October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Join us on Wednesday, October 14 for SMC's Mammography Marathon from 7 a.m. ‐ 7 p.m. We offer 3D Mammography! Call 7017487278 to schedule. In addition, the 4th Annual Women's World of Wellness event will be taking place virtually October 12‐16. Each day will be focused on a different topic relating to women’s health. Find the event Women’s World of Wellness
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Mammography Marathon & Women's World of Wellness
Sep 23, 2020
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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.
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Healing at Home
Despite undergoing a scary illness earlier this year, Kent Larson is now on the mend. He said this was largely due to the quality care provided by nursing staff at the hospital, as well as making use of the outpatient services available at the Sakakawea Medical Center Treatment Room that allowed Kent to spend much of his healing process at home. Kent is pictured here in that treatment room where he received his daily IV antibiotics. Beside him is Molly Nelson, RN, Nursing Care Coordinator, who helped care for him through his healing process.
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New Machine Aids Patient Prescription Access
Sakakawea Medical Center has introduced a new InstyMeds dispensing machine, giving patients 24/7 access to one-time prescription medications right at the hospital.