Memorial Medical Center and Marshfield Clinic Collaborating to Provide Oncology Specialist, Part 2
Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 -- 11:03 AM
-Memorial Medical Center will be offering more services for those in need of an oncology specialist.Memorial Medical Center will be collaborating with Marshfield Clinic to provide oncology specialist hear in Neillsville. MMC's CEO, Ryan Neville, elaborated further on the collaboration.
"For years, Marshfield Clinic has provided a cardiologist on site and that has gone very well. They also provided and endocrinologist to manage chronic care disease such as diabetes. As we've worked closely with Marshfield Clinic as of late, under their relatively newer leadership Dan Ramsey and Dr. Sue Turney, a lot of our conversations were what else could we do? And what could we do even better?"
"So, in working with our primary care docs and also the community, we realize that oncology is a disease that is difficult to manage form the patient perspective because it requires a lot of traveling, it requires some intense care and it's also very emotional."
"And so, in working with the Marshfield Clinic, we realized that there are a, I don't want to say large amount, but there's a considerable amount of patients from Clark County that travel to Marshfield for oncology services. We both identified that when care is local it's more consistent and it reduces the stress on the patient and the family."
"So, we sat down at the table and we discussed how we can bring oncology services to Memorial Medical Center. And our goal is, in a 6 week time frame, that an oncologist from Marshfield Clinic would begin seeing patients at Memorial Medical Center. And as that relationship beings, that we would then grow services to support that service line. So, our goal is to have an infusion center, potentially, maybe, with some chemo, blood transfusions, platelets. All those types of services, that we feel we'd be able to develop the skills to provide in our facility and then we are going to meet that goal to provide that going forward."
Coming up on Wednesday, Mr. Neville will explain when the discussion first began on this collaboration.
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Part 1: http://cwbradio.com/news/?fn_mode=fullnews&fn_id=15238
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