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Special Care Services

Dialysis

HRMC's renal dialysis is available with convenient hours and caring staff that treat you like family. Our staff has the training and experience to provide individualized monitoring and treatment to ensure a better quality of life.

Dialysis is life sustaining with treatments generally occurring three times a week for about 3-4 hours per session. HRMC’s dialysis unit is open Monday-Saturday. Each station is equipped with comfortable chairs and personal televisions to help patients pass the time more quickly.

HRMC also welcomes visiting dialysis patients. Visitors should have their home dialysis unit contact HRMC, preferably one month prior to visit.

In addition, HRMC’s dietitian is available to provide you and your primary caregiver information and tips to help optimize quality of life with medications, exercise, diet and fluid intake. Social services can also provide information on financial and emotional programs and will connect you to other community resources.

For more information, please contact us or call (605) 353-6334.

Nutrition Services

Since a healthy diet is such an integral part of the healing process and keeping you healthy, HRMC’s registered dietitian and nutrition staff monitor your diet and are available to you during your hospital stay. Outpatient dietitian education is also available if you require further nutritional planning. Talk to your provider for a referral or call 605-353-6585.

Sara Braskamp, HRMC's on-staff dietitian, speaks on how to improve your diet and promote overall personal health. Read the video transcription.

Outpatient Treatment

Patients receiving chemotherapy, IV therapy or other outpatient treatments have the option of getting their treatments close to home. HRMC provides convenient access and comfortable surroundings for your outpatient therapy.

HRMC's outpatient treatment center offers a healing environment with greater comfort for patients who sometimes spend several hours receiving therapy. Our skilled, caring nurses monitor you for comfort and manage possible side effects that may develop while implementing your treatment. The staff will take time to help you understand your medications and answer questions as they arise. Examples of treatments or therapies are:

Chemotherapy
IV hydration
IV medication
IV antibiotics
Central line & port management
Injections to stimulate the bone marrow to increase production of blood cells
Other injections

For more information, please contact us or call 605-353-6503.

Pain Management Services

Are you suffering with chronic or acute back or lower back pain? HRMC's certified registered nurse anesthetists perform interventional pain management using minimally invasive techniques. This therapy, which is administered in an outpatient appointment in HRMC's surgical department, helps the healing process and relieves pain when other non-surgical interventions have failed. Often patients regain mobility and return to work or home responsibilities.

Conditions treated through HRMC's pain management services include:

Lower Back Pain: Steroid injections reduce inflammation that causes lower back pain, including herniated discs, degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis, a narrowing of open spaces within the spine that puts pressure on the spinal cord and nerves.

Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction: Sacroiliac injections reduce inflammation where the lower spine and pelvis connect, reducing pain in the buttocks, lower back or legs. The injections may also be used for other therapeutic and diagnostic purposes.

Pain management services are provided in partnership with your health care provider or orthopedist. Steroid injections may be paired with physical therapy and possibly chiropractic care to help patients gain back and core strength for longer term pain relief. HRMC's CRNA Jason Barnhard, who is pursuing a fellowship in pain management, shares more information about pain management services in the Well One Connection On-Air podcast.

Swing Bed

Huron Regional Medical Center’s (HRMC) swing bed care provides short-term, skilled nursing and rehabilitative services when you no longer require inpatient acute or specialized care. It bridges the gap between inpatient care at the hospital and returning home.

Patients with a variety of health issues can benefit from the services.While receiving swing bed care, the focus will be on self-care, increasing independence and learning or relearning the skills needed in everyday life. For others, however, the focus of swing bed care might be for limiting activity, monitoring of a medical condition and supervising medications.

Medicare Part A and private insurance may pay for skilled care in the swing bed. To be eligible for swing bed care, you are required to have three consecutive calendar days of acute hospital care within the last 30 days prior to being admitted to swing bed care. Transfers are also accepted from other acute care facilities.

For more information on swing bed care at HRMC, contact us online or call 605-353-6306.