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HOSPITAL AND EMERGENCY ROOM SERVICES
• Emergency care close to home when minutes count
• 24-hour acute care hospital and emergency room services by qualified staff
• Lab, X-Ray, Ultrasound, and CT Scan Services
• Echocardiograms
• Outpatient Physical Therapy
• Respite care
• Swing-bed care
• Cardiology Clinic and Stress Testing
• Endoscopy
EMERGENCY ROOM SERVICES
Prague Community Hospital offers 24-hour emergency room services to the community for your emergency needs including stabilization prior to transfer to a larger tertiary hospital if needed. It is staffed by on-call physicians and PAs, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Services are close to home for quick access with less waiting.
ACUTE CARE HOSPITAL
Prague Community Hospital provides inpatient medical care for a variety of medical conditions, to keep you or your loved one close to home for quality medical and personalized nursing care. You or your family are able to visit the loved one more often and at times more convenient to you . Wasted hours of driving can be saved– hours that could be spent with the patient.
PHYSICAL THERAPY
The Physical Medicine Department at Prague Community Hospital offers inpatient and outpatient physical and occupational therapy services.
SWING-BED CARE (Skilled Nursing)
A variety of patients can benefit from Swing-bed services, but many people in this area do not realize we offer this service. Or, they may not know that loved ones can be transferred to Prague, closer to friends and family, to receive these services after they have concluded an acute-care hospital stay at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, or other communities.
Despite its odd name, the Swing-bed program at Prague Community Hospital provides a valuable resource to area Medicare patients needing daily skilled nursing services after the acute-care phase is over.
The Swing-bed program provides 24-hour skilled nursing care for certain conditions:
• Patients with multiple medical problems needing extended skills observation and medication adjustment.
• Patients needing skilled wound/dressing changes or those needing extended IV antibiotic therapy.
• Newly diagnosed adult diabetic patients needing insulin teaching and adjustment.
• Patients needing rehabilitation services following a severe fracture or stroke.
All patients entering the Swing-bed program must have been in an acute care hospital for at least three days before their transfer into the program.
Admissions are screened on an individual basis, but there must be a certified need for daily skilled nursing care.
If you think you or a loved one could benefit from Swing-bed Services at Prague Community Hospital, call : Cindy Rogers, RN, Director of Nursing or Joan Walters, RN, MSN Administrator at (405) 567-4922.
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