In celebration of Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, the Convenience Clinic at Sakakawea Medical Center will be closed. Patients needing immediate medical assistance will need to report to the Emergency Room.
SMC Convenience Clinic closed on December 24th and December 31st
Dec 16, 2016
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Welcome Dr. Ann Ruffo
Sakakawea Medical Center and Coal Country Community Health Center are pleased to welcome Ann Ruffo, DO, to our team. Dr. Ruffo will primarily be serving patients at CCCHC Hazen. She will also be providing care in the emergency room at SMC.
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A personal touch for personal care
In March, Paul Doll spent a three-day stay at the hospital in Hazen while receiving IV treatment for diverticulitis, receiving continual and personal care from Amanda Boyer, RN and other doctors and nurses he knew and trusted here in his hometown.
History of the Hazen Hospital: Celebrating 75 Years
In the fall of 1918, Hazen got an inadvertent and temporary hospital when its new school building was equipped with 24 beds and a staff of five Bismarck nurses to cope with the Spanish influenza epidemic. The facility closed shortly after. There was not even a temporary hospital when a sleeping sick ness (encephalitis) epidemic hit the community in the spring of 1923.