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Hawarden Regional Healthcare is home to a 160-slice CT scanner, the most sophisticated scanner in the Midwest between The Mayo Clinic and Denver.
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Hawarden area residents to think of Hawarden first.”
Hawarden Regional Healthcare wants to get the city’s best kept secret out in the open. Perhaps to the surprise of many, Hawarden Regional Healthcare has the area’s most advanced medical technology, almost without exception. The days of Hawarden residents needing to drive 20 or 50 miles to undergo the most up-to-date medical procedures are in the past. According to Hawarden Regional Healthcare CEO Jayson Pullman, “People still drive by on their way somewhere else for procedures because they have it in their minds that the Hawarden hospital doesn’t have the latest and greatest technology. We want 20 | HAWARDEN TODAY
Not only was Hawarden Regional Healthcare (HRH) the first hospital in northwest Iowa to offer 3D mammography on-site, but now it also owns the area’s first 160-slice CT scanner. Computed Tomography (CT) uses special x-ray equipment to obtain images from different angles around the body. A computer processes the images to demonstrate a cross-section of body tissues and organs. CT imaging is useful for visualizing bone, soft tissue, and blood vessels with great clarity. Kayla Dykstra, HRH radiology manager, said the hospital offers in-house CT scans, mammograms, x-rays, and ultrasound. “We are cutting edge on radiology technology,” she said. Pullman said, “When I first got to Hawarden, we had a 2-slice CT scanner. Then we thought we were advanced when we got a 16-slice scanner; now the facility put in a 160-slice.”
