I looked around the new Star Valley Health Oncology and Infusion Center at the Ribbon Cutting ceremony last Thursday March 20 and thought, ‘just one more improvement to local health care that I would not have imagined when first covering hospital board meetings back in the ‘90s.’ (Yes, I’m that old.)
Those were the meetings when all of us, even the newspaper reporter, wanted our hospital to succeed. It was important to our little family and everyone living in Star Valley.
As time passed, additional services were added, physicians with specialty care, clinics in Thayne and Alpine and now standing in the new center this past week — the high tech oncology and infusion center.
If our residents are already going through a difficult time with their health, this new and expanded center means they may not have to travel for their treatment. That’s a benefit to both patient and family member or care-giver.
Some of that treatment, as noted on the SV Health website includes the following:
Chemotherapy and supportive therapies, blood transfusion, hydration therapy, emphysema treatment (PROLASTIN, ZEMAIRA), crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis (REMICADE), Multiple sclerosis (Solu-Medrol, TYSABRI, OCREVUS), osteoporosis (Prolia, RECLAST, Zometa) and Iron deficiency anemia (FERAHEME, Injectafer).
We are fortunate to have such a hospital in a small rural Wyoming area.
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