Story courtesy of Houston Business Journal. A nonprofit health system in Fort Bend County needs more nurses to staff its intensive care units and emergency departments, its CEO said. OakBend Medical Center, a 274-bed health system based in Richmond, has engaged staffing agencies to help ramp up the nursing staff, CEO Joe Freudenberger told the…

Story courtesy of Bill Spencer with KRPC Channel 2 Click2Houston. HOUSTON – Dr. Gildardo Ceballos, a 20-year, veteran, internal medicine doc suits up in his personal protective equipment to begin yet another long, agonizing day in the war against COVID-19. “I feel frustrated because I feel powerless because the patients, they die, despite all the…

The face of nursing has changed since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic nursing could be a tough job. Since COVID-19, the job of nursing has a new face, especially when working on a designated COVID unit. A week before COVID became a pandemic, Brandy Snyder accepted the position of 4th Floor Medical Surgical Manager….

Things have changed in the ICU department. But many of the changes have affected the ICU nurses. Anthony Lundquist, the Charge Nurse in the Jackson Street Intensive Care Unit (ICU), has been a part of these changes. From being screened when arriving at the hospital to changing into the PPE equipment every time they go…

OakBend Medical Center’s Information Technology (IT) Department has been working almost around the clock to keep the hospital up-to-date on everything it needs to continue functioning during the pandemic. We sat down with Tim McCarty, Vice President of Support Services and head of the IT Department to find out what OakBend was doing to help…

If you’ve been keeping up with federal guidance on who’s at higher risk for complications from COVID-19, you know that people with diabetes are among the affected groups. People older than 60, along with those who have respiratory problems, high blood pressure, and heart disease are, too, notes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

OakBend Medical Group will be opening its second COVID-19 testing site on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. The new site will be in Wharton, Texas at the OakBend Medical Center -Wharton Hospital Campus. The site will be set up in the front parking area of the hospital at 10141 US Hwy 59 Rd., Wharton, Texas 77488…

As COVID- 19 causes havoc on the world, more and more people are dying. Those who are fortunate to survive still deal with complications thereafter. Certainly, mortality and morbidity have both been on the rise. Many people link the COVID- 19 virus to the direct cause of death. However, we have failed to recognize that…

OakBend Medical Center has revised its visitation hours during the COVID-19 Pandemic and these changes will remain in effect until further notice: Effective March 27, 2020 there will be no visitors allowed to enter our facilities, with the follow exceptions: ER patients are allowed one visitor; Labor and Delivery patients are allowed one significant other;…