This older model CT scanner at Mineral Community Hospital will soon be replaced with a new Aquilion Lightning CT thanks to a $400,000 grant from the Helmsley Charitable Trust. (Kathleen Woodford/Mineral Independent).
April 13, 2017
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April 13, 2017 12:26 p.m.
Hospital receives $400,000 grant for diagnostic tool
Across from the front door lobby at Mineral Community Hospital, there’s a room with an ominous yellow warning sign with red letters which reads, “Caution: Do Not Open, Radiation Area”. What’s behind that closed door is a large donut shaped machine with a gurney-style bed called a “scanning couch”.