Samaritan Healthcare | The Samaritan | Winter 2018

Winter 2018 5 HELP US REACH OUR GOAL Your support means continual enhancements to local healthcare. If you would like to make a tax- deductible donation or receive more information about the Samaritan Healthcare Foundation, we’d love to speak with you! Call 793-9645 or email foundation@samaritanhealthcare.com . anywhere in the northwest.Then a year after we sent the donation, Jack had a second heart attack and needed cardiac rehab! Having rehab in Moses Lake was so convenient.The cardiac rehab program helped him recover faster to get back to harvesting sugar beets, especially since he was already in good overall physical condition.” MUCH-NEEDED SUPPORT After experiencing for themselves the importance of hav- ing state-of-the-art healthcare available locally, Kay and Jack know how crucial it is to support the new, top-of-the-line MRI. “The new MRI is very much needed,” she said. “I was im- pressed that they chose to go with the Tesla MRI! It really shows that Samaritan is in tune with the medical needs of our community. Now people won’t need to drive long dis- tances to get a high-quality MRI.” Kay also sees this as another way to enhance Samaritan’s new status as a Level III Trauma Center. “With a new MRI, new family medicine doctors, be- ing designated as a Level III Trauma Center, orthopaedics, bringing in mental health specialists—the benefits of local healthcare at Samaritan just continue growing.” Happy to help Jim Sperry, a member of the Moses Lake community for 18 years and also a Foundation board member, is very happy to help bring the new, high-tech MRI to residents in the Grant County area. “A few years ago, I needed back surgery and I wanted to have my MRI here, but due to the poor quality of the images taken by the old machine, I had to have a second MRI done in Spokane,” said Jim. “The new, state-of-the-art Tesla MRI will benefit our residents and also help attract future residents and businesses to move here when they see the top-quality healthcare that is available in Moses Lake. People planning to retire in Moses Lake will enjoy being able to have their healthcare needs met here without needing to travel to large cities.” Jim enjoys volunteering as a member of the Founda- tion. It provides him an opportunity to learn more about the hospital and what it is doing so he can support it and help to make it better for the communities it serves. “Having a high-tech MRI at the hospital shows a bet- ter continuum of care in the radiology department as a whole,” said Jim. “It’s more efficient and produces sharper images, which provides a higher level of patient care. It’s also a good example of what Samaritan is doing in our healthcare community, and this helps attract quality phy- sicians to join us. ” Jim and Karen Sperry