By Tom Neal, CEO of Highlands-Cashiers Hospital I am anticipating the arrival of spring even more than usual this year. Of course, I’m looking forward to the milder temperatures and the explosion of green on […]
By Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal As 2021 comes to a close, I think most of us are not just reflecting on the past year, but the nearly two years that have elapsed since the […]
With the new Omicron strain and the anticipation of a post-holiday surge, it’s expected there will be a need for Covid-19 testing and vaccination services into the new year. Therefore, Optum will continue to provide Covid-19 testing […]
At Highlands-Cashiers Hospital (HCH), outstanding care in an emergency department is about combining compassion and efficiency. With this in mind, hospital staff identified an opportunity to provide the hospital’s doctors with more timely results of […]
By Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal At least once or twice a year, I believe it helps our community to get an overview of what’s happening at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital (HCH), because we’re far from a […]
Despite its geographical isolation, the Highlands and Cashiers area is seeing growth in the healthcare options available to local residents. There are now two healthcare options with a third on its way. The three are […]
By Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal As Highlands-Cashiers Hospital continues to evolve, I realize that growth doesn’t just happen as a result of expanding a facility’s square footage, recruiting new physicians and staff, enhancing services, […]
3D mammography (tomosynthesis), available at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital, is a tool that helps find more cancers and find those cancers earlier. With traditional mammography, the image is flat. During a 3D mammogram, multiple images are obtained […]
Neal said one step people can take to reverse the toll of COVID-19 on the Plateau is get vaccinated From a public health perspective, there is no more important step that the residents of the […]
Beginning March 2, Mission Health hospitals relaxed visitor restrictions from the previous level two. We continue to evaluate the current COVID-19 cases in our region to find the best balance for our patients and caregivers. […]
Brush up on your knowledge of radon’s risks and Highlands-Cashiers Hospital’s capability to provide advanced lung cancer screening Most people think of tobacco use when they think of lung cancer, but did you know that […]
The first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived and was administered at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital on Saturday, Dec. 19. A total of 202 people received the vaccine during the four-hour clinic. This included 47 residents of Eckerd Living Center, […]
By Highlands-Cashiers Hospital CEO Tom Neal The end of 2020 — a year none of us are likely to forget any time soon — is fast approaching, and for a while now, we’ve known that […]
Despite pleas from Dr. Patti Wheeler, the Hehn family, and CEO/CNO of Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Tom Neal; commissioners recently voted 4 to 1 to deny water/sewer to HCA for proposed workforce housing on its property alongside the entrance […]
Mission Hospital and its sister hospitals in the region collected 129.31 pounds of opioid medications during its “Crush the Crisis” opioid take-back day on Saturday to help combat the nation’s opioid crisis. Community members participated […]