2025 highlights Awards ● Arbor Health–Morton Hospital Physical Therapy won the five-star Award for Excellence in Healthcare from PRC. ● Arbor Health–Morton Hospital Emergency Department won the four-star Award for Excellence in Healthcare from PRC. ● Rapid Care Clinic won The Chronicle’s Best of Lewis County first place award in the urgent care category. ● Arbor Health won first place in KMNT’s Listeners’ Choice Award for Hospital, Place to Work, Physical Therapy and Urgent Care. ● Received the 2025 Critical Access Hospital Achievement of Quality Healthcare Gold Award from the Washington State Hospital Association. Quality and certification Radiology Department: ● Completed a successful MQSA (Mammography Quality Standards Act) survey. ● Completed a successful Washington State Department of Health CT and x-ray inspection. Hospital medical laboratory: ● Updated and renewed all CLIA Medical Test Site licenses. ● Implemented reticulocyte count testing. Staffing and leadership ● Welcomed our new CEO, Eric “Max” Neal, in August. ● Hired Janice Pendergast as Laboratory Services Department Manager and Kim Pederson as Quality Director. ● Promoted Carey Young to Director of Nursing. ● Promoted registered nurse Colleen Littlejohn to Assistant Chief Nursing Officer (ACNO) as part of the current CNO’s retirement succession plan. ● Promoted registered nurses Cindy Farley and Amy Horejsi to acute care and operating room coordinators, respectively. ● Recruited enough new nurses to reduce traveling nurses from 15 to 5. MYARBORHEALTH.ORG
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