Upper Allegheny Health

11 IN THE COMMUNITY PAVILION PATIO GARDEN COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS The newly renovated patio garden for residents of Department Managers and employees from Olean General the Pavilion opened in September and provides a Hospital and Bradford Regional Medical Center gave back to the beautiful outdoor space for residents to enjoy. The community this summer through the Community Connections new garden was planned by Leadership McKean program. Asthma day camps were offered in Bradford and Olean with funding provided by the Bradford Hospital where children learned about managing their condition. Foundation. For the third straight year, hospital employees provided brand new backpacks stuffed with school supplies for elementary school children in Olean, Salamanca YMCA LIMESTONE GRAND OPENING and Hinsdale (NY); and Bradford, Upper Allegheny Health System and the YMCA teamed up in the spring to celebrate the opening of the Smethport and Mount Jewett (PA), YMCA's new gymnasium in Limestone, NY. The building is part of UAHS' Financial Services campus. as part of the Pack a Backpack Collaboration between UAHS and the YMCA resulted in the new home for the YMCA's Olean and program. More than 300 children Bradford gymnastics program. More than 260 young gymnasts now use the facility. received backpacks this year. Achieving Excellence in Healing Chronic Wounds In April, the Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine at Olean General Hospital received a three-year accreditation from the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) for meeting hyperbaric oxygen standards and outcomes. To qualify for this recognition, the UHMS reviewed 25 areas of Olean General Hospital's program during a two-day period. "The Center staff worked toward this accreditation for more than a year, both from an administrative and clinical perspective," said Arthur M. Goldstein, M.D., FACS, Medical Director of the Wound Center. "To be honored upon our first review speaks to our precision, organization and quality care." Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used to treat non-healing wounds related to chronic conditions, such as diabetes. During treatment, patients recline in a Sechrist model 3200 hyperbaric oxygen chamber while oxygen is delivered up to three times the normal pressure found in the atmosphere. "Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is also helpful for patients with radiation injuries, chronic infections, necrotizing infections, crushing failed skin graft flaps and carbon monoxide poisoning," Dr. Goldstein said. "We're honored to provide the community with the same level of wound care you'd find at a university-level center." "As a physician, I look at this threeyear accreditation from the Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society—an internationally renowned certification organization—as an affirmation that we are providing safe, quality and state-of-the-art hyperbaric oxygen therapy to our patients." —Pierre E. Dionne, M.D., Medical Director for Hyperbaric Medicine at Olean General Hospital

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