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Monday July 29 2019
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CUSTER COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER REPORTS
GROWING PARTNERSHIP – AND SERVICES

The Custer County Medical Center is
expanding its range of care as a working
relationship with Salida’s Heart of the
Rockies Medical Center continues to evolve.
In the meantime, Custer County Public
Health has moved out of the clinic building
at 704 Edwards Avenue, making room for
more visiting specialists at the CCMC clinic.
Ongoing negotiations with Heart of the
Rockies have already yielded several new
medical relationships and services. Dr. Erika
Gelgand, an internal medicine specialist in
Salida and CCMC’s new medical director,
in August, will begin seeing patients in
Westcliffe. Also in August, and through
Heart of the Rockies, Dr. Ken Wool, a
cardiologist who owns a ranch in the Wet
Mountain Valley, will begin seeing patients
here at the medical center. The CCMC team
expects more specialists to begin regular
visits to Westcliffe, joining Drs. Gelgand
and Wool, as well as orthopedic and eye
specialists who have made monthly visits to
Westcliffe for several years.
​Already, local patients can receive a long list
of affordable, direct-access laboratory tests,
drawn in Westcliffe and tested at or through
the Salida hospital – as well as traditionally
billed lab services performed by CCMC
staff.
“Many of our patients have already
experienced advantages and savings from
our evolving relationship with the Salida
hospital,” says Lisa Drew, executive director
of the West Custer County Hospital District.
She adds that in September, the medical
center will migrate patients’ electronic
health records to Aprima, a new EHR
solution that will integrate with Heart of the
Rockies and its growing list of medical
specialists.
“We continue to look for a full-time
physician – a proven professional who will
live in our community and care for our
patients,” Drew explains. “As we identify
candidates for this job and move closer to a
written agreement with Heart of the
Rockies, we plan town hall meetings to
make sure all in our community understand
all that’s underway to improve local
healthcare and health.”
Press Release by Lisa Drew
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