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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
A Variety of Disciplines, Several Locations
As stated on its website, Guthrie County Hospital is dedi-
cated to “meeting the health care needs of our community
through personalized treatment with up-to-the-minute
training in a variety of disciplines and nurturing care that
allows our patients to improve in a familiar environment
close to home.”
To provide a full range of health care services that are easily
accessible to area residents, Guthrie County Hospital also
operates the GCH Specialty Clinic in Guthrie Center and
GCH Family Medicine Clinics in Adair, Panora, and Stuart.
Guthrie County Hospital provides services including 24/7
Emergency Care, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Fitness Center,
Laboratory, Medical Nutritional Therapy, Outpatient
Infusion & Injections, Physical Therapy, Occupational
& Speech Therapy, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Radiol-
ogy Services, Sleep Studies, Social Services, Surgery, and
Skilled Care.
The GCH Specialty Clinic offers Audiology, Internal
Medicine, Cardiology, Mental Health, Skin Health,
Nephrology, Ear, Nose & Throat, Radiology Services,
Oncology, Gastroenterology, Gynecology, Orthopedics,
Pain Clinic, Physical Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Podiatry,
Sleep Studies, and Surgery.
TLAN Provides More Bandwidth
Keeping these facilities connected in terms of electronic
communications is one of the responsibilities of Jeff Cobb,
IT Manager for Guthrie County Hospital. Cobb notes, “The
number of applications required to operate a health care
facility has increased dramatically over the last several years,
so more bandwidth became essential in order to offer all the
applications and services our users need every day.”
Several years ago, Panora Telco and Guthrie Center
Communications replaced the previously used T1 circuit with
TLAN (Transparent Local Area Network) service to provide
more bandwidth. “The flexibility of bandwidth options and
security of the TLAN are key features that make the service
very valuable. By utilizing a reliable service like TLAN, our
staff is able to access patient records more efficiently than
ever before and communicate with all of our locations with
greater ease and efficiency,” explains Cobb.
Guthrie County
Hospital
and Clinics
Bandwidth is an increasingly
vital part of delivering health care
Guthrie County Hospital is a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital (CAH) located in Guthrie Center, Iowa.
The CAH designation is given to certain rural hospitals by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services to reduce their financial vulnerability and improve patient access to health care by keeping
essential services in rural communities.