Health brief: Baptist Golden Triangle adds Wound Healing, Hyperbaric Medicine Services
By Special to The Dispatch 8 hours ago
COLUMBUS You have heard the popular saying, “Time heals all wounds.” But, in many cases, that is not always true. Some wounds can take weeks to heal and many will not heal completely without some type of medical intervention.
Patients who live in and around Lowndes County who suffer from a hard-to-heal wound now
have a local option for treatment. Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle has opened a new Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine Center on the third floor of the hospital’s Fifth Street building.
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For Amy Bogue, executive director of the Allegro Family Clinic in Columbus, the examples spring easily to mind.
Several elderly patients who had developed urinary tract infections that could have been treated right away with antibiotics. One patient who had suffered a stroke.
Scared of contracting COVID-19 during a visit to the doctor, they waited too long to seek medical help, and their symptoms worsened, though thankfully they received care before it was too late.
“They’re delaying care for fear of COVID, but they’re having way worse side effects because they’re not taking care of the issue at hand,” Bogue said. “So it’s a little concerning.”
The North Mississippi Medical Center (NMMC) in Tupelo, Mississippi.
The grades reflect a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.
Posted: Apr 29, 2021 11:46 AM
Posted By: Zac Carlisle
JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) - Hospitals in Oxford, Columbus, New Albany, Tupelo, and Starkville received A grades in the latest safety report from The Leapfrog Group.
The grades reflect a hospital’s overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.
Local hospitals that received an A grade (select each hospital to view score details)
Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle, Columbus, Mississippi
Beverly Hospital, Beverly, Massachusetts
Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, Elmhurst, Illinois
French Hospital Medical Center, San Luis Obispo, California
Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital, Commerce Township, Michigan
Inova Loudoun Hospital, Leesburg, Virginia
Kaiser Permanente Orange County-Anaheim Medical Center, Anaheim, California
Mayo Clinic Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona
Memorial Hospital Miramar, Miramar, Florida
Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, Illinois
OhioHealth Dublin Methodist Hospital, Dublin, Ohio and OhioHealth Grady Memorial Hospital, Delaware, Ohio
OSF St. Mary Medical Center, Galesburg, Illinois
Rex Hospital, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina
Rose Medical Center, Denver, Colorado
Saint Anne s Hospital, Fall River, Massachusetts
Vehicle pulls out in front of ambulance, causes wreck An ambulance from Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle collided with a car on Gardner Boulevard Monday morning. Columbus Police Chief Fred Shelton said the car pulled out in front of the ambulance, which was responding to a vehicle. The driver of the car was taken via another ambulance to the hospital for non life-threatening injuries. Courtesy photo
Three ambulances were dispatched for the sake of one 911 call after the first ambulance collided with a private vehicle on Gardner Boulevard Monday morning.
The first ambulance was on its way to a call when the collision occurred near the Chevron gas station at about 8 a.m. Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle then dispatched two more ambulances one to respond to the original call and one to respond to the accident on Gardner, hospital spokesperson Megan Pratt said. She added the accident did not result in any serious injuries.