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Board approves over $130,000 in surgical equipment requests
By Laura Bacon, NT Staff Writer
It's exciting: Leah Marxen, Assistant Administrator of Clinical Services said she was very excited about the increases in the surgical schedule at the Cass County Memorial Hospital, and presented requests for over $130,000 worth of surgery related equipment intended to further increase the number of surgeries performed at CCMH. She talked about the requests and current surgery increases during a report she was giving at the Cass County Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday.
On Oct. 1 Dr. Harry Condoleon, D.O., general surgeon, joined Dr. Martin L. Key, M.D., PC, creating Southwest Iowa Surgery. Since then the two surgeons have been able to increase the number of surgical procedures performed at CCMH, and having Condoleon on staff has led to additional capital equipment requests.
Marxen said that changes in the kinds of surgeries being performed, as well as additional surgeries that Dr. Condoleon would like to be able to perform led to the requests for anesthesia and other surgery equipment at a cost of over $130,000.
New anesthesia equipment was needed due to different types of surgeries that were being performed. A request for an anesthesia gas machine and monitoring system was approved at a cost of $44,000 for the gas machine and $38,000 for the required monitoring system. The total cost of the request came to $82,000.
In addition, the board considered a request for equipment used for testing pH levels in a patient's esophagus and stomach, a diagnostic test required before patients can be approved for a special surgery to control reflux problem.
The testing equipment, called Esophageal Manometry for pH reflux, cost $50,600.
The surgery was supposed to help people with reflux problems that weren't being controlled with drugs, but patients needed to have the special diagnostic testing. Previously patients were referred elsewhere for the testing, but purchasing the equipment meant that the testing and the surgery could all be done at CCMH.
The board members voted to approve the testing equipment request as well, for a total of $132,600 in capital equipment expenditures.
Board members noted that they had expected some equipment requests after hearing that a new surgeon had joined the hospital.
Mike Collins, Assistant Administrator and Chief Financial Officer for CCMH talked about the increasing number of surgeries being performed at CCMH since Dr. Condoleon's arrival.
Dr. Key, who has been a private general surgeon in Atlantic for nearly 23 years, had been performing about 42 surgical procedures per month before Dr. Condoleon's arrival.
A general surgeon, Condoleon performs colonoscopies, laparoscopic cholecystectomies, caesarean sections and other general surgery procedures. Since Dr. Condoleon started at CCMH, the number of procedures per month has increased, Collins reported, going from 42, to 51 to a more recent 70 procedures per month between both doctors.
On Oct. 1 Dr. Harry Condoleon, D.O., general surgeon, joined Dr. Martin L. Key, M.D., PC, creating Southwest Iowa Surgery. Since then the two surgeons have been able to increase the number of surgical procedures performed at CCMH, and having Condoleon on staff has led to additional capital equipment requests.
Marxen said that changes in the kinds of surgeries being performed, as well as additional surgeries that Dr. Condoleon would like to be able to perform led to the requests for anesthesia and other surgery equipment at a cost of over $130,000.
New anesthesia equipment was needed due to different types of surgeries that were being performed. A request for an anesthesia gas machine and monitoring system was approved at a cost of $44,000 for the gas machine and $38,000 for the required monitoring system. The total cost of the request came to $82,000.
In addition, the board considered a request for equipment used for testing pH levels in a patient's esophagus and stomach, a diagnostic test required before patients can be approved for a special surgery to control reflux problem.
The testing equipment, called Esophageal Manometry for pH reflux, cost $50,600.
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The board members voted to approve the testing equipment request as well, for a total of $132,600 in capital equipment expenditures.
Board members noted that they had expected some equipment requests after hearing that a new surgeon had joined the hospital.
Mike Collins, Assistant Administrator and Chief Financial Officer for CCMH talked about the increasing number of surgeries being performed at CCMH since Dr. Condoleon's arrival.
Dr. Key, who has been a private general surgeon in Atlantic for nearly 23 years, had been performing about 42 surgical procedures per month before Dr. Condoleon's arrival.
A general surgeon, Condoleon performs colonoscopies, laparoscopic cholecystectomies, caesarean sections and other general surgery procedures. Since Dr. Condoleon started at CCMH, the number of procedures per month has increased, Collins reported, going from 42, to 51 to a more recent 70 procedures per month between both doctors.
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