Maury Regional Hospital Combines Top-Notch Technology with Compassion
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Providing the best possible care in the most compassionate manner is the hallmark of Maury Regional Hospital.
“As health-care providers, the physicians and staff at Maury Regional Hospital touch the lives of families in countless ways every single day,” says hospital CEO Robert Otwell.
In operation since 1953, this county-operated hospital continues to grow and add the latest in health-care technology and specialties.
In 2007, the hospital expanded its diagnostic services to include a new, state-of-the-art, 64-slice Volume Computed Tomography system. The LightSpeed® VCT is the world’s first system of its kind. The hospital now offers an innovative way for its physicians to obtain the information they need to diagnose diseases and life-threatening illnesses, including cardiovascular disease, stroke and chest pain. Physicians are able to capture images of a beating heart in five heartbeats and of an organ in one second, much faster than conventional, multi-slice CT scanners. This sophisticated technology complements the hospital’s existing magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, mammography, nuclear medicine and X-ray diagnostic imaging tools.
“The new VCT is just our latest advancement in the area of heart care,” Otwell says.
Maury Regional’s heart center has expanded its cardiovascular labs and centralized diagnostic testing and rehabilitation, and received the national 2007 Volunteer Hospital Association Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence in Cardiac Care. A partnership with Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville has allowed the hospital to expand its cardiothoracic surgical services.
“Our partnership with Vanderbilt to provide heart surgery, teamed with skilled medical and interventional cardiologists and state-of-the-art technology, have resulted in Maury Regional Hospital offering the residents of southern Middle Tennessee outstanding care through our heart center,” Otwell says.
The process of becoming an accredited chest pain center is under way, he says, and 2008 will see the renovation of the hospital’s surgery department as well as the opening of a wound care center.
The hospital completed a $10.5 million expansion of its emergency room in 2007, tripling its size and creating 32 individual treatment rooms. With more than 44,000 ER visits annually, registration procedures have been streamlined with the implementation of bedside registration technology.
Of note is the hospital’s orthopedics department, which was recognized by HealthGrades in 2007 with a five-star rating – the highest possible – for hip fracture repair. The department offers a wide array of orthopedic services, from outpatient procedures to total joint replacement. The team of board-certified orthopedic surgeons on the medical staff has more than 100 years of combined experience performing orthopedic procedures.
More than 1,600 babies were delivered at MRH in 2007, and new mothers could rest easy knowing that the hospital’s new eight-bed neonatal intensive care unit was well supplied and staffed in the event of an emergency.
Maury Regional Hospital is a 275-bed facility with 177 physicians representing 35 specialties, employing more than 2,000 people, with a market area serving 275,000 residents.
Story by Betsy Williams
Photo by Brian McCord
