News

Whether the headline is about exponential growth in staff and services, receiving an award for digital innovation, or being recognized for excellence in patient safety, the real story is our commitment to you and your family.

• Jul 09 2020

  Memorial Home Health Team Recognized

  The Home Health Department within Memorial Health was recently recognized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for achieving two different rankings for their work with and medical care of in-home patients.

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• Jun 22 2020

  Memorial Health Updates Visitor Policies

  Memorial Health has announced it will implement several visitation changes at Memorial Hospital, Memorial Medical Group practices, and Memorial Urgent Care locations, noting the organization continues to frequently evaluate and adjust these policies based on current medical conditions and guidance.

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• Jun 12 2020

  Memorial Wound Care Gets National Award

  Based on its stellar patient satisfaction levels and healing outcomes, Memorial Wound Care was recently recognized with the Center of Distinction award by Healogics®, Memorial’s partner to provide highly specialized treatment for chronic wounds.

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• May 26 2020

  Medical Staff Awards Scholarships

  Seven high school seniors who live in Union County and who plan to study health-related college majors received $1,000 Memorial Hospital Medical Staff Scholarships at recent high school award ceremonies:

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• May 18 2020

  Memorial Receives an ‘A’ for Patient Safety

  Memorial Hospital was awarded an ‘A’ from The Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2020 Hospital Safety Grade. The designation recognizes Memorial’s efforts in protecting patients from harm and meeting the highest safety standards in the United States. The Leapfrog Group is a national organization committed to improving health care quality and safety for consumers and purchasers. The Safety Grade assigns an A, B, C, D, or F grade to hospitals across the country based on their performance in preventing medical errors, infections, and other harms among patients in their care.

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• May 15 2020

  Hawkins Joins Memorial Health Board

  Memorial Health has welcomed the appointment of a new board member, Kent Hawkins, DDS. Appointed by the Union County Commissioners, Hawkins will serve a six-year term for the seat formerly held by Neal Handler and will take an active role on the eight-member volunteer Board of Trustees who govern the path of Memorial Health.

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