STAYING WELL
EPH wellness initiatives, progress By Estes Park Health For the Trail-Gazette
care services help folks with minor injuries or illnesses get appropriate care without espite the great chalhaving to visit the EPH lenges in health care Emergency Department. in 2020, Estes Park In addition, we moved our Health has had a remarkably Rehabilitative Services progressive year so far. In (physical, speech, and occufact, there have been many with an opportunity to finally pational therapy) and many silver linings that have result- build an Urgent Care Center of our Specialty Clinic serviced from the challenges of at a wonderful mid-town loca- es to that new building. The 2020. Safety of patients, visition at 420 Steamer Drive. view from our Rehab gym is tors, and staff has always With the building owners breathtaking. The Urgent been, and always will be, at (Alarado), Saunders Heath Care Center has been a the forefront of every action Construction, and many oth- remarkable success already, we take, and we’ve been able er participating contractors and we expect it to be a key to make several key advance- and suppliers, and with help part of healthcare in Estes ments in safe, quality care for from the Town of Estes Park Park for many years to come. our Estes community. and the state overseers, we In addition to this great First and foremost, after were able to open the Urgent step forward for local healthmany years of needing a true Care Center in late May of care, EPH has made great urgent care facility in Estes 2020, just in time for the busy strides at the EPH campus at Park, EPH was presented tourist season. Our urgent 555 Prospect Avenue. In
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March, the state-mandated COVID shutdown of elective and non-critical servicesslowed things down. In May and June, we’ve been able to safely reopen our elective surgeries, our clinic, and other services to our community. During the shutdown, EPH built out additional negative-pressure rooms to handle COVID and other infectious diseases with maximum safety. We went from having two negative pressure rooms to a surge capacity of ten such rooms. In addition, we were able to launch our new telehealth program. This has long been a goal of EPH, to provide the see EPH, pg. 11
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