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OrovilleHospital.com Information is knowledge, knowledge is power, and power is health – but where

the Oroville Hospital’s website. “Our website provides all the right

does one begin in this step-by-step quest

information in an easy and understandable

for quality of life? The newly designed

way,” Roelofson says. “You can guide

Oroville Hospital website is an excellent place to start. Freshly refurbished with easy-to-navigate channels thick with information

yourself through your condition and become educated on what you need to do next.” The symptom navigator is among the

and helpful links and

most helpful tools on the new website. It

cleared of virtual

provides a module of the human body,

clutter, the site includes a health encyclopedia,

and wherever a person feels pain or discomfort on their own body he or she can click on the body map and pull up a brief list of possible diagnoses, basic anatomical and medical education,

a symptom

and whether one must immediately call

checker to save

a doctor or whether they may self-treat

you and the

the condition at home. Patients using the

hospital any

website will save time in more clerical

unnecessary visits, and such

matters, too, as online payment options for services and products will save them long

online services as bill

waits on the telephone or in the waiting

payments, easy online

room. Moreover, while perusing the site,

appointment requests,

customers can learn of any events or

and information about

programs at the hospital. Roelofson adds

classes, seminars, and events.

that Oroville Hospital’s website also offers

Online services will never replace the most essential of doctor-patient interactions, yet Oroville Hospital’s patients reap all the convenience and benefits of the Internet age with our new website. “The website is really a window for people to see exactly what goes on in our hospital,” says Shanna Roelofson,

information on financial assistance for those needing help with bills.

“Our website provides all the right information in an easy to understand way.”

Oroville Hospital’s marketing director.

For patients, what this all means is

“We do a lot of great things here, and

convenience and time saved in a life

the redesigned website allows us to

full of better things to do than – let’s face

communicate that to our community.”

it – visiting the hospital. So log on today

Roelofson points out that the Internet

at www.OrovilleHospital.com and reap

is saturated with an abundance of

the information – because information

information – as well as misinformation

is knowledge, knowledge is power, and

– on diseases and conditions, tests and

power is health.

procedures, symptoms and signs, and even prescription drugs. Sifting through this flood of facts and health forum chatter in search of helpful information can be difficult, and people in need of medical care may even be directed off-track and away from the help they need – but not on

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