X-rays, lab work available at SCHC in CJ
From our weekly issue dated December 5, 2007
Illinois Valley residents can now stay close to home for X-rays or lab work, as the Three Rivers Imaging & Lab Outpatient Center, located in the same building as Siskiyou Community Health Center (SCHC), is open to anyone, said Asante Health System.
“You don’t have to be seeing one of the doctors at SCHC,” said Ed Agricola, laboratory site manager for Three Rivers Community Hospital (TRCH). “If your doctor requests that you get an X-ray or lab work, you can come here.”
Walk-in patients “always are welcome, and it is unnecessary to schedule appointments for either X-rays or lab draws,” said Asante.
Added Rod Graham, manager of imaging at TRCH, “It’s our goal to benefit people in Illinois Valley by bringing these services from the hospital to Cave Junction. “This will save a lot of people a 50-mile or more round-trip.” With the price of gasoline these days, it’s not only a convenience, but a real savings,” Graham noted.
He said that the X-ray machines are of the same quality with a staff that works to the same high standards as TRCH. Additionally, the X-ray machines are all “digital capture,” meaning that there is no film to develop, and the images are transferred automatically to the hospital’s picture archiving system.
“If you hurt your hand and your doctor says to go get an X-ray, you don’t have to go to the hospital,” said Graham. “You can go right to the Three Rivers Outpatient Center and get the same level of service without going to Grants Pass.”
The same is true for lab work at the outpatient center, noted Agricola. “Our staff in Cave Junction consists of certified phlebotomists, and all lab work in delivered twice a day to the hospital, so your doctor will get results quickly.”
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