Greene County Medical Center recently purchased new equipment to help with patient care.

GCMC bought three fetal monitors for the obstetric department.  It will allow the nursing staff the ability to step away from a patient’s bedside while the machine monitors them during the early labor process to give patients more privacy.  Then the patient’s information is automatically transferred to the patient flow sheet, giving the nursing staff more time to care for the patient themselves.

Along with Acute Care, Dr. David Jaskey and certified midwife Valerie Martin with Advanced Women’s Care can also monitor patients from their offices.  The departments helped to deliver 14 newborns in October.

GCMC also purchased cardiac monitors for the emergency room and acute floor, which also allows for out-of-the-room monitoring.

Both sets of machines were paid for by the medical center’s $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP).