By: Deborah Johnson Wood
Next September, the new PET scanner and nuclear medicine addition at Saint Mary's Health Care in Grand Rapids will be up and running. And so will three new radiology technologist jobs the hospital expects to create to handle the increased number of patients.
"Typically, these jobs pay very well," says Randy Wagner, COO, "because they're technical jobs that require a lot of training and education. Basically, these people are radiology technologists who have received additional training."
Although the nuclear medicine addition won't open until September, Wagner expects to bring the new employees on the job mid-summer to allow time for training. Wagner says the new employees will most likely work at the hospital's Eaglecrest nuclear medicine facility, a facility shared by Spectrum Health, and experienced technologists from Eaglecrest will be rotated into the new nuclear medicine arm of the hospital downtown.
"I'm excited about the ability for us to provide services to the people in Grand Rapids who require this, and it's going to allow us to be more timely in diagnosing and treating patients we suspect have cancer," Wagner says. "New applications for pet scanners are being researched and developed all the time, and as they are developed, we're hopeful to be able to provide these services as well."
Source: Randy Wagner, Saint Mary's Health Care
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Deborah Johnson Wood is development news editor for Rapid Growth Media. She can be contacted at
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