Cardiac Rehab is a personalized treatment program that helps heart patients live longer and healthier lives. The program helps individuals recover from a cardiac event and prevent a second one as well as help manage peripheral artery disease (PAD).
For over 60 years, Meade District Hospital has been providing comprehensive, patient-focused, inpatient, outpatient and emergency care. In each of our service areas, we remain dedicated to friendly, high-quality care and state-of-the-art medical technology.
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Cardiac Rehab
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Benefits
According to the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) the benefits of a Cardiac Rehab program can include:
- Live longer and lessen your chances of another cardiac event.
- Control heart disease symptoms such as chest pain or shortness of breath.
- Stop or reverse damage to the blood vessels in your heart.
- Lessen the physical and emotional effects of heart disease.
- Improve your stamina and strength, getting you back to your usual activities, including work, hobbies and regular excercise.
- Improve your confidence and wellbeing.
Recent scientific studies have shown that people who complete a cardiac rehabilitation program can increase their life expectancy by up to five years.
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Who Can Participate
Anyone with a doctor's referral and has had a cardiac event such as:
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack)
- Heart Cath/Angioplasty
- Stent Placement
- Heart Transplant
- Open Heart Surgery (Coronary Bypass or Valve Surgery)
- Stable Angina
- Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) If you experience leg pain when excercising, see your primary care provider to check for possible PAD.
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Meeting Your Needs
Our Cardiac Rehab program is designed to meet your specific needs through:
- Risk Factor Assessments
- Personalized Excercise Program that progresses from a structured, monitored program to a more independent, less monitored home program
- Diet Instruction
- Education focused on lifestyle changes and disease management
- Emotional Support
- Assistance and training to monitor blood pressure, lipids/cholesterol and diabetes
- Facilitate communication with your doctors about your progress
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Meeting Your Goals
Your personalized program will help you meet your goals including:
- Increase functional capacity (the ability to carry out activities)
- Reduce risk factors
- Improve the quality of life
- Return to work
- Improve outlook and emotional stability
- Increase knowledge about the disease
- Increase self-management
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Getting Started
For more information, call Meade District Hospital at (620) 873-2141 and ask to speak with the Cardiopulmonary Rehab Director, Jessica Alexander, RRT.
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GYN Surgical Services
Dr. Patricia Miller, D.O., FACOG, is a board-certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist, Surgeon, and Fertility Specialist. Dr. Miller provides care to women ranging from:
- Well Woman Exams
- Establishment of Care Exams
- 3D Mammography
- Cervical LEEP Excision or Conization
- D&C
- Diagnostic & Operative Laparoscopy
- Endometriosis Surgery
- Female Incontinence Surgery
- Hysterectomy
- Novasure Endometrial Ablation
- Prophylactic Removal of Ovaries
- Routine Vulvar Surgery
- Tubal Ligation
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Laboratory
Our laboratory department works closely with physicians in the surrounding areas as well as throughout the state. Test results can be mailed or faxed directly to physicians, which allows patients to undergo tests close to home even if their physician is outside of the community. Most testing is completed within hours, but when a test requires a special reference laboratory, the results are typically available within 2-3 days. All normal test results are also available to patients through our patient portal.
All of our laboratory technologists and technicians are specially trained and certified. In addition, they maintain high quality control standards for each test they perform to ensure absolute accuracy and reliability.
Call Meade District Hospital at (620) 873-2141 and ask for Tammy Bird, Director of the Laboratory Department, for a comprehensive service menu to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of various illnesses.
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Physical Therapy
Our mission at Meade District Hospital Physical Therapy is to get our patients back to doing what they want to be doing. Our philosophy embraces both empowering and educating our patients when their lives have been disrupted by the aging process, injury, or a disability. We offer therapy for a wide range of services. We focus to serve our patients by addressing their physical, emotional, and functional abilities and needs to improve their quality of life and to meet their goals. You will find the help you need at Meade District Hospital Physical Therapy!
Scheduling an Appointment
Please call 620-873-7572.Your First Visit
After checking in, your first visit will last approximately 1 to 1 1/2 hours. It will consist of an evaluation and development of a treatment plan to improve your musculoskeletal or neurological condition. We recommend comfortable clothing and footwear as therapy sessions involve exercise, stretching and strengthening. Shorts are preferable for knee problems.
Please print and complete this form to bring on your first visit:
Physical Therapy First Visit Form-
Health and wellness is a team approach. It takes a team to fulfill a dream. That is what I find at Artesian Valley Health System Physical Therapy. Kim Skinner and her staff work together with you to maintain or improve your body's ability to move forward restoring or improving function. Thus far, I have rehabilitated a knee ACL graft, turf toe and rotator cuff surgery. Currently, we are adapting to challenges a chronic illness can bring. I would recommend AVHS Physical Therapy department to anyone serious about healing.
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We have the best physical therapy department in this part of the state. They know what they're doing and have helped me a lot since I got hurt.
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The PT crew we have here are on top of things and very professional. They stick with you until you reach your goal.
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I think they literally had to kick me out of rehab! Because I did so well and they're so good in their physical therapy department that I didn't want to quit!
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Pulmonary Rehabilitation
What is Pulmonary Rehabilitation?
Pulmonary rehabilitation is a supervised program that includes exercise training, disease, and medication education, and breathing techniques for individuals who have certain lung conditions that prevent them from doing daily living activities. Pulmonary rehabilitation will help you manage your disease, increase your stamina, and decrease your breathlessness.
At Meade District Hospital, our Pulmonary Rehabilitation Director will educate you on how to pace your breathing with activities and prepare an exercise program just for you. The exercises will begin at a level that you can handle. The amount of time you exercise will be increased through time and the level of difficulty will change based on your ability. As your muscles get stronger, you will exercise longer with less breathlessness and exhaustion.
Who can partcipate?
The admission criteria for the program requires a physician order. Patients who benefit from pulmonary rehabilitation include those who have or have had:
- Asthma
- Bronchiectasis
- Chronic Bronchitis
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
- Emphysema
- Interstitial Fibrosis
- Lung cancer or surgery
- Lungreductionsurgery
- Lung transplant
- Pneumonia
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Sarcoidosis
Patients are assessed and tested for placement in the program. After the initial assessment, a monitored exercise and education program will begin.
The benefits of Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Pulmonary Rehabilitation may improve your quality of life by:
- Reducing shortness of breath
- Increasing exercise tolerance
- Promoting a sense of well-being
- Decrease hospitalizations
- Reducing emotional stress, depression, and anxiety
- Decreasing blood pressure along with improving cholesterol and triglyceride levels
Although Pulmonary Rehabilitation can't cure lung disease, it can be of great benefit.
What our Pulmonary Rehabilitation program offers
Educational Programs
The education classes will provide information about:
- Breathing retraining
- Diet, nutrition, and weight management
- Importance of exercise
- Medications, including drug action, side effects, using an inhaler, and self-care techniques
- Strategies for managing breathing problems
- Symptom assessment and knowledge about when to seek medical treatment
- Understanding and using oxygen therapy
Monitored and Supervised Exercise
A physical activity plan is tailored to your needs. Exercise helps improve endurance and muscle strength.
Psychosocial Support
People with chronic lung diseases are more prone to depression, anxiety, and other emotional problems. By participating in a rehab program and gaining control of your health can help lower your stress, anxiety, and depression levels.
The Cardiopulmonary Director at Meade District Hospital, Jessica Alexander, RRT, would be glad to visit with you about our Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program. Call Meade District Hospital at (620) 873-2141.
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Radiology
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Radiology
Radiology Services:
- X-Ray
- CT
- Mobile MRI
- DEXA
- Digital Radiography
- Nuclear Medicine
- Mammography
- Ultrasound including Vascular and Echocardiography
Call Meade District Hospital at (620) 873-2141 and ask for the Radiology Department for information about our radiology services.
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X-Ray
In 2015, MDH installed a new OTC12 Digital Radiographic System in the Radiology Department.
Patients will benefit from faster exam times and a comfortable, safe experience during their x-ray procedures. The advanced digital detector technology provides high resolution images while reducing the amount of radiation per exposure by more than half from older technology.Hospital X-Ray Technologists also have the flexibility to utilize the digital detector in other areas of the hospital where digital technology isn’t yet available such as the emergency room, OR, or patient rooms. In these cases, a portable x-ray machine is utilized with the digital receptor for patients unable to come to the Radiology Department. -
CT Scans
If you need more information than an x-ray can provide, we have a 16-slice Toshiba CT scanner available 7 days a week.
A computerized tomography (CT) scan combines a series of X-ray images taken from different angles and uses computer processing to create cross-sectional images, or slices, of the bones, blood vessels and soft tissues inside your body.
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NEW 3D Mammography
Benefits of our 3D mammography include:
- Most accurate breast cancer screening available.
- Detects more cancers at earlier stages than standard 2D.
- Reduces the need for additional testing or recalls.
We strive to make mammograms as comfortable as possible!
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Mobile MRI
You no longer need to travel if your physician orders an MRI. Every Wednesday we are able to provide MRI services via a traveling service. This is a great option for diagnosing internal issues without the risks of radiation. With a physician order, you can schedule your MRI appointment by calling 620-873-2141.
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Nuclear Medicine
In 2016, MDH purchased a new GE Millennium camera capable of doing heart studies, thyroid scans, bone scans, and hida (gall bladder) scans. This technology compliments our other diagnostic tests. Where an MRI or a CT scan shows us what an organ looks like, nuclear medicine is able to show us how that organ is actually functioning. This can be incredibly important when diagnosing some types of heart problems.
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Ultrasound
Our Phillips ultrasound machine is available 4 days a week Mon-Wed and Fri, and is capable of Echocardiograms, vascular ultrasounds, upper abdominal ultrasound, testicular ultrasound, renal ultrasound and bladder ultrasounds.
The sonogram/ultrasound technology uses high-frequency sound waves to make images of the internal structures and organs.
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Bone Density Testing
With our GE Lunar machine, we are able to offer DEXA scans to screen for osteoporosis and predict your risk of bone fractures. This can also be referred to as an osteogram, bone density test, and bone densiometry. It is not to be confused with nuclear bone scans which we also offer.
DEXA scans are available Monday-Friday.
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Surgery
Meet Our Specialty SurgeonsWhen you have surgery with us, you have a team of specially trained professionals to care for you. In addition to our talented Surgeons and Anesthetists, our surgery team includes Registered Nurses, Operating Room Technicians, and Sterile Processing Technicians. All with a focus on providing safe, quality, and personalized care.
- General Surgery
- Lumpectomy, Colonoscopy, EGDs, Tubal Ligations, Hernia Repair, Gall Bladder, Hemorrhoidectomy, and more
- GYN
- Cervical Leep Excision or Conization
- D&C
- Diagnostic & Operative Laparoscopy
- Endometriosis Surgery
- Female Incontinence Surgery
- Hysterectomy
- Novasure Endometrial Ablation
- Prophylactic Removal of Ovaries
- Routine Vulvar Surgery
- Tubal Ligation
- Orthopedic
- Total Hip Replacement via anterior approach
- Total Knee Replacement (patient-specific)
- Total Shoulder Replacement (patient-specific)
- ACL Reconstruction
- Rotator Cuff Repair
- Sports-related injuries
- Radio Frequency Ablations for Pain
- Pain Management
- Cervical, Thoracic & Lumba Epidural Steroid Injections
- Sacroicial Joint, Facet Joint & Hip Injections
- Trigger Point Injections for Muscle Tension
- Occipital Nerve Blocks for Migraine Headaches
- Urology
Call Meade District Hospital at (620) 873-2141 and ask the Surgery Department for more information.
- General Surgery
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Wound Care
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Wound Care
Each wound is treated individually. Treatments are specific to the patient as well as to the cause and type of the wound. A comprehensive treatment approach is used between Wound care, physicians, surgeons, podiatrists, radiology and nurses to help wounds heal faster and prevent them from recurring. In severe cases, treatment is focused on saving as much of the limb as possible instead of amputation.
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Complex and Nonhealing Wounds
Wound care at Meade District Hospital provides personalized diagnosis and treatments for the following conditions:
- Arterial wounds
- Venous insufficiency & ulcers
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Skin tears
- Nonhealing surgical wounds
- Secondary wounds occuring after cancer treatments
- Burns
- Pressure injuries
- Bed sores - all stages and all types
- Dry gangrene or tissue death
- Surgical incisions
- Traumatic injury wounds
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Symptoms
Contact Wound care at Meade District Hospital if you have a wound or scab that:
- Has not healed or is healing very slowly
- The are around it is swollen, warm, red or painful
- Comes and goes in the same place
- Continus to seep, bleed or drain
- You are experiencing leg pain or swelling
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Diagnosis
Wound healing stats with the right diagnosis. We diagnose each would for its type and cause. Using a variety of tests, we can determine the diagnosis and treatment options. Diagnosis tests include Dopper Testing and ABI (Ankle-brachial index).
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Personalized Treatments
Our personalized treatments consist of:
- Appropriate bandage systems
- Pain control
- Helping the patient feel as socially comfortable as possible
Specific Treatments Include:
- Total Contact Casting the Gold Standard Treatment for Diabetic Foot Ulcers (A method only availabe at 6% of treating facilites.)
- VAC (Vacuum Assisted Closure)
- Venus Compression Bandage Systems
- MDT
- Allografts
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Contact
Wound Care at Meade District Hospital is provided by Cody Keith, WCC. Cody is certified in Wound Care by the Wound Care Education Institute.
Call Meade District Hospital at (620) 873-2141 and ask for Cody Keith or Wound Care.
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