Business Briefcase for Aug. 5

New positions

▪ Good Shepherd Health Care System in Hermiston welcomes Dr. Daniel Buck as its newest member as an emergency room physician. Buck is originally from Hermiston.

He completed an internship in surgery, served as a certified anesthesia technician and spent time in the Oregon Army National Guard as an emergency medical technician.

Honors

▪ The Port of Benton was honored for its efforts to promote job creation with an award from the Washington Public Ports Association.

The port received the industry group’s Outstanding Job Creator Award at the spring conference, held in May.

The port was lauded for providing space to Kurion, which works on nuclear waste disposal issues, and for selling a 4.2-acre site to IsoRay Medical for its office and laboratory expansion.

“Finding ways to support, grow and recruit companies such as Kurion and IsoRay are critical to our future long-term success,” said Dihann Howard, director of economic and governmental affairs.

▪ Trios Health has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get with the Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award.

The award recognizes that Trios Southridge Hospital has reached its goal of treating stroke patients with 85 percent or higher compliance to core standard levels of care as outlined by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for 12 consecutive months or more. In addition, Gold Plus hospitals must demonstrate 75 percent compliance to seven out of 10 stroke quality measures during the 12-month period.

Trios Southridge Hospital was added to the “Target: Stroke Honor Roll,” a recognition given to those delivering the fastest quality service for stroke patients. The Kennewick hospital was among those that achieved time to intravenous thrombolytic therapy of 60 minutes or less in 50 percent or more of applicable acute ischemic stroke patients.

Certification

▪ Sunnyside Community Hospital has been designated by the Washington Department of Health as a Level I Cardiac facility.

The state’s Emergency Cardiac and Stroke System was created to reduce the time between the reporting of a cardiac or stroke emergency and the treatment of the patient. A Level I designation is the highest in the state’s system.

The designation allows emergency medical services to transport patients in cardiac distress directly to Sunnyside Community Hospital for treatment. Prior to the designation, patients were transported to Yakima or the Tri-Cities for emergency cardiac care.

The hospital upgraded its suite of cardiac services in February 2016, adding 24-hour cardiac catheterization.

Other requirements include having a designated cardiac response team led by a cardiologist, emergency nursing staff trained in advanced cardiac life support, and interventional and diagnostic services available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Tri-City Herald

This story was originally published August 4, 2016 at 7:13 PM with the headline "Business Briefcase for Aug. 5."