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Columbus Community Hospital CEO James Vacek and Board Chair Pat Gillespie discuss improvements. PHOTOGRAPHY BY LYDIA FORD Columbus Community Hospital is building a healthier community with its recent groundbreaking for construction of a new wellness center, as well as other improvements to their entire campus. “Together, our team is building excellence in our community,” said James Vanek, CEO of Columbus Community Hospital. “And what do I mean by excellence? It’s that we take every patient seriously. We want them to have the best care that Columbus Community Hospital can provide.”
“We’re doing a major renovation within the hospital itself,” added Vanek. “We’re adding a couple of operating rooms, expanding our emergency room, our laboratory department, and making the flow in our hospital more congenial for our patients. Also, with that we’ve added some fantastic opportunities with our physical therapy department. It’s been a very good, active program and we’ve outgrown the space. We’re building a brand-new building that will encompass our physical therapy department, a pool, fitness center, and community room. It’s something this is most needed here on our campus.”
With changes going on in several departments, Vanek talked about the improvements that patients can come to expect in the near future at their hometown hospital.
Elaborating on the changes to the physical therapy facility, Pat Gillespie, chair of the board of directors, joined Vanek in praising the plan to grow Columbus Community Hospital into a model facility.
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