Because 2020 made gatherings difficult, the presentation of the 2020 Physician of the Year was made at the Physician Appreciation Breakfast, held at OakBend Medical Center on April 1, 2021. Dr. Gildardo Andres Ceballos was named OakBend Medical Center’s 2020 Physician of the Year. The hospital received several nominations for the Physician of the Year…

OakBend Medical Center honored the doctor’s that serve the hospital with a Physician Appreciation Breakfast. The breakfast was set in the hospital’s Joe and Doris Gurecky Atrium and included several presentations. Mayor Rebecca Haas presented a proclamation proclaiming April 1, 2021 as OAKBEND MEDICAL CENTER HEALTHCARE APPRECIATION DAY. Congressman Troy Nehls, Executive Advisor, Thomas Goodfellow…

OakBend Medical Center has announced that instead of Restaurant Week this year, they will be celebrating for the month of April with 10 separate events. The events this year include: Brews & ‘Cues – April 8, 2021 Fish Fry + Live Auction – April 9, 2021 OakBend Medical Center Crawfish Boil – April 10, 2021…

In light of the COVID 19 pandemic, OakBend Medical Center has revised its visitor policy to reflect the following: • One visitor per day allowed for non-COVID, non-isolation patients from 8AM – 9PM in all medical surgical areas. • Labor and Delivery patients are allowed one visitor per day. One adult visitor may stay overnight. • One person…

The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act of 2014 modified the Social Security Act requiring that Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) be required to submit data for public reporting. In response, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established the SNF Quality Reporting Program (QRP) and authorized the Secretary to report quality measures that…

The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization driven by employers and other purchasers of health care, today announced the fall 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades and once again awarded OakBend Medical Center an ‘A’ for achieving the highest national standards in patient safety. OakBend Medical Center is one of only 29 hospitals in the…

Over the past seven days the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in our region have exceeded 15% of the total hospital capacity, therefore making it an area of high hospitalizations as outlined in Governor Abbott’s October 8th, 2020 executive order (GA-31), thus triggering the restrictions in the order.   As a result of the recent spike in…

Residents of Fort Bend County and surrounding counties may have heard about the COVID-19 vaccine rollouts happening across the country and state. OakBend Medical Center is being overwhelmed with calls about its ability to distribute the vaccine to our community. OakBend has yet to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for distribution to its patients and the general…

OakBend Medical Center welcomed its first baby of 2021 at 3:23 PM on January 1st. Zyrah Alix Perez weighed in at 7 lbs. 1 oz. and was 19.5 inches long. Zyrah is the first child of Alondra and Jesse Perez. Both parents and their baby girl are doing well and excited to begin their new…

OakBend Medical Center will receive its first shipment of Moderna vaccine at 10:30 A.M. today and will begin administering the vaccine to its First-Tier front-line staff and CEO beginning at 1 P.M. today. They are scheduled to do 50 shots on this first day. Once the front-line workers have received their vaccine, the hospital will…