997-8526 PeaceHealth Peace Harbor Volunteers Everything we do we’re trying to make patient safety import- ant.” Other new changes to the department include new en- tertainment options for longer tests, including new entertain- ment systems and skylights for comfort, new air conditioning to keep heat radiated by the new machines down and new floor- ing and cabinetry. “We like the rooms to be comfortable for the patients,” Goldblatt said. PeaceHealth is also looking to expand the hours of the ra- diology department, with the hope that patients can get tested the same day as their visit. “The walk-in clinic is open until 7 p.m. on the weekends, and we would like to mirror those hours, too, to make it more streamlined,” Goldblatt said. This will allow the radiolo- gy technicians to see more pa- tients, which can total 100 a day. “We have about eight MRIs a day, 15 CTs, 12 mammograms and about 20 ultrasounds. You do the math. It adds up quick,” he said. “Then, for individual X-rays in the ER, they can see up to 40 patients a day. We’re al- most fully staffed in the clinic, so we’re getting patients over. The amount of wait time, and to get called back, has significantly been reduced. We anticipate be- ing able to see more paints in a day because everything is faster, and we don’t want patients to wait.” With expanded hours and new technology that was pre- viously unavailable, Goldblatt expects that patients will not have to travel out of town for as many procedures. “It’s hard when, in the win- ter time, you have to go over to get a scan,” he said. “We can’t do everything, but we can in- crease the amount of studies we can do. You don’t have to come back for follow up, and it saves stress.” While the $6 million price tag for the remodel is high, the project is not expected to in- crease patient service bills. The funds come from a system-wide capital budget, which funds yearly specialized projects in PeaceHealth’s institutions. “We’re a nonprofit organiza- tion, so we have to invest any money we make back into the system,” Goldblatt said. “The money is something we already have, so there won’t be any money or price changes. Every- thing we’re buying is high end, nothing low end. Our patients deserve it.” Christmas 30,000 $16,300 for the test. “That means we can increase our volume as well and we don’t have to wait around for patients to get appointments,” Goldblatt said. Patient comfort will also be a factor in the department’s new C-Arm, an imager that looks like a giant clamp. The mobile imager, which is used for cap- turing images of feet, ankles and smaller extremities, can actual- ly wrap around a patient while they’re in bed. This is particu- larly helpful for patients with a broken leg, who beforehand had to go to the traditional X-ray. Comfort also plays a factor in the department’s planned MRI machine upgrade, which will have a much wider opening. “People go into an MRI scan- ner and they’re claustrophobic,” Goldblatt said. “It’s right in front of your face. This is 72 centime- ters around. We really anticipate cutting down on claustrophobic patients.” The MRI is also more ac- curate, which will affect how much contrast doctors will have to administer to patients. “We don’t necessarily like giv- ing people contrast,” Goldblatt said. “It’s giving people medica- tion, and you try not to do that as much as possible. You can be allergic to it. This machine will allow us to image arteries much faster without contrast, then we had previously done before. Renal, arteries, legs, carotid ar- teries, arteries in your brain, all without getting contrast injec- tions.” Goldblatt pointed out that the new MRI would not be the to- tal end of using contrast, but it will greatly reduce the amount administration. The old MRI machine has now been retired, and the hos- pital is using a mobile unit from Texas while they remodel a room for the new MRI machine. The room itself takes time to build, considering the complex wiring involved and copper panels that are needing to line the inside of the walls. “The MRI is a magnetic ra- dio,” Goldblatt said. “If you have outside TVs and cellphones, there’s interference and it shows up on the images. So, we have to line everything with copper.” While the MRI does not use harmful ionizing radiation, other machines do, such as the new CT scanner they recently installed. “But it’s less-dose radiation,” Goldblatt said. “Everything we’re doing is trying to get less -dose radiation, because the standards are being changed. Best-Selling Author, Ellen Traylor, Owner/Publisher 541-999-5725 Sotheby’s, eBay Master Dealer and Appraiser for Discovery.com portholebooks.com • portholepublications.com
