Blog Posts in 2019

  • Neat Feet Clinic at Senior Center

    Daviess Community Hospital announces the schedule for the 2020 DCH Neat Feet Clinic. This service is provided once per month at Senior & Family Services in Washington from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. A Registered Nurse from Daviess Community Hospital will trim toenails, file toenails, assess feet for any abnormalities, and apply lotion to groomed feet. The Registered Nurse will also instruct each ...

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  • Equipment Upgrade at Daviess Community Hospital

    Daviess Community Hospital is pleased to announce the newest MRI software upgrade at their Washington facility. The Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique that uses a magnetic field and computer-generated radio waves to create detailed images of the organs and tissues in your body. Most MRI machines are large, tube-shaped magnets. “The equipment itself still looks ...

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  • Alicia Fields Receives Endocrine Specialty Certificate from Duke University

    Alicia Fields, DNP, FNP-C, RYT of Washington received a specialty certificate in endocrinology from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Fields is the first nurse practitioner in Indiana to successfully complete this program. In 2016, Duke University launched the first endocrinology specialty in the United States for nurse practitioners. Duke University School of Nursing recently received ...

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  • Community Health Needs Survey

    Every 3 years DCH completes a Community Health Needs Assessment. We are seeking YOUR feedback on the health needs of our community. Please fill out the survey here: surveymonkey.com/r/D27G57C

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  • Daviess Community Hospital Becomes a Milk Bank Location

    Daviess Community Hospital is the latest hospital in Indiana to be recognized as a collection site for human milk to be used to help babies whose mothers are unable to produce milk or enough milk to help them thrive. The Milk Bank is a non-profit organization that promotes community health by expanding the safe use of human milk for all babies, especially premature and ill infants. Founded in 2005 ...

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  • Nurse Practitioner joins DCH Wound Care Clinic

    Daviess Community Hospital is pleased to welcome Lori Day, FNP-C CWON, to the DCH Wound Care Clinic. Lori is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner and certified Wound Ostomy Registered Nurse with over 25 years’ of comprehensive clinical nursing, and leadership experience. Since 2014, she has worked in the specialty practice setting of wound and ostomy care. She is dedicated to providing ...

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  • 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment Kickoff Meeting

    2019 Community Health Needs Assessment Kickoff Meeting August 23, 2019 (Washington, IN) – Daviess Community Hospital was the site for a kick off meeting today for the 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). Thirty-five key stakeholders from Daviess County participated and have committed to actively participate in this year’s 2019 CHNA focus groups. Phil Ellis and Collette Rhoads ...

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  • Daviess Community Hospital partners with Pike Central School Corporation

    (Washington, IN) – Pike Central School Corporation has partnered with Daviess Community Hospital to be the exclusive provider of athletic training services for their student athletes and sports teams. Under the agreement, an athletic trainer from Daviess Community Hospital’s CORE Center will be onsite daily to provide medical care to Pike Central athletes and teams. This arrangement ...

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  • DCH Receives Award

    Washington, IN – Daviess Community Hospital has received an award from the Indiana Cancer Consortium’s (ICC’s) Employer Gold Standard Initiative. The award is given to recognize employers who help establish the workplace as a primary setting to focus on early detection and appropriate screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers. Sharon Mead, RN OCN, serves as the ...

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  • Daviess Community Hospital Welcomes Pediatrician Dr. Tanya de la Vergne

    Daviess Community Hospital is pleased to announce that Tanya de la Vergne, MD, has joined the medical staff at Daviess Community Hospital and will serve as a full-time pediatrician at Grand Avenue Pediatrics. Dr. de la Vergne and her husband, Dr. John Stafford, recently moved to Washington from Decatur, Alabama. As a physician and mother of four, she brings 23 years of expertise and personal ...

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  • Daviess Community Hospital Launches EMS Services

    Daviess Community Hospital launches EMS Services (Washington, IN) – Daviess Community Hospital is pleased to announce beginning July 15, 2019, DCH EMS will begin providing 911 coverage to Daviess County residents. On July 1 st, DCH EMS began staffing one ambulance during the daytime hours. This crew has been doing some inter-facility transfers of patients from DCH. During this timeframe, the ...

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  • NEW Perinatal Navigator at DCH

    Article on DCH New Perinatal Navigator can be found at: https://www.washtimesherald.com/news/local_news/combating-infant-mortality/image_b2ffe0f6-5191-51bb-9030-a84f49e9851e.html

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  • DCH FOUNDATION RECOGNIZES 2019 HEALTH CAREERS SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

    DCH FOUNDATION RECOGNIZES 2019 HEALTH CAREERS SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS Washington, IN -Daviess Community Hospital Foundation held the 2019 Health Career Scholarship Award Reception on Sunday, May 19, 2019 for scholarship recipients. Recipients, special guests, hospital personnel, and Foundation Board members attended the reception in the DCH Education Center. Ten area students were recognized for ...

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  • Annual Foundation Kentucky Derby Fundraiser Success

    DCH FOUNDATION HOSTS “KENTUCKY DERBY FUNDRAISER” While the inclement weather made for a muddy track at Churchill Downs, the indoor festivities were warm and dry on May 4 th as Daviess Community Hospital Foundation hosted their 5 TH Annual “Kentucky Derby Fundraiser”. Over 110 people were registered for the event with the purpose of raising money to support the Oncology ...

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  • Flag Day Essay Contest

    2019 Flag Day Essay Contest "What the Flag Means to Me" DUE May 24th at 5 pm.

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  • Lilly Oncology Exhibit

    LILLY ONCOLOGY ON CANVAS AT DCH ART EXHIBIT TO RUN THROUGH APRIL 29 TH (Washington, IN) – Lilly Oncology on Canvas, an international art exhibit honoring the journeys traveled by millions of people affected by cancer worldwide, is on display at Daviess Community Hospital through April 29th. A dozen works of art adorn the hospital’s main lobby for visitors to enjoy. “Our patient ...

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  • Now Open: Lohano Center for Advanced Medicine

    After months of fundraising and construction, a dream became a reality when Daviess Community Hospital officially cut the ribbon for the Lohano Center for Advanced Medicine Tuesday evening. Read full story here.

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  • Live Well Daviess County

    [Washington, IN] – Community residents are invited to participate in Community Conversations relating to the health and quality of life in Daviess County. Conversations will be centered on issues relating to: substance use, access to health care, obesity and mental health. The Community Conversations will be led by Daviess Community Hospital, Purdue Extension Office, IU School of Public ...

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  • Washington High School Workplace Simulation Project Kick-off

    Washington High School Workplace Simulation Project Kick-off (Washington, IN) – The Washington High School Workplace Simulation Project (WSP) will kick-off on Wednesday, February 27 th at Daviess Community Hospital in Washington, Indiana. The kickoff will begin a phased implementation designed in partnership with Daviess Community Hospital, DirectEmployers Institute, and the Center for P-16 ...

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  • DCH Will Provide Ambulance Servce

    Article written by: Mike Grant Times Herald https://www.washtimesherald.com/news/local_news/dch-will-provide-ambulance-service/article_c09f1fb1-e67d-5b29-a287-060a8c750f43.html After more than a month of discussions and meetings, the Daviess County Commissioners have awarded the ambulance contract to Daviess Community Hospital. The hospital will take operations at the end of the year from ...

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  • DCH Hosts Physician Recognition Dinner

    January 31, 2019 (WASHINGTON, IN) – Daviess Community Hospital recently honored area physicians for their years of service by hosting the annual recognition dinner at the Washington Country Club. Many physicians, members of the Board of Governors and spouses were in attendance. Tracy Conroy, CEO, welcomed the group and Dr. David Blemker provided a prayer before the meal. Following dinner, ...

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  • Hospital Receives Generous Donations for New Oncology Project

    Daviess Community Hospital Foundation Board members and DCH Executive Team members recently received generous donations for the hospital’s Oncology Project from the Moose Lodge #1080 as well as the DCH Auxiliary. Both organizations donated $25,000.00. As a result of these donations, each organization will have an exam room in the new clinic spaced named in their honor. Another donor has ...

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  • DCH Sleep Disorders Center Receives Accreditation

    DCH Sleep Disorders Center Receives Accreditation (Washington, IN) –Terre HauteDai Daviess Community Hospital is pleased to announce that the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) has granted accreditation for a period of five years to the DCH Sleep Disorders Center. This accreditation includes all types of sleep testing, including in-center polysomnography (PSG), multiple sleep latency ...

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  • First Baby of 2019 Born at DCH

    First Baby of 2019 Born at DCH Daviess Community Hospital Announces 1 st Baby of 2019 ( Washington, IN ) — Ringing in the New Year in a hospital bed is not what people typically plan or look forward to unless they are due to have a baby during this time. Oddly enough, January 1 st passed this year without a single baby delivered at Daviess Community Hospital. In the early morning hours of ...

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