Community Hospitals

Hospital Success Stories

Hospital Success Stories

At GE Healthcare, we enjoy hearing how our Community Hospital customers succeed and grow their imaging services. You've told us that you also like learning about the successes of your peers. See the examples below to learn how some hospitals' imaging capabilities and best practices helped them stand out from their competition.

Multi-slice CT plays key role in Critical Access Hospital’s strategic growth plans     Multi-slice CT plays key role in Critical Access Hospital's strategic growth plans
When Wills Memorial Hospital, located in rural Georgia, embarked on a strategic effort to ensure they could continue to serve their community of 20,000+ residents, they made the strategic decision to upgrade their single-slice CT scanner to gain greater imaging flexibility and expand their diagnostic capabilities.
       
       
Leading-edge LightSpeed VCT scanner is putting advanced applications & speed in the hands of community hospitals     Leading-edge LightSpeed VCT scanner is putting advanced applications & speed in the hands of community hospitals
There was a time when cutting-edge CT imaging was reserved for major teaching and tertiary institutions, and advanced applications were the exclusive domain of researchers. See how two community hospitals are positioned at the forefront of diagnostic medicine using 64-slice VCT.
       
       
LightSpeed VCT maximizes uptime for
busy community hospitals     LightSpeed® VCT maximizes uptime for busy community hospitals
For a community hospital without the luxury of backup equipment, unplanned downtime can create disruptions for the facility while negatively impacting patient satisfaction. This is a major reason that GE’s LightSpeed VCT 64-slice system is so appreciated by radiology managers at community hospitals around the world.
       
       
Increasing Patient Throughput by Investing in Digital Mammography     Increasing Patient Throughput by Investing in Digital Mammography
Find out how ProHealth Care's Center for Breast Care of Waukesha, WI doubled throughput & improved competitive differentiation by replacing their original digital system and 5 film-screen units with 3 GE digital mammography systems.
       
       
Improving Patient Satisfaction by Upgrading to 64-slice VCT     Improving Patient Satisfaction by Upgrading to 64-slice VCT
Read why Nathan Littauer Hospital, a 74-bed independent hospital in Gloversville, New York, made the leap from single-slice to 64-slice CT and how both volume and patient satisfaction have grown as a result.
       
       
Transforming CT Imaging Services with Lightning Fast VCT     Transforming CT Imaging Services with Lightning Fast VCT
Discover how the GE 64-slice LightSpeed® VCT helped 101-bed Presbyterian Hospital Matthews increase their CT volume by 10%, schedule patients every 15 minutes, and make previously challenging cases like CT angiography "routine."
       
       
Delivering Exceptional Care for Cardiac Patients using VCT Technology     Delivering Exceptional Care for Cardiac Patients using VCT Technology
Learn why St. Francis Hospital of Evanston, Illinois chose the GE 64-slice LightSpeed® VCT and how CT has become integral to the hospital's commitment to comprehensive evaluation of cardiac disease.
       
       
Producing Incredible Images with VCT’s Lower-dose CTA     Producing Incredible Images with VCT's Lower-dose CTA
Read how GE's 64-slice LightSpeed® VCT is giving Boulder Community Hospital a tremendous edge in a highly competitive market and how many of their patients have benefited from a lower-dose CTA.
       
       
Committing to Quality Care by Investing in Imaging     Committing to Quality Care by Investing in Imaging
Find out how A.O. Fox's partnership with GE helped the hospital to expand their market share in their primary service area and to be recognized as a high-technology facility.
       
       
Spurring Growth with Innovative Marketing     Spurring Growth with Innovative Marketing
Read how Fort HealthCare created an innovative marketing strategy using tactics like web banners, billboards and direct mail to position themselves as a formidable healthcare provider and to achieve hospital growth.
       
       
Replacing an Aging CT System with PET/CT     Replacing an Aging CT System with PET/CT
Lewiston Hospital, a 139-bed community hospital in rural Pennsylvania, replaced its aging CT system and mobile PET service with a GE Healthcare PET/CT scanner. Read why Lewiston made the decision, how they built a business case and how the scanner has affected patient care, referrals, staff satisfaction and imaging department workflow.
       
       
Adding MR Capabilities for the First Time     Adding MR Capabilities for the First Time
St. John's Lutheran Hospital in Libby, Montana, wanted to keep their patients close to home for MR imaging, rather than sending them to hospitals a considerable distance outside the community. Discover why they chose a fixed MRI versus a mobile service and how the hospital reached its five-year monthly scan volume projections after only nine months of MR operations.
       
       
Transitioning from Mobile to Fixed MR     Transitioning from Mobile to Fixed MR
Learn how Saunders County Medical Center in Wahoo, Nebraska, made the decision to replace their mobile MR with a fixed system and which clinical capabilities in their new system specifically enabled them to "level the playing field" with larger facilities.
       
       
MR as a Growth Driver for Community Hospital     MR as a Growth Driver for Community Hospital
Discover how Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois, made the "mission critical" decision to add an in-house GE MR system and how they successfully promoted the new MR capabilities in the very competitive Chicago-area marketplace.