Many people with potentially dangerous vascular disease may not have any warning signs. Vascular disease primarily affects people over 55 and is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. It is important to have vascular screening so problems can be identified and treated before causing harm.
Decatur County Dynamites 4-H Club stopped by the week before Christmas with blankets for DCH patients and gifts for all patients and staff.
Decatur County Hospital employees held a “Kleenex and Hand Sanitizer Drive” last week. Infection Preventionist Jessica Sullivan and Paramedic Jerry Breneman presented them to both the Central Decatur and Lamoni Schools on Friday as way to promote awareness for preventing and reducing infection during cold and flu season!
Decatur County health agencies conducted a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) Community forum on Wednesday, November 18 at 5:30 at the Leon Golf and Country Club with 50 people in attendance.
On the morning of October 31, 2014 a young woman rushed through the Emergency Room doors of Decatur County Hospital (DCH) shouting, “I’m think I’m in labor!” Seairra Stephenson, the expectant mother, was pregnant with twins and scheduled for an OB appointment later that morning in Des Moines; she did not make it.
Decatur County Hospital, Public Health, Community Health Centers of Southern Iowa, and CROSS Mental Health Region are hosting a community forum on Wednesday, November 18 at the Leon Golf and Country Club for the Community Health Needs Assessment.
The Accreditation Association for Hospital/Health Systems came to Decatur County Hospital on Friday, September 18 to present hospital staff with the official certificate of accreditation that will be displayed in the waiting area.
Decatur County Hospital, Decatur County Public Health, Community Health Centers of Southern Iowa, and Decatur County Community Services are partnering together to conduct a community health needs assessment.
There is now a community “Little Free Library” located at Decatur County Hospital by the Emergency Department! Hospital staff will be getting it all stocked up with our favorite reads and anyone in the community is welcome to “check out” a book by leaving a book for someone else to read.
Beginning in the fall of 2014, the Decatur County Prayer Shawl Ministry has been hand making and providing prayer shawls to patients at Decatur County Hospital. The ministry is a spiritually driven, community based project to provide warmth, comfort, joy, peace, and healing to patients that are weary and hurting.
