The Sweeny Hospital District is the major health care provider in southwestern Brazoria County, with Sweeny Community Hospital (SCH) leading the way in providing convenient, cost-effective care.

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Sweeny Community Hospital's Surgery Department is Open !!!

Not that the Surgery Department was ever closed, but no surgeries have been scheduled in the department since September 2006. This was due to no surgeons practicing in Sweeny. Bill Barnes, the hospital administrator  has been successful in recruiting doctors to start using the surgery department again.  Surgeons new to the hospital are ready to perform surgery. Dr. Young is a General Surgeon and also practices in Bay City. Dr. Ely is a Gynecological Surgeon in Bay City and will be performing procedures at Sweeny Hospital. Dr Eggleston is an Orthopedic Surgeon and  performs surgeries in Angleton and Lake Jackson.  New equipment has been obtained to ensure current technology is being utilized. The doctors have specific days scheduled to see patients at Sweeny Community Hospital's Specialty Clinic. Surgeries are scheduled through the Specialty Clinic or the Doctor's primary office. The surgery department will mainly be handling outpatient procedures, but inpatient procedures are available. With fuel prices increasing you can have your surgical procedures and follow up care performed locally.

STAT

In a hospital environment, STAT makes people think of an emergency, to get somewhere fast. This is not the case with Sweeny Hospital's new STAT team. STAT stands for "Start a Terrific Attitude Today".  The administrator, Mr. Barnes, wanted a volunteer employee team to improve employee morale and community outreach. A team of about 10 employees are responsible for participation at special events like Pride Day and recognize events, such as Nurse's Week. They do different events for raising funds that will be used for employee events, maybe a Christmas Party or a Summer Bar-B-Q, who knows. There have been different small contest and events around the hospital that seem to break up the same repetitive day. So if the activities make the employee's jobs more enjoyable, that would be ok also. The team welcomes any employee wanting to join.  For STAT questions contact Crystal Johnson at cjohnson@sweenyhospital.org or any STAT member who can be recognized by their STAT badge. A web page on this site is being developed for upcoming STAT events and pictures of past events so check back soon. Thanks STAT team!!!!!

Positive findings is back on the press !

After 10 missed issues Sweeny Hospital's newsletter Positive Findings is being published again. Ironically the last 10 months have had a great deal of positive news happening. The delay was due to the employee that was publishing the Positive Findings leaving the hospital to pursue a new job opportunity. Employees have volunteered to take over the publishing duties. They quickly discovered their current responsibilities were increasing also, not allowing them the needed time. It is regretted that a great deal of positive news at the hospital has happened and not been published. A special web page is being created to announce the employees that are in different positions over the last several months. The new Positive Findings publisher is Michelle Gonzalez, she can be emailed at Michelleg@sweenyhospital.org to be given information for publishing.  Michelle plans on having the Positive Findings published monthly. As always there is a link across the top of the home page for accessing the current and past editions of the Positive Findings.

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