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Beaufort Memorial Hospital 2011 Most Wired Hospital

Beaufort Memorial Hospital has been named to the nation’s Top 100 Most Wired Hospitals in the U.S., according to the results of the 2011 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study released today in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine.

While this is Beaufort Memorial’s 9th consecutive year to make the Top 100 Most Wired list for Small & Rural Hospitals, this is the second time that the hospital has been named in the Top 100 in the Nation, which includes large hospitals and academic medical centers.

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BMH invests in bedside medication
verification system to ensure patient safety

The familiar bar code scanning system used at your local grocery store has become the latest technology being adopted by hospitals to improve patient safety. At Beaufort Memorial Hospital—one of only a handful of South Carolina health care providers to have implemented the system—scanning devices are now being used at the bedside to help ensure patients receive the proper medication. “We dispense a million doses of drugs a year,” said Susan Converse, a staff pharmacist at the 197-bed hospital.

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Robotic Surgery Center

da Vinci robotic arm Moving beyond “space-age” technology, Beaufort Memorial offers patients the least invasive surgical treatments. The daVinci Surgical system at BMH provides surgeons with an alternative to both traditional open surgery and conventional laparoscopy.

By using robotic-assisted technology, the surgeon can perform surgery through small, dime-sized incisions with unmatched precision.

For patients, the benefits can include:

Significantly less pain
Less blood loss
Less scarring
Shorter recovery time
Faster return to normal activities
In many cases, better clinical outcomes

Learn more about the daVinci Surgical system at BMH...