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Palomar Medical Center Escondido Ranked in the Top 200 in the U.S. by Newsweek Newsweek ranked Palomar Medical Center Escondido as a top 200 hospital in the United States in a report released this week ranking the world’s best hospitals. In collaboration with Statista Inc., a global research and consumer data company, Newsweek ranked hospitals around the globe using hospital recommendations from peers, patient experience surveys measuring hospital satisfaction, and 25 commonly used measures including patient wait time, care team communication, quality of treatment, and employee pay. Newsweek ranked Palomar Medical Center Escondido as a top 200 hospital in the United States in a report released this week ranking the world’s best hospitals. In collaboration with Statista Inc., a global research and consumer data company, Newsweek ranked hospitals around the globe using hospital recommendations from peers, patient experience surveys measuring hospital satisfaction, and 25 commonly used measures including patient wait time, care team communication, quality of treatment, and employee pay.
Even though the kidney transplant occurred more than a year ago, Palomar Health Nurse Educator Lisa Hernandez still gets choked up when talking about the gratitude her family feels for the donor who gave his kidney to her godson, Chris. Dialysis can be life altering with the need to go to the hospital several times a week for many hours at a time, plus the probable reality of still needing a kidney transplant as some time in the future. The national organ registry, Donate Life, worked with San Diego’s local chapter Lifesharing San Diego, to facilitate the organ transfer and transplant. Nurse Educator Lisa Hernandez gets emotional when talking about the life-saving kidney her godson/nephew received last year.
The Poway Rodeo presented the Palomar Health Foundation with a check for $2,500 to support the Jean McLaughlin Women’s Center’s 3D Mammography Technology on March 15. From left to right: Virginia Barragan, Lynne Deberry, Dr. Michele McGahan, Murray Bankhead, Lisa, Darci Palmer Ban Meter, Patrick Glass, Wayne Herron, Jyl Delarosa The Poway Rodeo presented the Palomar Health Foundation with a check for $2,500 to support the Jean McLaughlin Women’s Center’s 3D Mammography Technology on March 15. From left to right: Virginia Barragan, Lynne Deberry, Dr. Michele McGahan, Murray Bankhead, Lisa, Darci Palmer Ban Meter, Patrick Glass, Wayne Herron, Jyl Delarosa
Staff has been transitioning patients from the downtown Escondido campus to Citracado Parkway throughout the month with plans to completely transition all patients by the end of the month, meaning some patients will experience both the old facility and equipment and the new. Once a patient is diagnosed with a cancerous tumor and a radiation oncologist has prescribed radiation treatment, staff leads the patient to the CT simulator that takes precise body calculations and helps Unikewicz and staff program the TrueBeam system to deliver precise treatments. Once the technician leaves the room and closes the two-foot thick lead and steel door, the TrueBeam system rotates 360 degrees around the patient delivering radiation beams shaped to match the size and shape of the tumor utilizing 120 computer-controlled mechanical fingers. One of the biggest benefits of the new machine’s technology is its ability to safely deliver higher doses of radiation in narrowly targeted areas while leaving surrounding healthy tissue unaffected.