Whitman Hospital to offer new medical services

COLFAX — The Whitman Hospital and Medical Clinics Board of Commissioners discussed new services to be offered, including wound care and nuclear medicine, during the Wednesday, Aug. 21, regular hospital board meeting.

Chief Nursing Officer Bill Bryant told hospital commissioners that the wound care is close to a start, and will be offering services Monday, Sept. 9.

“We’re very close to our start, we did have to push back a couple of weeks,” said Bryant, noting the delay was the result of implementing, Epic, a software which inputs data for the hospital.

“We did get our contracted consultant on...