The Dryden Regional Health Center has hit another milestone this week in performing their first anterior hip replacement surgery.
CEO of DRHC, Doreen Armstrong-Ross explains that this is a leading surgery that will benefit not only community members, but the entire northwest region.
“Care close to home is something that the Dryden Regional Health Center focuses on. Certainty we can’t have everything. But we’re one of the very few places in Canada and certainty one of the very few small hospitals that can offer this level of procedure. Its really important to get these into the community and people to get care close to home.”
The Dryden Regional Health Center began the process to get the surgery to Dryden before COVID-19 hit.
Ross says she is very proud of DRHC staff for stepping up, in an already busy time to get trained and be able to offer this surgery.
“To be able to offer this in August, when we’re still in the pandemic and really just in the beginning stages of re-opening is a really remarkable thing. It really speaks to the commitment DRHC staff has to our community. We’re working really hard to catch up for everything and we’re happy that these patients that have been waiting for hip replacements will be able to get it done with a real leading edge hip replacement procedure.”
With this hip replacement surgery patients go home the same day and there’s a shorter recovery time.
By end of week, the DRHC will have completed 8 anterior hip replacement procedures.
