Healthcare in Show Low
Summit Regional Medical Center: Serving the White Mountains of Arizona
Services
At Summit Regional Medical Center, whatever your particular area of need, we strive to deliver the best care available. We offer services in the areas of cardiac catheterization and angiography, cardiac ultrasound, chemotherapy and outpatient IV therapy, home health, intensive care, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedic and general surgery, pediatrics, radiation and medical oncology, radiology (including MRI, GE light speed ultra CT and Dexa Scan capabilities), respiratory care, urology and much more.
The Summit Regional Medical Center Outpatient Imaging Center of Snowflake, located at 1121 Main Street in Snowflake, Arizona, is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The Center offers X-ray, Ultrasound, CT, Mammography Screenings, DEXA Scanning, EKG’s and blood draws. To ask about scheduling your appointment in Snowflake today, please call (928) 537-6554.
The Summit Regional Medical Center Community Clinic is located at 2931 South Highway 260 in Overgaard, Arizona. The clinic is open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and offers care for the whole family. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call (928) 535-3616.
The East Campus building at Summit Regional Medical Center has been designated to provide outstanding community health services. Here you’ll find health promotion, disease prevention and occupational health services ranging from a supervised exercise program and nutritional counseling to cardiac rehabilitation and immunizations. We believe that wellness is the key to a longer, healthier life, and we’ll be glad to provide you with more information on our services designed to give you just that.
At Summit Regional Medical Center, we are living our vision of being a “model of success” as a rural healthcare provider. We are currently licensed as a 66-bed hospital undergoing expansion that will take us to 81 private patient rooms by fall of 2007. The much-anticipated expansion will provide a five-story patient tower with an ICU and Medical/Surgical unit on the first floor, a Medical/Surgical unit on the second floor and an obstetrical and women’s health unit on the third floor. The unit will house an observation nursery and 20 private rooms for couplet care, allowing for mom, baby and family to room together. The fourth and fifth floor will be shelled in as we anticipate further expansion as our population grows. Within the main hospital, the renovation of our existing Obstetrical Department will provide for a future eight-bed Level II nursery, seven Labor and Delivery rooms and a two-bed outpatient triage room. The anticipated Level II prenatal care center provides services for low-risk and selected high-risk maternity and complicated newborn patients.
Our ongoing growth is a reflection of our level of service, and as we continue to grow, we’ll continue to provide you with the care you expect and deserve.
New Services
Summit Regional Medical Center has acquired a new, state-of-the-art CT imaging system from GE Healthcare. The LightSpeed® VCT is the world’s first Volume Computed Tomography (VCT) system. Summit Regional Medical Center will offer an innovative way for its physicians to obtain the information they need to diagnose disease and life-threatening illnesses, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, and chest pain.
Summit Regional Medical Center’s physicians will be able to capture images of a beating heart in five heartbeats, an organ in one second and perform whole body trauma in ten seconds, more than twice as fast as conventional multi-slice CT scanners. This speed is especially helpful in shortening breath holds for geriatric patients, patients who are on ventilators and pediatric patients.
“Our new Volume CT system will allow our physicians to perform new and enhanced procedures, and obtain the information they need to diagnose patients who are suffering from chest pain or stroke,” said Mike Dunlap, Director of Radiology. “Volume CT is patient friendly. Fast scans can help reduce patient stress and anxiety, and some of the volume CT procedures can be done in only one simple exam.”
Summit Regional Medical Center will be able to offer the following innovative procedures to be performed on their new LightSpeed VCT:
• 5-Beat Cardiac™ The physician’s at Summit Regional Medical Center will be able to capture images of the whole heart and coronary arteries in just five heartbeats – providing clearer images of cardiovascular anatomy and a shorter breath hold for sick and elderly patients.
• Triple RuleOut™ Three primary causes of mortality in patients with chest pain are aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism and coronary artery disease. The physicians at Summit Regional Medical Center will have a tool to help them rule out (or in) these three individual causes of patient’s chest pain through a single quick scan.
• Stroke Work-Up Once a stroke occurs, it is commonly believed that treatment must be delivered quickly to ensure the best outcome for the patient. The LightSpeed VCT offers Summit Regional Medical Center the speed and resolution required for rapid imaging of the blood vessels in the brain. This enables physicians to make a quick diagnosis and determine the best course of treatment while reducing the number of exams a patient may need to undergo.
In a single rotation, the LightSpeed VCT creates 64 high-resolution anatomical images as thin as a credit card. These images are combined to form a three-dimensional view of the patient’s anatomy for the physicians at Summit Regional Medical Center to analyze. From these images, physicians will be able to view such things as blockages in the coronary arteries, as well as the motion and pumping action of a patient’s heart.
“We’re breaking barriers in speed and accuracy of patient exams and will be able to offer new and enhanced diagnostic procedures,” said Mike Dunlap, Director of Radiology. “The technology will greatly benefit both the physicians and patients of the White Mountains. We’re excited to be the first to offer this medical technology in the area.”
Quality/Awards
Summit Regional Medical Center was named as a 2006 CareScience Select Practice National Quality Leader in the category of Pneumonia. As a recipient of the 2006 Select Practice Quality Leader award, Summit Regional Medical Center has achieved superior performance in care of patients in the disease group of Pneumonia, as identified by the CareScience™ Select Practice methodology, which utilizes both quality and efficiency indices to track a hospital’s performance. All acute care inpatient facilities in the United States with at least 50 cases of a given disease were eligible to receive a CareScience Select Practice Leader designation in that disease area. “Summit Regional Medical Center’s inclusion in the CareScience 2006 Select Practice Leader Report confirms the organization’s dedication and success in implementing high quality patient care,” said Richard Bankowitz, MD, MBA, vice president and medical director, CareScience. “We believe the CareScience Select Practice National Quality Leader award recipient represents the country’s very best healthcare facilities for patient care. Based on Summit Regional Medical Center’s performance on objective measures of clinical outcomes and efficiencies in the area of Pneumonia, we are therefore pleased to award them with a Select Practice designation.” Information on the CareScience Select Practice Awards and methodology can be found at http://www.carescience.com/newsevents/selectpractice/index.cfm.
Summit Regional Medical Center was named one of the nation’s top performance improvement leader hospitals by Evanston, Illinois-based Solucient®, the nation’s leading source of healthcare information products. Summit Regional Medical Center was recognized for being one of a hundred hospitals making the greatest progress in improving hospital-wide performance over five years (2000-2004). These organizations have set national benchmarks for consistent improvement in clinical outcomes, safety, hospital efficiency, financial stability and growth. “Five years of steady, well-aligned improvement means that these 100 Performance Improvement (PI) Leaders have enormously increased the value they provide to their communities,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president, performance improvement and 100 Top programs, Center for Healthcare Improvement at Solucient. The study looked at all U.S. hospitals licensed to treat Medicare patients. Nine performance measures were examined at each hospital: risk-adjusted mortality and complications, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, growth in patient volume, tangible assets and risk-adjusted patient safety index. The study used publicly available Medicare cost reports, MedPAR data and CMS outpatient data from 2000 through 2004. More information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals research is available at www.100tophospitals.com.
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