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Mar 2, 2020

What you should know about coronavirus

Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that are found throughout nature. There are coronaviruses specific to bats and snakes and humans and horses, etc. They all have genes that allow them to bind to your respiratory cells and to potentially cause disease. There are many coronavirus in the family that can infect humans, but generally they cause the mild common cold. Or, they infect people and cause no symptoms at all. COVID-19 is the particular strain of coronavirus that is in the news now, and it was named COVID-19 because it was 2019 when it was discovered. More »

Dec 31, 2019

Stopping by Wyoming Medical Center during cold, flu and RSV season? Be a good visitor

Hospitals are places where sick people come to get well. Visitors are asked to protect the health of their hospitalized friends and family (and themselves) by practicing the basic principles of infection prevention. More »

Dec 31, 2019

'Respiratory season' prompts visitaton restrictions to pediatrics

Winter is flu and RSV season. To protect our youngest patients, we have implemented visitation restrictions for our pediatric unit. More »

May 7, 2019

Paper names Chris Rogers, R.N., one of Wyoming’s Top Nurses

"Chris is one of those people you are honored and thankful to have cross your path in life. She has great rapport with her patients, coworkers, doctors, housekeepers, even the the operators for the hospital on a personal level. She connects well with her patients, really taking time to understand them and what is important to them during a very stressful and vulnerable time in their lives." — Megan Jennings, R.N. More »

May 3, 2019

Paper names Bonnie Norris, R.N., one of Wyoming’s Top Nurses

“Bonnie took care of my husband this January after he had surgery. Her professional yet tender and understanding approach to this very ill man gave me, his wife, the opportunity to relax no matter how each stressful moment occurred, knowing he was in good hands.” More »

Jul 2, 2018

What happens in the WMC W.A.R.R. room?

What happens in the Wyoming Medical Center WARR Room? Nationally certified Critical Care Tech Sally Ann Vasquez explains. More »

Apr 3, 2018

Donate Life Month: WMC nurse/kidney recipient raises flag over hospital

April is National Donate Life Month, a time set aside to encourage Americans to register to become organ, tissue and eye donors while honoring donors who have already given. More »

Dec 18, 2017

Casper Civic Chorale sings Christmas carols to WMC patients

In what has become an annual tradition, about 20 carolers from the Casper Civic Chorale sang traditional Christmas carols to patients and staff Thursday evening. “It’s very rewarding. We know that several patients are in stressful situations or they are in pain. Just to bring a smile to their face is very rewarding,” said Gary Gasser, Chorale president. More »

May 10, 2017

Paper names Rachelle Allmaras Donaldson, R.N., one of Wyoming’s top nurses

Three Wyoming Medical Center nurses were named Wyoming's Top Nurses in the Casper Star-Tribune's special section, “Celebrate Nurses.” We are sharing our interviews with Jennifer Gallagher, Rachelle Donldson and Sarita Reeves throughout the week in celebration of Nurses Week 2017. This is our interview with Rachelle Allmaras Donaldson, a nurse on our medical floor. More »

Apr 27, 2017

Meet our 2016 Employee of the Year: Medical nurse Terry Brown

When her manager told her she’d been picked Wyoming Medical Center Employee of the Year, Terry Brown didn’t believe it. The Medical Unit nurse started naming off her coworkers one by one. “I just work with so many great nurses. And IV. And therapy. And respiratory. You just can’t do this without everybody on the team,” said Brown who has worked at WMC for 18 years, all of them on Medical. The unit has always felt like home, and her coworkers like family. More »

Apr 11, 2017

Germ-killing robots help protect patients from infections

UV light disinfection is the latest advancement in the arm’s race against Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI). As hospitals up the arsenal in new chemicals and cleaning techniques, germs adapt and become harder to kill (similar to how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.) The IRS 1140m UV Light Disinfection system destroys the DNA and RNA micro-organisms need to reproduce. Wyoming Medical Center now employs this system in our never-ending effort to provide the safest, highest-quality of care to everyone who walks through our doors. More »

Feb 1, 2017

Heart Month: Hospital implements new CPR training program to keep skills sharp

To help improve patient care and safety, Wyoming Medical Center is implementing the Resuscitation Quality Improvement® Program, a new training approach to maintaining CPR skills in the healthcare setting. We are the first hospital in the state to implement the program. More »

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