Iowa Specialty Hospitals and Clinics is pleased to announce that Dr. Kenneth Adams is joining our system full-time, effective August 13, 2021. Dr. Adams will be seeing patients and performing colonoscopies and other procedures on the following schedule: Tuesday: Clarion Specialty Clinic Wednesday: Humboldt County Memorial Hospital Thursday: Fort Dodge...
Iowa Specialty Hospital’s 200th baby of 2021, Callie Marie Klein, was born on June 7th at 12:14 in the afternoon to parents Matt and Becca Klein. Baby Callie weighed 7 pounds 2 ounces, was 20 inches in length, and has brown hair and blue eyes. She will join sibling Nora,...
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield has recognized Iowa Specialty Hospital with a Blue Distinction Center® designation in the area of bariatric surgery, as part of the Blue Distinction® Specialty Care program. The designation places Iowa Specialty Hospital among the nationally designated facilities shown to deliver quality specialty care based...
There are two major pieces of news this week pertaining to COVID-19. The FDA granted authorization for the Pfizer vaccine to be used in children aged 12-15 (it was already authorized for 16 and older) and the CDC has relaxed their recommendations to indicate that those who are fully vaccinated...
Iowa Specialty Hospitals & Clinics Diabetes Education Program in Belmond and Clarion, Iowa has been awarded Recognition from the American Diabetes Association. The DSMES service was originally recognized in March of 2021. This service offers high-quality education services to their participants. Iowa Specialty Hospitals & Clinics was previously accredited with...
In August 2018, the voters of Wright County approved the Ad Valorem property tax for EMS funding. FY2019/2020 was the first official year of funding available to EMS services in Wright County. The goal of this funding was to improve the EMS system for the citizens of Wright County. Since...
The number of COVID-19 cases locally has had a small recent uptick and the test positivity rate has increased over the last 2 weeks, indicating that we are less likely to be detecting all the cases that exist. For now, this is a fairly small increase but there are some...
Approximately eighteen months ago, Iowa Specialty Hospital partnered with the University of Iowa to offer a blended nurse residency program. The purpose of a Nurse Residency program is to ease the transition of the novice nurse into a competency professional practice. Based on best practices and the latest research, the...
Why should I get the current COVID vaccine when there are already new variants of the virus? Will the current vaccine cover the evolving variants? Or should I wait until a ‘newer’ vaccine comes out? Do you anticipate that the COVID vaccine will change much over time, kind of like...
The effort to make sure everyone is protected from COVID-19 is progressing quite well in our local area. To use Wright County as an example, 3,676 county residents have received at least one dose of vaccination. There are an estimated 9,631 adults over the age of 18 in the county....
