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Boone County Hospital (BCH), in conjunction with the American Heart Association (AHA), The Children’s Heart Foundation, and participating hospitals, launched the third year of Iowa’s Little Hats, Big Hearts initiative. The program outfits newborns with knitted red caps during Heart Month in February to raise awareness of heart disease, the...

The Iowa Chapter of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) elected Jason Sheffler, D.O., as President-Elect to the Board at the recent annual conference and scientific seminar held in Des Moines. Dr. Sheffler is a family physician at Boone County Family Medicine South and Boone County Hospital. Dr....

Congratulations to Rebecca Turbes, Boone County Hospital (BCH) Home Care Services, who was recently honored as the 2017 Brown Award Winner at the BCH Annual Employee Recognition Party in January. Weldon J. Brown established the Brown Award in honor of his parents, Eunice D. and Everett C. Brown, long-time residents...

An Update to Our EHR is Coming

Hazem El-Arousy, M.D., Ph.D., vascular surgeon from The Iowa Clinic, is providing care one day a month in the BCH Specialty Clinic. Dr. El-Arousy received his Medical Degree from Cairo University, Egypt, and completed a Vascular Residency at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, a General Surgery Residency at Geisinger Medical Center, Pennsylvania,...

Boone County Hospital (BCH) was recently notifed by the Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN) of our achievement of success with our CAUTI (catheter associated urinary tract infection) rate from May through July, 2017. BCH is among the top 10 performing hospitals in Iowa for this particular measure. CAUTI is a...

Boone County Hospital has been recognized by The Chartis Center for Rural Health/iVantage Health Analytics and the National Organization of State Office of Rural Health (NOSORH) for overall excellence in quality, reflecting top performance among all rural hospitals in the nation. Joe Smith, BCH CEO, says, “We were excited to...

The Diabetes Center recently renewed its status as an accredited diabetes education program by the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE), a National Accredited Organization (NAO), certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This allows anyone with diabetes in and around Boone increased access to high quality...

Trees and Treasures Holiday Festival

Congratulations to the five Boone County Hospital employees that went through the 2017 Iowa Hospital Association (IHA) Health Care Leadership Series. They were recognized at the IHA Annual Meeting in October. During the past year, they learned about leadership, accountability, management, communication and conflict management, finance, and competency and commitment....