HOSPITAL AUTHORITY PURCHASES NEW EQUIPMENT
APRIL 24, 2008

New lights will brighten things up at a couple of Stephens County Hospital operating rooms. The Hospital Authority approved the purchase of new lights for two of the operating rooms at the hospital at their meeting Monday. The purchases continue work that started a year or so ago, according to Stephens County Hospital Administrator Ed Gambrell. "To refresh everybody, we have five operating rooms and we replaced the lights in one of the older rooms about a year ago and so this will replace the lights in the other two of the oldest rooms with brand new lights, much brighter than what we currently have in there," says Gambrell. "It is something that the surgeons really wanted us to get."

Along with the purchase of the new lights, the Hospital Authority also approved the purchase of $25,000 of orthopedic equipment. The third approved purchase will not happen right away, according to hospital officials. Gambrell says new anesthesia machines need to be purchased by the end of 2009 because the producer will not service the old ones anymore. The Authority gave permission to proceed to purchase the machines in a way so the hospital is able to spread out the costs.