Garrett County Memorial Hospital Earns AABB Accreditation

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Wendy Sweitzer proudly displays the certificate of accreditation that GCMH received from AABB.
Garrett County Memorial Hospital has been granted accreditation by AABB, according to Joyce Nutter, BS, MT (ASCP), and GCMH Laboratory Director.

Accreditation follows an intensive, on-site assessment by specially trained AABB assessors and establishes that the level of medical, technical and administrative performance within the facility meets or exceeds the standards set by AABB. By successfully meeting those requirements, Garrett County Memorial Hospital joins approximately 1,800 similar facilities across the United States and abroad that have earned AABB accreditation.

 

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GCMH Foundation Project Successfully Completed

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Proudly holding the check are Wayne Johnson, Chairman of the GCMH Board of Governors and Foundation volunteer and Donald Battista, GCMH President/CEO. Also pictured left to right are Foundation Board Members Gary Daum, Pam Trydahl (Foundation Treasurer), Bill Grant, (Foundation Chairman), Jeanine Sisler, Regina Gearhart and Linda Fike.
The Garrett County Memorial Hospital Foundation successfully concluded its efforts to raise funds for the new 16-slice CT scan unit at the Hospital with a huge check in the amount of $650,000. This check presentation was made at the February Foundation Board meeting as Foundation members celebrate and recognize the community’s generous support of this fundraising effort.

 

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Luncheon Honors Hixon’s Service at GCMH

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Rev. Randy Nairn, President of GCMH Chaplaincy, Rev. Gail Hixon and Don Battista, President/CEO of GCMH
“I really enjoy visiting the patients at Garrett County Memorial Hospital,” comments Rev. Gail Hixon at the annual Chaplaincy Recognition luncheon where he was honored for more than 40 years of continuous service to Garrett County Memorial Hospital.

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GCMH Information Volunteers Get New Desk

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VIVA volunteers Wayne and Jackie Johnson, Elaine Saltysiak-Brickett and Bob Brickett, and Don Battista, President/CEO of GCMH
Longtime Garrett County Memorial Hospital Volunteers in Various Areas (VIVA) volunteers Bob Brickett and Elaine Saltysiak-Brickett, and Wayne and Jackie Johnson recognized the necessity of a larger and more effective workspace for the volunteers staffing the information/registration desk in the main lobby of the hospital and offered to fund the project. “We, the Brickett’s and Johnson’s are very proud and pleased to be able to sponsor this beautiful desk in the main lobby of Garrett County Memorial Hospital. It is a very sturdy, spacious and efficient addition to our lobby and large enough to handle the volunteers of VIVA and allow them to appropriately meet and greet our patients and clients coming into our hospital for lab work, radiological and emergency procedures,” comments Wayne Johnson.

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