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• Southwest Washington Medical Center Selects GuardianEdge to Provide Hard Disk Encryption

  - 2008-05-19

  GuardianEdge, the leading provider of endpoint data protection for the enterprise, today announced that Southwest Washington Medical Center has selected the GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption solution to protect sensitive information on all of the health care provider's laptops. The deployment further validates Southwest Washington Medical Center's commitment to...

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• Southwest Washington Medical Center Improves Deaf Patient Experience With Video Interpreting by Language Line Services

  - 2008-01-22

  MONTEREY, Calif. -- Southwest Washington Medical Center has implemented a language access program designed to improve the patient experience for those using American Sign Language ASL. Following the success of a pilot video interpreting program at the hospital's Memorial Urgent Care Center, Southwest Washington has permanently implemented the Language Line([R])...

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• Clark College's corporate education unit has been awarded a $31,000 Job Skills Program grant to provide training for Southwest Washington Medical Center

  - 2008-01-10

  CLARK COLLEGE'S CORPORATE EDUCATION (Wash.) unit has been awarded a $31,000 Job Skills Program JSP grant to provide training for Southwest Washington Medical Center. The grant will provide training for 25 SWMC directors, managers and supervisors on the topics of lean health care, training the trainer and leading change.

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• Southwest Washington Medical Center, E.W. and Mary Firstenburg Tower, Vancouver; Award of Excellence/built.(Special Feature: 22nd Annual Design Awards)

  - 2007-09-24

  In August 2005, a new hospital opened in Vancouver, Wash., and for the first time in its 150-year history, Southwest Washington Medical Center had competition. It looked to Seattle-based architects NBBJ for help facing up to the challenge. Richard Dallam, an NBBJ partner and...

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• Robert Kunselman retired April 1 as director of materials management at Southwest Washington Medical Center, Vancouver, Wash., 360 beds.(People on the move)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-04-01

  Robert Kunselman retired April 1 as director of materials management at Southwest Washington Medical Center, Vancouver, Wash., 360 beds. His career in materials management spanned 30 years, all in Vancouver. In 1974, while still in college, he was a part-time inventory control clerk at Vancouver Hospital,...

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• Vancouver, Wash., Hospital Eyes City Parcel for New Hospice.

  - 2003-03-27

  By Jeffrey Mize, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 27--Southwest Washington Medical Center wants to build a 20-bed hospice east of Hudson's Bay High School, providing only the third free-standing care center for dying people in Washington. ...

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• The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash., Marketplace Column.

  - 2002-11-24

  By Julia Anderson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 24--Expansion plans at Southwest Washington Medical Center are very much alive despite Legacy Health System's plans for a new hospital in Salmon Creek. Southwest expects to get...

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• Medical Center Looks at Vancouver, Wash., Hospice Site.

  - 2002-08-22

  By Ken Olsen, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 22--Southwest Washington Medical Center appears to be eyeing Hazel Dell as the home for its proposed new hospice facility. The hospital has purchased an option on 2.5 acres of...

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