Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center public relations and marketing director Allison Gergley gave the Salida Hospital Board a presentation on the HRRMC website, including user statistics for the site.
Using the website analytics, Gergley told the board during 2020, which she categorized as a unique year due to COVID-19, there were 152,000 individual visitors to the site with a total of 426,000 page views.
Page views are based on the number of pages visited by a user.
Comparing August 2020 to August 2019, for example, the number of individual site visits was up 37,000 and the number of pages viewed was up 30,000 in 2020.
Gergley said there were three significant ramp ups in the number of visitors to the HRRMC website in 2020, including near the beginning of the pandemic in March, during Julyâs second wave and toward the end of the year into the new years as vaccinations were rolled out.
John Albert Daugherty, 46, a nurse practitioner at the Buena Vista Health Clinic, died Thursday morning, March 4, on his way to work from Salida in a head-on collision with a Colorado Department of Transportation snowplow.
âWe are completely saddened and mourning our co-worker and friend John Daugherty,â said Thomas White, the medical director at the Buena Vista Health Clinic. âJohn was a compassionate healer who cared deeply for his patients and colleagues.â
Daugherty joined the staff at Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center, of which the BV clinic is a part, in November 2014 and âhad an ease in connecting with diverse people and patients on all levels,â said HRRMC spokeswoman Allison Gergley
Chaffee County Public Health received its first batch of 100 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday. Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center received 300 doses.The Moderna vaccine was
Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center plans to begin vaccinating frontline and health care workers immediately upon the anticipated receipt of the first round of a limited allocation of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, Allison Gergley, marketing and public relations manager for the hospital stated in a press release.
Timing is dependent on pending vaccine delivery confirmation from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, she said.
The state public health departmentâs vaccine distribution plan is separated into three main phases, with phase 1 divided into phase 1A and phase 1B.
Phase 1A includes highest-risk health care workers, the tier of Coloradans to receive the vaccine first.