Stormont Vail Foundation Purchases New Beds for Flint Hills Campus

The Stormont Vail Foundation is excited to announce three new hospital beds will be purchased for the Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills Campus. This purchase strengthens the quality of care patients can expect to receive at Flint Hills.

The Stormont Vail Foundation is able to purchase enhancements like these, to contribute to the systems mission of improving the health of the community, thanks to the support and generosity of donors. Two departments will receive new beds; the Flint Hills Birthplace (2) and the Flint Hills Radiology Department (1) for ultrasound.

Hospital beds play a vital role in healthcare, providing a place for patients to rest and heal. The introduction of the new beds will enhance the experience for Flint Hills patients to feel more comfortable and will make it easier on team members to offer the best care.

“On behalf of the entire team here at the Flint Hills Campus, thank you to the donors and Foundation for helping us with this need,” said Tim Bergeron, Regional Director of Operations and Administrator at Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills. “We are anxious to put these resources to use for the patients that we are honored to serve in and around our community.”

In the Flint Hills Birthplace, the two beds that are being replaced have been in the unit since it was first built in 1997. Team members are excited for patients to feel more comfortable, but are also looking forward to a new feature on the bed that will allow them to more easily help position patients in the bed.

The ultrasound bed is also replacing an outdated bed. It will now feature increased patient and technologist comfort, is easier for the patient to get in and out of, and will also allow the technologist a simplified process to position patients in achieving images correctly and efficiently. Most importantly, it provides a versatility in uses and positions that the current bed has been in need of.

This investment at the Flint Hills Campus is more than $38,000 and is one of many projects happening at the facility. This is part of Stormont Vail’s commitment to Junction City and surrounding areas to ensure communities have access to quality care, close to home.