On Thursday, Union Hospital Clinton received the Community Impact Award from the Indiana Department of Health and State Office of Rural Health.
Each year, the state agencies recognize Indiana’s critical access hospitals and their staff members in various categories of excellence. The Community Impact Award is given to a critical access hospital that has made a major impact on its community on any healthcare-related measure.
Despite the challenges the pandemic created for the healthcare system, the development and implementation of Heart Scans played a key role in the Community Impact distinction, along with being a Stroke Ready and Chest Pain Center designated facility.
“We’re honored to receive this award on behalf of the incredible work that every single UHC staff member performs on a daily basis, Will Lohse, RN, SCRN, UHC Stroke Program Coordinator, said. “We will continue to strive toward that leading front edge of stroke and cardiovascular care in Parke and Vermillion counties. From our Heart Scan program, earning both of our Chest Pain and Stroke Ready accreditations – which we’re one of only seven Critical Access Hospitals to do so – all are ways to keep our care local and take care of our community's most pressing needs.”
Union Hospital Clinton is just one of 35 hospitals across the Hoosier state designated as a Critical Access Hospital.