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Passion for Health
Written By: Jenny King | Issue: 2016/09 - September
When you are living in this corner of Western North Carolina, it’s comforting to know an excellent healthcare facility, Highlands-Cashiers Hospital, an affiliate of Mission Health, is right at your door.
With qualified, professional staff like Radiology Manager Laura Ammons, you can feel secure knowing you don’t have to go all the way to Asheville or Charlotte to get excellent medical care.
Laura, a Cashiers native, began with the hospital when it was located in a renovated house in downtown Highlands. Over the past 28 years, she’s watched it transform into the high-tech, state-of-the-art facility it is today.
“Outpatient services are first rate. And our radiology department performs general X-rays, CT scans, mammography, bone density tests, MRIs, ultrasounds and nuclear medicine,” said Laura. She adds they are very excited about 3-D mammography equipment scheduled for 2017 if funding is acquired.
But the equipment is only as good as the technologists performing the exams and the radiologists who interpret the images.
Here’s where HCH excels. Many of their technologists have taken advanced level registry exams. When you come into the Imaging Department, the technologist performing your CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Mammography and Nuclear Medicine study is registered in that modality as well as Radiology.
“Our doctors are so refined, we have specialists within a specialty,” said Laura. “The turnaround time for ER radiology is about 30 minutes. A routine imaging report is back within two hours.” With those stats, they are the envy of the medical world.
To learn more about the services Highlands-Cashiers Hospital provides or to donate to their foundation call (828) 526-1361 or visit hchospital.org.
