| Hospital honors employees’ care, commitment |
During National Hospital Week, Rome Memorial Hospital honored its Employees of the Year for clearly demonstrating customer service characteristics that enhance patient satisfaction and promote positive peer relationships.
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| Wound Center Named Center of Distinction |
Rome Memorial Hospital’s Regional Center for Wound Care has been named a Center of Distinction by Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services, for superior commitment to excellence for their patients and hospital partner.
To earn this honor, the Regional Center for Wound Care Center achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for twelve consecutive months, including patient satisfaction higher than 92 percent, and a minimum wound healing rate of at least 91 percent within 30 median days to heal. Rome’s Regional Center for Wound Care also received the President’s Circle Award, one of only 16 chosen for this designation from the 635 eligible centers nationwide. |
| Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation at Chestnut Commons Physical and Occupational Therapy |
| Weakened or impaired pelvic floor muscles can be a result of aging, after childbirth, or illness. Dysfunctions involving the pelvic floor muscles can contribute to urinary incontinence, chronic pelvic pain, and sexual dysfunction. Pelvic floor rehabilitation is a non-surgical approach designed to help women strengthen the muscles of the pelvic floor, to identify the source of pelvic pain, or to improve or resolve conditions such as stress or urge urinary incontinence, chronic constipation. Rome Memorial Hospital Occupational Therapist Jennifer Barone, MS, OTR/ L, is now providing pelvic floor rehabilitation at Chestnut Commons Physical and Occupational Therapy, 107 E. Chestnut St., Rome. Barone received her advanced training as a pelvic rehabilitation practitioner from the Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute, recognized for excellence in pelvic floor/girdle rehabilitation. |
| 30 year nursing career recognized as part of National Nurses Week |
| National Nurses Week has special meaning to Dawn Bereza, RN, BSN, this year as she celebrates 30 years of service at Rome Memorial Hospital (RMH). RMH has 278 nurses who will be honored during Nurses Week for the inspiring, innovating, and influencing work they do every day. |
| Janine M. Little, RN, BSN named nurse manager of SBHU |
| Janine M. Little, RN, BSN, has been named nurse manager of the Senior Behavioral Health Unit (SBHU) at Rome Memorial Hospital, announced Wendy R. Goetz, FACHE, LNHA, MBA, Administrator. Rome Memorial Hospital’s Senior Behavioral Health Care Unit provides individualized care for adults 55 and older who are suffering from acute symptoms associated with a major mental health illness, such as clinical depression, anxiety disorders or bi-polar illness. Inpatient hospitalization offers stabilization and treatment for adults in crisis, who are experiencing serious behavioral or mental changes. |
| Nurse Practitioner Lynne Philley joins Delta Medical |
| Nurse Practitioner Lynne Philley, MS, RN, A-GNP, CGRN, VA-BC has joined the staff of Delta Medical and is accepting new patients. Philley joins Patricia Marrello, RN, FNP-C, Bridget Arquette, MS, ANP, FNP-C, Libby Gleasman, RN, FNP-C, and Katherine Freeman, RN, MS, FNP-C at the adult primary care practice, located at 1819 Black River Blvd., Rome. |