Happy 2025, it is going to be a great one!

We had a busy year at Glen Rose Medical Center, we hit the ground running at the beginning of 2024, and we finished it strong.

Adding programs and technology updates takes research, discussions, and implantation. We really think about the community and what we can do as caregivers so that our patients have the best possible outcome when it comes to their healthcare.

We celebrated the one- year anniversary of our Hospitalist Program with Dr. Hutchinson and Dr. Borgfeld. The hospitalist program provides a higher level of care to patients that might have had to be transferred to the metroplex, the hospitalist works with your primary care physician to ensure you have the personal experience that makes being a patient at GRMC special.

Glen Rose Medical Center also added to our Cardiology Department, Cardiologist Dr. Daniel Jipesu, DO. Dr. Jipsesu sees patients the second Friday of each month at Glen Rose Medical Center Specialty clinic and sees patients the second Thursday of each month at our Pecan Plantation Specialty Clinic. We are happy to expand this service to our heart patients.

In March we announced our partnership with Urology Partners of North Texas, adding Dr. Zain Hyder to the staff at Glen Rose Healthcare Inc. Urology services were a much-needed service in Somervell and the surrounding area. Dr. Hyder’s addition to the clinic and hospital was an overwhelming success.

The Wound Care Program has also seen an increase in the number of patients. We work with your primary care physician and/or home health provider to improve the outcome of non- progressing wounds.

Last year we mentioned the Dr. Roger E. Marks Healthcare Foundation raising funds for a Wellness Center, this year the Dr. Roger E. Marks Healthcare Foundation gifted the funds necessary to start on the Wellness Center project. The current location of Outpatient Therapy has been under construction for several months adding all new equipment, expanding the gym area and dedicating a classroom for education, you should join us for our Open House January 15^th 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., we really want to show off.

The largest addition to the hospital was the announcement of a new in-house large bore (opening) MRI machine. The MRI machine is the latest technology available in the area. The large bore opening helps patients that are claustrophobic with the anxiety of being in a smaller opening MRI machine. Our new MRI machine is one of the fastest most accurate scanning machines available today. This new service provides clearer images in half the time in most cases. We are so proud of this new addition, the feedback we have received from patients as well as physicians has been overwhelming. Not to mention we have the best MRI tech in the area! Randall Ratliff is our MRI technician; he is truly the go to for all things MRI at Glen Rose Medical Center.

This year we have started some behind-the-scenes updating as well. We have updated the lighting in the hospital and clinic to be more energy efficient, we have already seen a return in energy savings. We are in the process of updating the entire HVAC units in the hospital and clinics, this is not only an energy saving upgrade as well as patient comfort and temperature control in the operating rooms.

We are also making a few updates to our website (you might see a few familiar faces). We are also making moves on social media platforms as we update with new services to better inform people in the tri-county area. Watch for us.

After much research, the hospital is updating to a new Electronic Health Record system. This new system will allow a much more efficient registration process, access to electronic health records from other facilities, allowing for more readily available information to our providers. This is a very lengthy process, and we hope to “go live” in August 2025.

We have a few exciting announcements coming in early 2025. We cannot wait to share them with you.

We look forward to the new year, and we wish you a very happy and healthy 2025.