The hospital's 30-bed skilled nursing facility provides restorative care to patients who have experienced a major illness or surgical event. Comprehensive, subacute, skilled nursing care helps to provide for a smooth transition from hospital to home. Services include rehabilitation therapy, patient education, nutritional meals, an activity program and technical or specialized treatments ordered by a physician. Thallium treadmill stress testing with use of a thallium radionuclide is performed and interpreted. Exercise Echocardiography Testing is available both pre and immediately post exercise under physician direction.
Interpretation is through a cardiologist.
Dobutamine Stress Testing , for those patients unable to walk on a treadmill due to physical limitations, can be given intravenously to increase heart rate and blood pressure. Echocardiography is performed before, during and after the Dobutamine infusion to assess cardiac functions. Surgical Services SameDay Surgery Services are designed for persons whose surgical procedures do not require overnight hospitalization. These procedures are performed generally during the morning and patients may go home to recuperate fully after only a few hours in the hospital. Stillwater Medical Center performs over 2000 outpatient surgeries a year.