Donate Life Ohio Green Chair to be at Southeastern Med

Written by:  Kelli Koch
Marketing/Communications Specialist
Southeastern Med
kjkoch@seormc.org

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, April 15, 2011 – Take a seat to take a stand for the Donate Life Ohio’s Green Chair Campaign. Southeastern Med will have the green chair on display in its main lobby April 21-25.

When empty, the Donate Life Ohio Green Chair represents the loss of someone who never found a donor. Likewise, someone sitting in the chair can represent the new hope of a donor whose “Gift of Life” will be the second chance for someone in need.

The Donate Life Ohio Green Chair travels around the state to help educate Ohioans about the benefits and need for organ, eye and tissue donation. The goal is to fill the green chair with more registered donors so it will not go empty for those waiting on life-saving organ transplants.

To learn more about organ donation and to hear personal donation stories from local recipient’s and family donors, Southeastern Med will also host a Celebrate Life Event on April 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the medical center’s Morrison Room. The event is part of the medical center’s celebration of April as National Organ Donation Awareness Month, a month dedicated to those who gave the “Gift of Life” and honoring those whose lives were saved or enhanced by receiving an organ or tissue transplant.

Southeastern Med is one of 71 hospitals in central and southeast Ohio to partner with Lifeline of Ohio, a Donate Life Organization that promotes and coordinates the donation of human organs and tissue for transplantation.

For more information about the event or organ donation, please call Kathy Warhola, RN, BSN, Regional Representative for Lifeline of Ohio, at 1-800-525-5667, ext. 344. Don’t let another chair go empty, please visit www.donatelifeohio.org and register today.

Southeastern Med Earns ACR Ultrasound Accreditation

Contact:  Kelli Koch
Marketing/Communications Specialist
Southeastern Med
kjkoch@seormc.org

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, April 6, 2011 — Southeastern Med is proud to announce that the American College of Radiology (ACR) awarded the medical center a three-year term of accreditation in ultrasound.

Ultrasound imaging, also known as sonography, uses high-frequency sound waves to produce images of internal body parts to help providers diagnose illness, injury, or other medical problems. The accreditation covers the medical center’s general, vascular and breast ultrasound services. General ultrasound includes, but is not limited to, the abdomen, gall bladder, pancreas, liver and kidneys. Vascular ultrasound captures images of blood vessels including arteries and veins. Breast ultrasound is used to aid in the evaluation of possible masses in the breast and is usually used in conjunction with a mammogram.

The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety. It is awarded only to facilities meeting ACR Practice Guidelines and Technical Standards, following a peer-review evaluation by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field. Image quality, personnel qualifications, adequacy of facility equipment, quality control procedures, and quality assurance programs are assessed. The findings are reported to the ACR Committee on Accreditation, which subsequently provides the practice with a comprehensive report they can use for continuous practice improvement.

The ACR is a national professional organization serving more than 34,000 diagnostic/interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and medical physicists with programs focusing on the practice of medical imaging and radiation oncology and the delivery of comprehensive health care services.