Welcome to Gunnison Valley Health, the sole-community owned, integrated and comprehensive health system for Gunnison Valley and its surrounding areas. The Gunnison Valley Health family is here to provide quality healthcare to anyone requiring services, be it the Family Birthing Center that brings new lives into our community, the Cancer Treatment Center where patients may receive comfortable oncology treatments right here in Gunnison, or even Hospice & Palliative Care Services as one nears the end of their life - Gunnison Valley Health is here to meet your needs during any stage of your life!
 

 
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2012 GVH FOUNDATION ANNUAL APPEAL - iSTAN MEDICAL & EMERGENCY TRAINING PROGRAM
 
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SPORT CONCUSSION ASSESSMENT TOOL (SCAT)

As a recreationally focused community, Gunnison Valley Health knows that people in Gunnison County tend to PLAY HARD - but we also want everyone to PLAY SAFE!

There has been a great deal of focus on concussion awareness & prevention in recent years. To help assist with the appropriate diagnosis of concussions, Gunnison Valley Health is distributing Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT) cards to all coaches, teachers and childcare providers (and any other interested individuals) throughout the community. These cards, which are the same size as a credit card, simplify the original assessment down to three primary questions so that the assessment is more likely to take place at the appropriate time - and keep concussion victims out of harm's way!
 
If you or someone you know is interested in obtaining a SCAT card, please contact Courtney Tanning with Community Relations at 970-642-8417 or email ctanning@gvh-colorado.org
 

COMBATTING CONCUSSIONS 'HEAD'-ON
By Will Shoemaker
December 6, 2012
Courtesy of The Gunnison Country Times

From the professional football field to high school hockey rinks, awareness of the lifealtering consequences of sports-related concussions has come front and center.

Locally, that awareness is being spurred further by the creation of Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT) cards that Gunnison Valley Health (GVH) will be distributing in coming months to coaches, teachers and childcare providers throughout the valley.

The brainchild of GVH Cheif Medical Officer Dr. John Tarr, the SCAT cards have been years in the making.

Four years ago, Dustin McGuinness, then a freshman at Gunnison High School, received a debilitating injury during a Blades midget hockey game that forever changed the perspective of local coaches and parents alike regarding sports-related head injuries.

In response, Tarr and current Gunnison Valley Hockey Association Director Trevor Smith — also director of Information Systems at GVH — teamed up to devise a tool to minimize the risk of such an injury again.

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GVH COULD TEACH LARGE HOSPITALS ABOUT CARE, COMPASSION
Letter to the Editor
November 29, 2012
Courtesy of The Gunnison Country Times

Editor:

Leaving the Gunnison Valley was heart wrenching for me. Not only did I miss the amazing beauty the valley has to offer, but I missed the beauty of the people living there. I came to the valley as a young college student and left as a mom, nurse, wife and loyal friend.

Gunnison Valley Hospital was my second home for the last 13 years. As a brand new nurse, GVH taught me not only the basics of nursing care, but it gave me much more.
I knew it was a special place when I worked there. Now I work in a major teaching city hospital that offers level one trauma, organ transplants, and is one of the most renowned cardiac surgical hospitals in the United States. It employees 7,000 people and has 800 patient beds — just a slight change from GVH’s 24 bed hospital!

Yet even with all the sophisticated medicine and technology that the hospital offers its patients, it misses what GVH has to offer. It is missing the dedication of our physicians who commit a large part of their lives to care for the people of the Gunnison Valley.

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GUNNISON VALLEY HOSPITAL RECOGNIZED AS TOP 100 CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITAL IN AMERICA

Gunnison Valley Health recently received notification from The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) that the local hospital qualifies as one of the country’s Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals. A total of 1,350 rural hospitals throughout the United States are designated as critical access facilities; there are currently 29 Critical Access Hospitals in the state of Colorado, but only two, Gunnison Valley Hospital and Aspen Valley Hospital, have been recognized as being in the nation’s Top 100.

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