Medical Imaging At PGRH Gets Boost
By 250 News
Special Procedures Technologist Elaine Kole, operates equipment in new interventional suite at PGRH
While the rest of the Province is talking about private use of MRI facilities,comes word Prince George Regional Hospital has upgraded its medical imaging capabilities.
$1.6 million went towards new equipment to improve x-ray and fluoroscopic testing capabilities.
The upgrades include a $780,000 combined remote radiography/fluoroscopy room and a new $857,000 interventional suite. Both rooms are now operational meaning some procedures formerly done in the operating room ( insertion of catheters for dialysis patients) can now be done in the new facility. That will free up O.R. time for other procedures, and should increase the number of patients that can be treated.
Northern Health has also spent more than $3.5 million for its picture archiving and comunications systems in the region’s medial imaging dpartment. The end result will see all medical images kept in a computerized system allowing physicians throughout the region to access the images, while cutting film development costs.
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The waiting time for an ultrasound scan for a pregnant patient is about 3 months. Why?? Because ultrasound technicians are very hard to find.
An x-ray technician at PGRH wanted to go to Alberta for the 9 month course. She asked the NHA for assistance in the form of $3,000 per month. In return she would sign a promise to work as an ultrasound tech. for multi-years. At about the same time that the NHA was crowing about its $799,000 first quarter surplus, they turned her down.
The private clinic at the Phoenix, who are also short of US techs gave her the money and she signed a multi-year contract with them. So now PGRH is short an x-ray tech as well as an US tech..
Anybody planning a pregnancy next year should book their US now!!