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Little
Falls hospital's drive aims at equipment
Oct. 2, 2003
From
staff reports
LITTLE
FALLS -- Little Falls Hospital's 2003-04 development
fund drive has a goal of $150,000 to be used toward
buying two essential pieces of equipment, hospital Board
of Trustees Chairman John D. Bullis said. They are:
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A state-of-the-art, computerized anesthesia machine
capable of making minuscule adjustments to fine-tune
the anesthesia administered to each patient.
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A machine to perform "functional capacity evaluations"
to help Valley employers, physicians and residents work
together to prevent injuries, reduce worker compensation
costs and ensure that employees and patients can properly
complete their job assignments or return to regular
activities in the home.
Hospital
CEO and President David S. Armstrong Jr. said the 2002-03
development fund drive, which ended a month ago, brought
in more than $163,000.
This
money is being used to install a radiographic-fluoroscopy
system. This advanced X-ray equipment will give the
hospital radiologist the clearest and most concise images
possible in today's highly sophisticated medical field,
he said.
Armstrong
said the hospital has just completed more than 110 years
of caring for Mohawk Valley residents.
"The
sophisticated equipment routinely used in medicine today
would have been far beyond the comprehension of anyone
visiting Little Falls Hospital 100 years ago, and this
equipment comes with price tags that would have astounded
folks living in the previous century," Armstrong
said.
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