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Rice Hospital Faces Layoffs and Discontinued Programs
August 21, 2008. Rice Memorial Hospital regrettably announces that it will be laying off 13 people and discontinuing two outpatient health programs. Faced with fewer inpatients, declining revenues, and increasing expenses, the hospital needed to further reduce expenses. Read more, click here.
Lawrence J. Massa Named President and CEO of MHA
July 30, 2008. The Minnesota Hospital Association has selected Lawrence (Lorry) J. Massa to be their next President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Massa will assume the MHA's top position in mid-October. He has been the current CEO of Rice Memorial Hospital since January 1994. He has served on the MHA Board of Directors for the past nine years. Read more, click here.
Rice Hospice Awarded Circle of Life Citation of Honor
July 21, 2008. Rice Hospice today was named a 2008 Circle of Life Award honoree. Rice Hopice was recnogized for its innovative program that improves the care of patients near the end of life or with life-threatening conditions. Read more, click here.
RRC Kids Win 3rd Place in Kiddie Parade!
June 26, 2008. The Rice Rehabilitation Center (RRC) staff have a lot to be proud of today. To see photos, click here.
Dr. Duevel's Amazing Amazon Adventure
June 16, 2008. When Dr. Kathryn Duevel volunteered for the Guyana Cervical Cancer Project, Rice Hospital's Laboratory Services, Minnesota Pathologists Chartered, and ACMC, donated staff time and materials to the project. To read about everyone's contribution toward bringing health care services to the women of Guyana, click here.
Congratulations to Mel Macik of Lake Lillian! He's the winner of the Q102/Rice Memorial Hospital "Free Sleep Study Contest" announced at 7:50 a.m., Friday, June 13, 2008, on Q102 and KOLV.
June 13, 2008. Thank you to all of the people who entered our Sleep Study Contest. One of the judges reported, "It was hard choosing just one winner, but Mel's entry touched us. We're looking forward to meeting with him and helping him through the sleep study process." Stay tuned. To read about the Sleep Study Center at Rice Hospital, click here.
A special thank you to James Miller and MaryElin Macht for sharing their sleep study stories with everyone. James reported on the air today that he experienced 293 recorded sleep apneas during 182 minutes of sleep at the Sleep Study Center. In fact, one apnea lasted two minutes. He was diagnosed with severe sleep apnea. "I have a C-PAP machine and it helps me sleep. The snoring is gone now." As a result, James joked that MaryElin is probably biggest beneficiary of the study. All joking aside, he reported that his quality of sleep has improved and that was the goal of the study and diagnosis.
Proceeds from the 2007 Foot Lake Four Walk/Run working to save lives in Kandiyohi County
May 28, 2008. The Foot Lake Four Walk/Run takes place every June during Willmar Fests. Almost 600 walkers and runners participate in the USATF-certified four-mile course that starts and finishes at Rice. The 2007 event raised more than $6,000, which was used to purchase five Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) for placement in Kandiyohi County. Read more.
Willmar Ambulance EMS Week Open House
May 21, 2008. Willmar Ambulance held an Open House in honor of National Emergency Medical Services Week, which recognizes the lifesaving care EMS providers offer the public 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. See photos here.
Rice Employee Award Winners Announced
May 12, 2008. Pam Brown, Emergency Services, posthumously received the First Place "My Nurse Made the Difference" Award on May 13, 2008. Sharing Second Place honors were Pam Mayer, ICCU, and Mary Schieck, Ambulatory Care. Thank you to the many patients and family members who nominated their nurses for this award.
First Place Award for Employees Exemplifying Excellence (EEE) went to Sherry Hagelstrom, Rice Rehabilitation Center. Second Place was awarded to Julie Boonstra, Emergency & Operative Services, and Third Place Honors went to Jan Nelson, Adult Health Care. See photos here.
Willmar Medical Services Joint Venture
Beginning January 1, 2008, Affiliated Community Medical Centers (ACMC) and Rice Memorial Hospital (Rice) will sign a joint venture agreement to provide imaging and cancer center services for our communities. The new joint venture, called Willmar Medical Services, will also include the Willmar Surgery Center, which has been jointly owned by ACMC and Rice for over twenty years. Willmar Medical Services will be a for-profit entity, co-owned by Rice and ACMC. Read more.
New Orthopedic Practice at Rice
Aug. 7, 2007. Rice Memorial Hospital and Affiliated Community Medical Centers are pleased to announce a long-term agreement has been entered into with Alexandria Orthopaedic Associates, P.A. The orthopaedic physician group will staff a local branch office called the Orthopaedic Associates/Willmar initially located within ACMC Willmar clinic. The cooperative effort between the three entities will improve access to orthopaedic services to people in Willmar and surrounding communities. Read more.
New CNO Begins at Rice Memorial Hospital
May 13, 2007. Maureen Ideker, R.N., has joined the Rice Executive Team as Associate Administrator for Care Management/Chief Nursing Officer. For the past 20 plus years, Maureen has served as the Director of Patient Care Services at Tri-County Hospital in Wadena, Minnesota. Tri-County is a 25 bed critical access hospital accredited by the Joint Commission. She has past experience in Psychiatric nursing and Medical/Surgical nursing, both in leadership positions and at the bedside. She also has experience in Human Resources, having served as an Employment Coordinator at one point in her career. She has worked as a staff nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, and in both staff and leadership positions at Immanuel St. Joseph’s Hospital in Mankato and at Marion Health Center in Sioux City, Iowa, prior to her tenure at Tri-County. Read more.
2006-07. When Cushman Rice established the funds to build Rice Memorial Hospital in memory of his parents, Albert and Sophia Rice, he envisioned a place where the residents of Willmar could receive excellent care.
Today as we mark the completion of our $52 million building project, we feel that Cushman would be pleased to see a facility designed to deliver state-of-the-art healthcare and meet the needs of our community for many years to come.
Welcome to the New Rice. Read factoids.
For more information on Rice's building project, click here.
