Services > Inpatient
Our highly skilled staff provide professional, individualized care to meet each patient's special healthcare needs. Registered nurses are on duty at all times to supervise each patient's care. Located on the second floor, we have 21 private patient rooms with two that are negative pressure isolation rooms. We offer our patients and their visitors a wide range of services and optional conveniences.
Our Inpatient services include:
Cardiac Monitored Care
Patients with cardiac problems are placed in this unit equipped with specialized monitors and equipment. Highly skilled nursing care and medical supervision are provided and patients are continuously monitored. ECG transmission for consultations with cardiologists is available if needed.
Clinical Laboratory
Prompt, accurate diagnosis of each patient's medical condition is essential to effective, quality health care. Our fully automated clinical laboratory plays a key role in this process by performing a wide range of procedures, which help physicians diagnose and treat diseases. Specially trained and certified laboratory technologists and technicians maintain high quality control standards to assure complete accuracy and reliability of tests performed. Staff analyze biological specimens/tissues in blood bank, chemistry, hematology, histology, immunology, microbiology, toxicology, and urinalysis.
Detoxification
Black River Memorial Hospital is certified by the state of Wisconsin to provide emergency care and detoxification services to people with alcohol and other drug abuse problems.
Diagnostic Imaging
Our professional staff uses various advanced technologies to provide visual diagnostic tools to aid your physician.
Food Service
Our Food Service provides healthy and nutritious meals for inpatients, visitors, and the general public. Nutritional education and dietetic consulting services are also available.
Medical/Surgical
The Medical-Surgical unit provides a full range of patient care services for infants up to geriatrics which include services such as:
- IV medication therapy
- Blood product administration
- Remicaide & Iron infusion therapy
- Cardiac monitored care
- Swing Bed & Rehabilitation services
- Inpatient surgical monitoring
- Alcohol detoxification services
- Advanced medication safety delivery system
- State-of-the-art lift system in all patient rooms
- Treatment for any diseases or diagnoses your primary care provider or consulting healthcare provider is able to assess and treat
Our goal is to provide you with exceptional care. We are able to do this by using a multi-disciplinary approach when providing your care. We hold regular meetings to coordinate your care with the appropriate professionals and we focus on what you need to be able to return to your previous level of function. When you stay with us you can expect care which is courteous, respectful and compassionate.
OB—Family Beginnings
Our family-centered maternity care gives parents many choices for their birth experience.
We offer one-on-one Birth Plan by Design and Childbirth Education Classes to prepare for the birth and, while in the hospital, mothers are given individual instructions on how to care for their newborn baby. Our nursery is staffed 24 hours a day by trained OB nurses and is equipped to meet the special needs of the newborn.
At the time of discharge, mothers and fathers are given a complimentary "Celebration of Life Basket" filled with two entrees, homemade bread and cookies, fruit, juices and a variety of items from area businesses and organizations congratulating the parents.
Patient and Family Services
An important part of each patient's recovery is assuring a smooth transition from hospitalization to ongoing care following discharge. Medical social workers work closely with patients, family members, and medical staff to assess patient needs and work with patients and their families to arrange appropriate medical equipment or homecare services.
Patient Education
To help patients and their family members adjust to illness and treatment, the hospital offers many educational programs. Direct patient caregivers work with patients to determine what effect the illness and treatment may have on them. Instructions may be provided on managing medications, nutritional counseling, or other procedures to follow at home.
Pharmacy
All medications for inpatients are safely and efficiently dispensed by the hospital pharmacist. A drug profile is maintained on each patient to assist physicians and nurses with effective drug therapy. Services are provided 24 hours a day.
Respiratory Care
We provide treatments to preserve or improve pulmonary function. Services are available on an inpatient, outpatient, and emergency basis.
Surgical
Our surgical services include a fully equipped surgery suite for inpatient operations and procedures as well as many options for same-day (outpatient) surgical procedures.
Swing Bed Program
Transitional care is provided to patients who have recovered from the acute phase of an illness, but still need skilled care for a period of time before returning home or transferring to a nursing home or other facility.