Hospital to Add Ultrasound Technology, Hyperbaric Wound Care

DAYTON—When they met on Nov. 27, the Columbia County Hospital District Board of Commissioners approved a request from CEO Shane McGuire to apply for a loan to purchase a GE ultrasound machine for regular diagnostic and cardiac testing.

So far this year there have been 362 ultrasound referrals, which adds up to eight months of work for an ultrasound technologist working one day a week, McGuire told the commissioners. All the physicians have been asking for ultrasound technology, he added.

McGuire said the cost for the ultrasound equipment is about $90,000.

He also reported that utreach and busi...