Sumner Community Club

Programs: Community memorial hospital (cmh) medical clinic continued to serve sumner, ia and the surrounding area in the year 2014. Cmh clinic was staffed with 4 providers. The cmh clinic now has two nurse practitioners and two physicians. Patients were served in many capacities including, but not limited to, well child visits, immunizations, routine pediatric care, shared maternity care, wound care, therapeutic injections and manipulation treatments. Patients ranged from newborn to geriatric. A 50-mile radius of sumner was served with a total patient volume of 8,870 for 2014. In addition to clinic visits, our providers continue their service to surrounding nursing homes with patients seen monthly at hillcrest home in sumner, maplecrest manor in fayette and tripoli nursing & rehab in tripoli. Other services to the community were physicals for area firefighters and ems agencies and post-job offer physicals for two local businesses. Providers continue to take call for the emergency department on a regular scheduled basis throughout each month. Clinic staff continued to go to an area bank the first tuesday of each month to offer free blood pressure checks to anyone on a walk-in basis. Providers avidly precept for students various programs with allen college in waterloo, ia and kaplan university in cedar falls, ia taking advantage of this in 2014. The clinic hours are monday through friday starting at 7 am and ending at 5 pm.

the cmh emergency department served 1,352 patients in 2014. This is an increase of 117 patient visits from 1,235 visits in 2013. The number of physician hours spent in the emergency department decreased from 2,655 in 2013 to 2,540 in 2014. In 2014, the emergency department implemented cqi projects for documentation of collection of ua, nursing assessments, suicide assessment and stop times for iv fluids. The educational focus for 2014 once again centered on monthly trauma training tracc's provided by hennepin county hospital. Other areas of education were the continuation of monthly mock codes, poison center webcast, mandatory reporting, continuous quality improvement program (cqi), department scheduling for pharmacy, burn care update, hie placement of umbilical line and management of oxygen and post resuscitation stabiliation in the newborn. Nursing competencies included: bladder scanner, stroke box, cqi monitoring, documentation and outpatient order processes.

acute nursing had 359 admissions in 2014. Cmh utilizes a company called mckesson's interqual for qualifying patients to determine if they meet inpatient admission criteria. The average length of stay for acute was 62. 00 hours. This is well below the 96 hours threshold for critical access. There were a total of 363 acute patient days and 804 swing bed days in 2014.

various inpatient and other health care services.