May 14, 2012 at 5:48 pm
The first patient, Jennifer Lauzon, was scanned using Bluewater Health’s new 2.8 million dollar MRI today! Medical Director of Diagnostic Imaging Dr. Rishi Duggal says they didn’t run into any technical hiccups, it just took longer as they played around to see the new machine can do.
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The old MRI is still in service as staff are trained on the new Siemens imaging device. Bluewater Health has set a tentative date of June 20th to remove the old MRI from the hospital.