Integris Grove Hospital Gets New MRI Unit

Remember the big semi trailer truck that used to park at the rear of Grove Hospital? It was the MRI traveling unit and is no more, at least for Grove.

The hospital has a new state of the art, $1.5 million MRI unit, a General Electric Signa Excite HD 1.5-tesla, located in the new ambulatory care center at 13th & Shundi, in a room especially built for it.

Installed last April, the unit takes care of 6-8 patients a day but can easily handle 10 a day. It can take images of the brain, spine, feet, and basically everything in the human body except soft tissue. Dr. Michael Foster, diagnostic radiologist, does the diagnostic imaging interpretations usually within two days.