Some medical sufferers could not must journey from the Sheridan and Johnson County areas to Billings for an appointment.
Last week, the Hospital introduced it’s exploring a strategic partnership with the Billings Clinic and that representatives from each locations have met to start placing conceptual plans collectively.
Once plans are prepared, they are going to have to be authorised by the Hospital’s Board of Directors and by the Sheridan County Commissioners.
Hospital CEO Mike McCafferty says it’s too early within the strategy planning stage to particularly say what new companies that the hospital would possibly be capable of provide, however it might open up an array of specialty companies.
He provides one of many objectives of the partnership is to avoid wasting sufferers from having to make a visit to Billings that they might not must make.
“I think the opportunities are to really kind of knock off some of the rough edges on that flow of traffic back and forth between our organizations, and really that benefits patients whether it be being able to communicate more directly with individual clinicians or through the electronic medical record and the portal, those kinds of things are really important.”
The hospital will host three neighborhood boards to share info concerning the affiliation course of.
The first is on Monday, October twenty seventh from 5 till 6pm on the Primary Care facility positioned at 61 South Gould Street in Sheridan.
The second is on Tuesday, October twenty eighth from 5 till 6pm on the Tongue River Valley Community Center in Dayton.
The third is on Wednesday, October twenty ninth from 5:30 till 6:30pm on the Big Horn Women’s Club.
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