Memorial Hospital of Carbon County is pleased to share the 2026-2028 Strategic Business Plan. This comprehensive plan is designed to strengthen market position, enhance services and experience for patients, and expand and support our valued workforce.
Rich Jackson has spent the past three years traveling across Wyoming, bringing an unusual but increasingly popular therapy to residents, their pets, and even ranch animals. His business, Pappy’s Pulse Services, specializes in pulsed electromagnetic field therapy, or PEMF, a non-invasive treatment that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate the body’s cells and promote healing.
The Medicine Bow Health Center will mark National Rural Health Care Day on Wednesday, Nov. 20, with a soft open house for the community. Staff members will wear National Rural Health Day T-shirts and offer light refreshments to visitors.
Going to the hospital is a scary experience for most people. The fear that medical personnel might find something wrong with your body is frightening enough, but the added worry about how to afford treatment makes it even harder.
In general, there is trepidation in going to a hospital. Stephanie Hinkle, Chief Operating Officer, Foundation Executive Director of Memorial Hospital of Carbon County (MHCC) and Lisa Harding, Patient Advocate, are two employees at MHCC who understand this.
They have different jobs, but both empathize with a person thinking about coming to the hospital for treatment.
The cost of health care in America is rising faster than most families can afford—and as a health care insurance provider and proud Wyomingite, I’m deeply concerned. Results from a March 2025 Gallup poll showed health care affordability ranked as the second most important concern for Americans—just behind the economy.
The Wyoming Center on Aging (WyCOA) at the University of Wyoming will offer a Healthy U Leadership training on the UW campus Tuesday-Friday, Sept. 16-19. Training will be 9 a.m.-4 p.m. each day.
The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) has confirmed a third case of measles in Wyoming. The most recent case is related to an unvaccinated adult from Carbon County. Measles is a highly contagious infection that can cause severe illness. The person was exposed outside of the United States.
The weather has been getting hot lately and making the flora dry. Rattlesnakes are being sighted in Rawlins and Hanna town limits and in truth, rattlers could be found in other Carbon County municipalities.
Saratoga’s next blood drive with Vitalant is on Tuesday, July 15th, from 11:30 am to 5:30 pm at the Platte Valley Community Center. The drive is sponsored by the Knights of Columbus and will include a slice of fresh, home-baked pie for all donors.
The Board of Trustees of Memorial Hospital of Carbon County is pleased to announce the appointment of Mrs. Joy Coulston as the full-time Chief Financial Officer of the hospital, effective June 24, 2025.
Kerry Ashment’s last hospital that he worked at was in San Diego. There may be some residents in Carbon County when they learn San Diego was the last place he lived, may be questioning if he is cut out for Rawlins and Carbon County.
He is.
First, he and his wife are from Cash Valley, outside of Logan, Utah. He met his wife at a University dance.
