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Employee Spotlight: Justin Back, Front Office Specialist
Justin Back served as a mental health technician supporting adult patients in the Mental Health department for nearly seven years when he decided to switch roles to serve a younger population.
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CRH Workforce Spotlight: Lab Molecular Team
The Lab Molecular Team – comprised of Medical Laboratory Scientists – is responsible for putting together and processing the COVID Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in-house tests. PCR is a technique used to amplify, or copy, small segments of DNA. After the team was trained in molecular testing, they started running an average of 50-80 patient tests per day. It reached up to 300 per day, and today it is between 200 and 250.
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Columbus Regional Health launches ION program for advanced lung care
The ION program is just a piece of the comprehensive lung disease and lung cancer diagnosis and treatment options available at Columbus Regional Health.
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Columbus Regional Health recognized statewide for service to infant and maternal health
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Columbus Regional Health was recognized by the Indiana Hospital Association (IHA), in partnership with Governor Eric J. Holcomb and State Health Commissioner Kris Box, M.D., FACOG, for its commitment to infant and maternal health through the second annual INspire Hospital of Distinction recognition program.
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Columbus Regional Health launches TAVR program for heart care
TAVR is used to treat a condition called aortic stenosis, which means the heart may have to work too hard to pump blood through the small valve opening to the rest of your body.
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CRH Workforce Spotlight: Nathaniel Diener – Advanced EMT
Nathaniel Diener is an Advanced EMT and has worked at CRH for just over seven years. Nathaniel works at each of the four EMS stations. He typically works nights, which he said is a time there are often transfers waiting to go to a variety of places.
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CRH Workforce Spotlight: Linda Robbins-Ping
Linda Robbins-Ping describes her role as a “Jack of all trades.” As a quality programs clinical assistant, she is “on the phone a lot,” following with patients after they have been seen in the ED, contacting patients who have tested positive for COVID after having a test at CRH, and working to schedule patients for routine exams.
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CRH Exec Spotlight: Grant Byers, Chief Financial Officer
Chief Financial Officer Grant Byers joined Columbus Regional Health in March after serving six years as CFO of a four-hospital health system in Valdosta, Georgia. Indiana is where he has spent most of his life and wanted to be, so when the opportunity arose to join CRH, he was glad to be returning home. “Coming back to Indiana was important,” he said.
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Columbus Regional Health initiates base-wage increase across health system
Pay ranges with minimum rates that are currently below $15 per hour will be adjusted to a new minimum of $15 or greater. Employees with current pay rates of less than $15 per hour will receive pay increases to ensure their pay rates are $15 or more.
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Columbus Regional conducting community health status survey
This Health Status Survey has been conducted every three years since 1996. It is a systematic, data-driven approach to determining the health status, behaviors and needs of residents in the service area of Columbus Regional Health.
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Four Sneaky Causes of Back Pain
Are you experiencing ongoing achiness or sudden and sharp back pain? When injury or heavy lifting isn’t to blame, consider these possible culprits.