Congressman David Trone and GRMC Chief Executive Officer Mark Boucot met this week at the acute care hospital in Garrett County to discuss the challenges facing health care providers in rural areas and to congratulate the hospital administration and medical staff for being named a Top 20 Rural and Community Hospital by the National Rural Health Association for the second year in a row. […]
Read More… from Congressman David Trone, GRMC CEO Mark Boucot, discuss health care challenges
GRMC offers Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for people struggling with opioid addiction throughout its 8-county service area. The program, provided through the hospital’s behavioral health clinic at Family Health & Wellness in Oakland, is managed by Kelly Rock, DNP, PMHNP-BC, a psychiatric nurse practitioner with extensive experience in the behavioral health field. […]
Read More… from GRMC Health & Wellness Provides Medication Assisted Treatment
GRMC has been named a Top 20 Rural and Community Hospital in the country for the second year in a row. The annual rankings, released by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA), are based on a rigorous assessment of patient data from hospitals across the country using the Hospital Strength Index. […]
Read More… from GRMC named two time Top 20 Rural and Community Hospital
GRMC President and CEO Mark Boucot has been named a “Top Rural Hospital CEO to Know” by Becker’s Hospital Review, a leading healthcare publication. The annual list recognized 67 rural hospital CEOs who have worked to ensure their communities have access to the best healthcare services possible, developing models that allow rural hospitals to thrive and succeed in an environment where many rural healthcare facilities face closure.
[…]
Read More… from Mark Boucot named a “Top Rural Health CEO to Know”
GRMC has been recognized for the fourth consecutive year as a Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital by the National Rural Health Association and the The Chartis Center for Rural Health. The annual recognition program honors outstanding performance among the nation’s rural hospitals based on the results of the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX™. […]
Read More… from GRMC named Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital
GRMC Chief Operating Officer Kendra Thayer recently spoke at the American Hospital Association (AHA) Rural Health Care Leadership Conference in Arizona on the use of telemedicine to bring behavioral health services to rural communities through partnerships with larger behavioral health providers. […]
Read More… from GRMC Chief Operating officer, Kendra Thayer, speaks at national conference
Dee Hetrick, RN, was recently named Garrett Regional Medical Center’s (GRMC) quarterly recipient of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses®. Hetrick was nominated for the award by a former patient who was in the GRMC Family Centered Maternity Suite. […]
Read More… from Dee Hetrick, RN, recipient of GRMC’s DAISY Extraordinary Nurse Award
As our county continues to see increases in COVID cases from the Omicron variant, we are asking for your help as we continue to care for our community and anticipate a continued surge of COVID cases. The new Omicron variant is spreading faster and more easily than previous variants. The monoclonal infusions used to treat Delta are not showing effectiveness with this new variant and are no longer indicated for use.
[…]
Read More… from A message from GRMC regarding the omicron variant
GRMC will hold two Virtual Public Forums with West Virginia University Medicine to provide area citizens with information on its proposed full partnership with WVU. The forums will be held Tuesday, December 14th, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., and then again on Monday, December 20th, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. The sessions will include a short presentation as well as a question-and-answer period, with members of the public able to submit questions ahead of time. The panel for the two events will include Mark Boucot, President & CEO at GRMC; Albert Wright, CEO at WVU Medicine; Shane Grady, GRMC Board Chair; and Karl Schwalm, MD, GRMC Board Vice Chair. […]
Read More… from GRMC and WVU Medicine to hold Virtual Forums
Garrett Regional Medical Center (GRMC) has been recognized by The Chartis Center of Rural Health and the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health with a Performance Leadership Award in Outcomes. The Performance Leadership Awards utilize the results of the Hospital Strength INDEX®, the industry’s most comprehensive and objective assessment of rural hospital performance. […]