FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDIXON, Ill. – KSB Hospital has not received any medications from the New England Compounding Center (NECC) that have been tied to the meningitis outbreak.Many local hospitals, including KSB Hospital, have been included in some media reports in relation to the NECC products. However, KSB Hospital has not received any product tied to [...]
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Jump With Jill Comes To Local Schools In October
October 11, 2012 – 12:20 pm
A rock star is coming to the Sauk Valley, but it’s not your typical singer or band. This one is a nutritional rock star. Jump with Jill, starring registered dietitian and musician Jill Jayne, MS, RD, will be performed at Dixon, Polo and Oregon elementary schools in October as part of Community Wellness initiative.The multimedia nutrition [...]
KSB Hospital To Implement Electronic Health Records System
September 20, 2012 – 1:00 pm
KSB Hospital’s CIS DepartmentSome big changes are coming toKSB Hospital’s Clinical Information Services (CIS) Department.The two biggest ones, implementing the new eSOAR electronic health records system and striving to meet the federal government’s meaningful use standards, go hand in hand.A third change, a complete physical restructuring of the department, is an offshoot of the first [...]
David Deets, MD, Talks Corporate Health On WIXN
September 19, 2012 – 2:58 pm
David Deets, M.D., is a member of the KSB Medical Group and a staff physician in KSB’s Corporate Health Services Department. He appeared on WIXN’s Talk Line in August with Steve Marco. Listen to Dr. Deets…
KSB Hospital Wins Quality Excellence Award
September 13, 2012 – 4:34 pm
Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital has been awarded the Quality Excellence Achievement Award by the Illinois Hospital Association for process improvements put in place in the Emergency Department.KSB received the award from among 67 applicants in the rural hospital category. It was one of three finalists for the honor.“We knew we had made a huge improvement in [...]
Laxman Iyer, MD, Talks Community Wellness on WIXN
July 11, 2012 – 5:16 pm
Laxman Iyer, MD, is a KSB Medical Group Cardiologist with an above-and-beyond commitment to community wellness. Dr. Iyer recently started the “Walk with a Doc” program in conjunction with KSB Community Wellness. Community members meet each Saturday morning at Dixon’s Lowell Park to walk with Dr. Iyer in a friendly, healthy setting.Listen to Dr. Iyer’s involvement [...]
KSB Community Wellness Partners on Heritage Walk
July 6, 2012 – 7:48 am
Community organizations collaborate to offer walking paths in downtown Dixon DIXON, Ill. – KSB Community Wellness partnered with local organizations to create four Heritage Walk routes featuring the Rock River and the historic downtown Dixon area. KSB Community Wellness, the Dixon Family YMCA, the Dixon Riverfront Commission, and the Dixon Park District collaborated to create [...]
New Procedure Helps Restore Hearing
July 3, 2012 – 8:58 am
Space-age technology that has helped the United States explore the deepest regions of the universe can now be put to use much closer to home. The technology has been incorporated into osteo-integrated cochlear implants to restore hearing in patients with conductive or mixed hearing loss or single-sided deafness. “It has a 20-year track record in [...]
New Video: This is the hospital…
June 13, 2012 – 6:02 pm
KSB Hospital is the recipient of back-to-back awards, in 2011 and 2012, for an Outstanding Patient Experience from HealthGrades. KSB Hospital ranks in the Top 5% of U.S. hospitals for the second consecutive year.
