If someone's having a heart attack or a stroke, we know time is critical for treatment. Response to sepsis is just as emergent. For sepsis, it is critical to give the required antibiotics within one hour, 30 minutes for some infections. Sepsis used to be called “blood...
It was frightening for many and heartbreaking for others when the measles outbreak reached 85 people in Washington state and killed one person in the United States. An even greater tragedy for our state is the 241 deaths from influenza during the 2018-2019 season, including two...
Are you interested in becoming a EMT and working with one of the best Emergency Medical Systems on the Olympic Peninsula? You missed this course, but, we will offer another in the summer. Click here for complete course details. Applications are available here and in HR at...
Bogachiel Clinic is pleased to offer a FREE sport physical to students in grades 7 - 12 during the 2019-2020 school year. On Monday, August 12th the Bogachiel Clinic will be providing free sports physicals to students grades 7 - 12 in the Forks High School...
The Forks Community Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Council will be dedicated to enhancing health care for all patients with the patients at the center of all decisions. It is the goal of Forks Community Hospital to create a Patient and Family Advisory Council to improve...
What should I do if I have been exposed to the measles or am not immune? [caption id="attachment_24170" align="aligncenter" width="212"] Click image above to view PDF document[/caption]...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [unordered_list style='circle' number_type='circle_number' animate='no' font_weight=''] Each day, ten Americans die from asthma, and in 2015, 3,615 people died from asthma. Many of these deaths are avoidable with proper treatment and care. Adults are four times more...
Tina Warner, Ted Cress, and 7 others joined the Forks Community Hospital Great American Smoke Out which ran May 16, 2018 - May 16, 2019. Tina and Ted have quit smoking and the 7 others are well on thier way to joining them. Is this...
Forks Community Hospital has joined UW, Harborview Medical Center, Evergreen, Overlake, and Virginia Mason in offering the Bardy CAM Patch for quality cardiac data recording and diagnostics. We are the 1st to offer this non-invasive heart monitoring solution: ECG Patch Monitor on the Peninsula. For more...
As many as 11 million Americans may have heart valve disease, (HVD), according to the Alliance for Aging Research. HVD is a potentially disabling and deadly disease, yet 3 out of 4 Americans know little to nothing about the disease. In an article published by Mayo...