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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