Drive‐Thru COVID‐19 Testing: November 9

Nov 04, 2020 COVID-19, Coronavirus

Free COVID‐19 testing will be offered on Monday, November 9, from 11 a.m. ‐ 1 p.m. in the SMC Ambulance Bay. Please enter west of the Mercer County Ambulance building and drive through the SMC Ambulance Bay to be tested. Pre‐registration at testreg.nd.gov is strongly recommended to speed up your testing experience.

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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.

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.

Home Instead Donates $10,000 to Support SMC Hospice

SMC Hospice recently received a generous $10,000 donation from Home Instead. We are so grateful for their continued partnership and support. This donation will help us continue providing compassionate care and comfort to our hospice patients and their families. Thank you, Home Instead!