Sky Lakes Medical Center

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Sky Lakes Medical Center
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Sky Lakes Medical Center
Geography
Location2865 Daggett Avenue, Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States
Coordinates 42°15′14.52″N121°47′04.01″W / 42.2540333°N 121.7844472°W / 42.2540333; -121.7844472
Organization
Care system Community-based non-profit
Hospital type General, Surgical, Teaching
Affiliated university Oregon Health & Science University
Services
Emergency department Level III trauma center
Beds176 [1]
Helipad (FAA LID: 9OR3)
History
Founded1968
Links
Website skylakes.org
Lists Hospitals in Oregon

Sky Lakes Medical Center (formerly Merle West Medical Center) [2] is a 176-bed hospital located in Klamath Falls, Oregon, United States. Sky Lakes is also a teaching hospital affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University Medical School through the Cascades East Rural Family Medicine Residency Program. It is a community-owned medical center that serves the healthcare needs of an area of approximately 10,000 square miles (26,000 km2) in Oregon and northern California. [1] The hospital was founded in 1965 and incorporated in 1968.

Klamath Falls, Oregon City in Oregon, United States

Klamath Falls is a city in and the county seat of Klamath County, Oregon, United States. The city was originally called Linkville when George Nurse founded the town in 1867. It was named after the Link River, on whose falls the city was sited. The name was changed to Klamath Falls in 1893. The population was 20,840 at the 2010 census. The city is on the southeastern shore of the Upper Klamath Lake and about 25 miles (40 km) north of the California–Oregon border.

A teaching hospital or university hospital is a hospital or medical center that provides medical education and training to future and current health professionals and that is involved in medical research. Teaching hospitals are often affiliated with medical schools and work closely with medical students throughout their period of matriculation, and especially during their clerkship (internship) years. In most cases, teaching hospitals also offer Graduate Medical Education (GME)/ physician residency programs, where medical school graduates train under a supervising (attending) physician to assist with the coordination of care.

Oregon Health & Science University university in the United States of America

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is a public university in Oregon with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland, Oregon. The institution was founded in 1887 as the University of Oregon Medical Department and later became the University of Oregon Medical School. In 1974, the campus became an independent, self-governed institution called the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, combining state dentistry, medicine, nursing, and public health programs into a single center. It was renamed Oregon Health Sciences University in 1981 and took its current name in 2001, as part of a merger with the Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI), in Hillsboro. In addition, the university has several partnership programs including a joint PharmD Pharmacy program with Oregon State University in Corvallis.

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Sky Lakes Medical Center provides a birthing center, Blood Bank, Cardiac Catherization Lab, General - Acute Care, Intensive Care Unit, Computerized Tomography Scan, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Mammography & Radiology/Diagnostic-Imaging/MRI/X-Ray, Nuclear Medicine, Occupational Therapy, Orthopedics, Outpatient Services, Radiation Therapy, Wellness/Health&Fitness Center. [3] The hospital is equipped with a FAA LID: 9OR3 Heliport on its campus.

Coronary catheterization minimally invasive procedure to access the coronary circulation and blood filled chambers of the heart using a catheter

A coronary catheterization is a minimally invasive procedure to access the coronary circulation and blood filled chambers of the heart using a catheter. It is performed for both diagnostic and interventional (treatment) purposes.

Sky Lakes Medical Center Heliport is a private heliport located two miles northwest of Klamath Falls in Klamath County, Oregon, United States.

Besides patient care, Sky Lakes also carries out medical research and offers practicum positions for family medicine residents and nursing students through its affiliation with the Oregon Health & Science University.

Location

Sky Lakes Medical Center is located adjacent to the Oregon Institute of Technology in the northeast part of Klamath Falls. [4] The hill lies on the southeast shore of the Upper Klamath Lake, accessed through U.S. Route 97. The hospital has a parking structure and three parking lots, the main lot being served by a shuttle service that ferry patients and visitors between their vehicles and the medical center. The Hospital is served by two Basin Transit Service bus routes. It also has an ambulance bay and a helicopter landing pad.

Oregon Institute of Technology

The Oregon Institute of Technology is a public polytechnic university in Oregon with a residential campus in Klamath Falls, Oregon, an urban campus in Wilsonville, Oregon, and additional locations in Salem and Seattle. Oregon Tech provides a total of 32 degree programs in engineering, health technologies, management, communication, psychology and applied sciences with a total of 37 majors. Almost all students complete externships, co-ops, or other hands-on training inside and outside the classroom.

Upper Klamath Lake lake in the United States of America

Upper Klamath Lake is a large, shallow freshwater lake east of the Cascade Range in south-central Oregon in the United States. The largest body of fresh water by surface area in Oregon, it is approximately 25 miles (40 km) long and 8 miles (13 km) wide and extends northwest from the city of Klamath Falls. It sits at an average elevation of 4,140 feet (1,260 m).

U.S. Route 97 in the U.S. state of Oregon is a major north–south United States highway which runs from the California border, south of Klamath Falls, to the Washington border on the Columbia River, between Biggs Junction, Oregon and Maryhill, Washington. Other than the northernmost stretch, US 97 is known as The Dalles-California Highway. In May 2009, Oregon Senate passed a bill to rename US 97 as "World War II Veterans Historic Highway".

History

In the late 1950s a citizen task force in Klamath County outlined the future healthcare needs of the region and with a successful fund-drive constructed what is now Sky Lakes Medical Center, opening in October 1965. In 1968, the hospital became a member of the American Hospital Association. It wasn't until the 1970s that the name was changed to Merle West Medical Center. The hospital changed its name to Sky Lakes Medical Center in May 2007. [1]

American Hospital Association organization

The American Hospital Association (AHA) is a professional association that seeks to promote quality health care provision by hospitals and health care networks through public policy and providing information about health care and health administration to health care providers and the public. Founded in 1898 with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D.C., the AHA hosts a Resource Center with over 47,000 books on health care and maintains a Health Planning and Administration (HEALTH) database that provides current information on health care unrelated to clinical treatment. Membership includes close to 5,000 organizations and 43,000 individuals.

Services

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Sky Lakes Medical Center campus

The Emergency Department has 23 beds. Patients are usually referred to the hospital by their doctors or clinics for specialized care, but may also be admitted through the emergency department. Sky Lakes Medical Center reported 6,112 acute admissions in 2010 for a total of 20,738 patient days and a 3.39 average length of stay. [5] That same year the hospital reported 6,741 surgical procedures and 23,248 emergency room visits.

An admission note is part of a medical record that documents the patient's status, reasons why the patient is being admitted for inpatient care to a hospital or other facility, and the initial instructions for that patient's care.

Length of stay (LOS) is the duration of a single episode of hospitalization. Inpatient days are calculated by subtracting day of admission from day of discharge.

Sky Lakes medical laboratory reported 395,941 laboratory tests and assays in 2010, while the medical imaging department reported 28,429 X-ray exams, 8,872 ultrasounds and 16,507 MRI and CT scans. [5] Physical therapy reported 11,382 procedures in 2010 and the home health nursing program reported 814 nursing episodes. [5]

Sky Lakes Medical Center sponsors several annual community health-related activities, including the "Living Well" community health fair with more than 50 exhibitors providing information and resources for the community, providing free eye, ear, blood glucose and cholesterol screenings, as well as blood pressure checks, body mass index readings and lung-function tests. The event usually provides car seat checks and medication evaluations also. [6]

Funding

Sky Lakes Medical Center is partially funded by the Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1985 that adheres to the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy standards of professional ethics. The Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation is the primary fundraising organization for the hospital, which receives donations by benefactors including former patients, other foundations and local business leaders.

Education

Sky Lakes Medical Center is affiliated with the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) education and research branches, providing internship and practicum positions for over 20 resident physicians in pursuit of their family medicine specialty. Sky Lakes produces a continuing investment in Cascades East Family Medicine residents' program. The hospital also works with OHSU, Oregon Institute of Technology and Klamath Community College faculties, supplementing their nursing programs with hands-on clinical exposure.

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