Upcoming Events
Weekly Construction information for 05/26/2023.
Title: Southeast Colorado Hospital District Construction news:
Southeast Colorado Hospital District patrons:
First of all, all services will remain open and operational during construction and renovation of the facility. As a patron, you will still be able to park at the hospital and medical clinic main entrances. Our staff have prepared serving your needs with minimal delay. Emergency patients will be triaged based on your level of acuity or ailment. There may be occasional settings of rooming with another patient as was the experience when the hospital opened in 1969 and decades later. When completed, you will have private patient rooms with ADA compliant features.
Effective the week of June 5, 2023, contractors will begin setting up their trailers and units in District lots near the hospital. Asbestos mitigation has begun in portions of the hospital. On June 8, 2023 at 1030AM, a ground breaking ceremony will be held on the north end of the main campus off 9th street.
Initially there will be ground work conducted to lay the foundation for the new rehabilitation center and emergency entrance. The north patient care wing will be renovated into private rooms and the west hallway will become the emergency room – trauma spaces.
The District intends to share periodic updates of our progress. You are welcome to view poster board pictures in our main lobby. This is an exciting time for the entire District staff and those we serve.
Dave Engel - CEO
Well Child Visits
The Southeast Colorado Hospital Rural Health Clinic is excited to announce that we are offering Well Child Appointments including vaccines. These appointments enable the child, parents and provider to sit down together and focus on the health and well being of your child, discuss any questions or concerns that you may have, check your child’s growth and development and do a physical exam, get recommended screening test completed and review your child’s immunization records. The SECH RHC is excited to be able to offer the needed immunizations with this new program at our clinic.
Call and make your child an appointment with any of our wonderful providers by calling 719-523-6628.
DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS AT SOUTHEAST COLORADO HOSPITAL DISTRICT
Southeast Colorado Hospital District will be destroying records of people who have not utilized the facility during the last ten years. Children's records will be kept to the age of the majority (18), plus 10 years. Destruction of records will also include Long Term Care records, Southeast Colorado Medical Clinic, Rehabilitation, Home Health and Hospice records. If you have not been seen at our facility during the past 10 years, but would like us to retain your records, please contact the Medical Records Department at (719)-523-2125, 523-2191 or 523-2162 by April 28, 2023. 6. Colo. Code Regs. §1011-1, chap.IV, 8.102 (2008)
Train To Be A Nurse Aide -the next classes start June 5th.
Train To Be A Nurse Aide -the next classes rune June 5th through June 23rd.
Are you looking for a career in healthcare? We can help you get started with a "Free Nurse Aide Class" at Southeast Colorado Hospital District and Long Term Care in Springfield CO.
A Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) is on the front lines of patient / resident care. The nursing assistant position is certainly one of the most vital to daily operations for the nursing care facility, your compassion and skill in patient/resident care will help minimize the stress of those who are sick or unable to care for themselves.
If you are hired by Southeast Colorado Hospital District or Walsh healthcare we have a great opportunity for you. We have set the dates for the next "Free Nurse Aide Class" at Southeast Colorado Hospital District and Long Term Care in Springfield CO.
If you are interested please contact-
o Corey Castle, Human Resources, at 719-523-4501, ext #160 or email ccastle@sechosp.org
o Sheri Reed Director of Nurses (719) 523-2116, ext# 216 or email sreed@sechosp.org.
o Glenice Wade, ADON, (719) 523-2141 ext #141 or email gwade@sechosp.org
Fill out application
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As a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) is on the front lines of patient / resident care. The nursing assistant position is certainly one of the most vital to daily operations for the nursing care facility, your compassion and skill in patient/resident care will help minimize the stress of those who are sick or unable to care for themselves.
Need to start working prior to the CNA class? We offer positions as Support Staff, as you start the transition towards obtaining your Certified Nursing Assistant License.
- You will begin a great career and will be getting paid during while you are attending the Nurse Aide class.
Requirements for the class:
o you must be 16 or older,
o no record of a felony, no violent or theft crime,
o you must pass a drug screening
o you must pass a reading comprehension test
o and pass an interview.
How to apply:
o Corey Castle, Human Resources, at 719-523-4501, ext #160 or email ccastle@sechosp.org
o Sheri Reed Director of Nursing (719) 523-2116, ext# 216 or email residentcare@sechosp.org.
o Glenice Wade, ADON, (719) 523-2141 ext #141 or email gwade@sechosp.org
Benefits:
o SECHD offer competitive wages.
o An increase in wage after certification.
o Full Time employees SECHD offers life insurance of $10 K, Medical, Dental and Vision, Aflac, vacation, and sick time, 3% matching for retirement after 1 year, option for 457.
o Part Time employees Dental and Vision, Aflac, vacation, and sick time, 3% matching for retirement after 1 year, option for 457.
o Per Diem employees (that is as needed if you are not interested in full or part time or maybe you're a full time student and work when you can) you are offered sick time, option for 457 and .50 more per hour.
Personnel and Baca County Residents- "we need your help in correctly avoiding the helicopter and ambulance staging areas around the SECHD Clinic, Helipad, and the area between the emergency room and the hospital."
Each time the helicopters land, hospital personnel set up barricades and attempt to contain the safety area; in and around the helipad, and within the contained areas. We are beginning to see cars driving through the emergency areas and around barricades while we are loading patients from the emergency room to a helicopter flight. We need your help in observing the barricades and staying out of the controlled areas. Please, sit and wait patiently as aviation personnel, emergency responders, medical, and ambulance staff load patients as nationally many have been injured or fatally injured, when the safety zones are violated. Please, observe basic safety principals of sitting and waiting or taking another route to entirely avoid the safety area. Only trained staff should ever get under the rotor system of a helicopter, a vehicle should never be underneath a helicopter rotor for any reason. Even the lightest contact may result in permanent damage. Any contact to the tail rotor of a helicopter can result in serious injury and mechanical failure.
"We need your help" in correctly avoiding the barricaded helicopter and ambulance staging areas around the SECHD Clinic, Helipad, and the area between the emergency room and the hospital." Never drive inside the hospital barricades when they are deployed. Please, park elsewhere and save a life. Please, help us reduce the risk of loss of life, accident, financial, emotional, and physical loss by staying out of the controlled areas.
Each year at tax time we look for ways that our giving can benefit our community and not just be paid in general taxes. Donations to the hospital district or the hospital foundation are a good way to put direction to these finances and other funds we have built-up in our lifetime. Giving can be done in such a way that it will benefit our area and leave a legacy that gives us personal satisfaction. Southeast Colorado Hospital District and Long Term Care Center is your local non-profit that would like you and the people of the Southeast region to think of us as the benefactor as you set up your yearly tax deductions, giving or developing your final will and testament, to "do the most good". Some people in their golden years and retirement are looking for a good place to give their assets and to set up benefactors. Many do not have family but want to see their life's work, giving, and philanthropy live on in our area. Southeast Colorado Hospital District and Long Term Care Center; your local hospital and Long Term Care Center, is a local publicly owned non-profit organization that has served the people of Baca County and the Southeast Region since 1969. Recent legislation includes several provisions to help individuals and businesses who give to charities. The new law generally extends four temporary tax changes through the end of 2021. The IRS overview of the 2021 changes are listed at: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/expanded-tax-benefits-help-individuals-and-businesses-give-to-charity-in-2021 and covers 1.) Deduction for individuals who don't itemize 2.) Cash donations 3.)100% limit on eligible cash contributions made by taxpayers who itemize deductions. 4.) Corporate limit increased to 25% of taxable income.
The standard method of making a contribution to Southeast Colorado Hospital District is to hand carry a donation to 373 E. Tenth Street Springfield CO or mail a check to the Southeast Colorado Hospital District offices at 373 E. Tenth Ave Springfield, CO 81073 Attn: Dorothy Burke. However, this method is not the only form of donation payment mechanism available; please, contact your accountant, legal counsel, or financial advisor for specific questions about your giving. If you have general questions call, (719) 523-4501 and ask for Dorothy Burke or Steve Sanchez. All givers will be given an immediate receipt upon donation of any kind. Non-cash giving can be discussed in a case by case basis.
Southeast Colorado Hospital District and our Foundation have each been approved as an enterprise zone for tax credits when you donate. Information on the state Enterprise Zone program can be found at http://choosecolorado.com/doing-business/incentives-financing/ez/
The Colorado legislature created the Enterprise Zone (EZ) Program to encourage development in economically distressed areas of the state.
In designated enterprise zones:
• businesses are eligible for state income tax credits and sales and use tax exemptions for specific business investments
• economic development projects form by incentivizing taxpayers to contribute through state income tax credits
• taxpayers who contribute to enterprise zone projects may earn income tax credits
Businesses within enhanced rural enterprise zones earn additional tax credits, Southeast Colorado Hospital District is one.
Southeast Colorado Hospital District--Rural Health Clinic offers a 'New Chronic Pain Management'
specialty clinic for patients-"IT'S TIME TO GET YOUR LIFE BACK"! While some pain can be treated through self-care measures, it's important to understand and treat the underlying causes of pain instead of masking the pain with medications. We understand that no two patients are alike. That is why we are dedicated to find the best treatment options that are individualized just for you. We offer a range of cutting-edge opioid alternatives that can relieve chronic pain. LET US HELP YOU FIND THE BEST TREATMENT OPTION FOR YOU. For a consult or an appointment call (719) 523-6628 or (719) 523-2087.
LATE CLINIC -Southeast Colorado Medical Clinic resumed extended office hours.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING: *An appointment must be called and scheduled. Due to social distancing/crowd control rules we cannot offer "walk in" appointments at this time. Please, call 719-523-6628.
TELEHEALTH appointments are available during this time frame. See the provider from the comfort of your own home.
TELEHEALTH appointments are available during this time frame. See the provider from the comfort of your own home.Appointments will be from 4pm-6pm. If no slots are scheduled after 5pm by 5pm, the clinic will close at that time.
Appointment slots are for URGENT, ACUTE illness or injury of a singular nature (ie-ONE complaint). Appointments are scheduled to be very brief. The provider will ask you to make a follow up/regular appointment for any complex, ongoing or numerous issues.
If a complex work up is required in an urgent matter, you may be referred to the emergency department.
If you are not insured, please remember we do have a sliding scale system for discounted visits.
Weekly COVID-19 notification-VISITOR POLICY
Dear Patient and Families,
To ensure excellent patient care, as well as family and visitor safety, the Southeast Colorado Hospital District team are working around the clock to stay on top of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. We continue to monitor the spread of COVID-19 in our community and may update the guidelines as needed to provide the safest care to everyone.
