Below is a list of projects made possible — thanks to the generous support of our donors over the past year. Your support has made a tangible impact, helping us deliver exceptional care to our community. Thank you for making a difference!
Horizon® DXA Bone Density Scan
This powerful tool enhances our ability to care for patients’ bone and overall health. This state-of-the-art technology accurately measures bone density, helping healthcare providers assess fracture risk, diagnose conditions like osteoporosis, and monitor the effectiveness of treatments.
Beyond bone health, the DXA scan provides detailed body composition analysis, including muscle mass and fat distribution, offering a comprehensive picture of overall health.
Intuitive Surgical Endoscopes and Camera for DaVinci® Robot
Our advanced DaVinci ® Robot transforms surgical precision and patient outcomes, but its efficiency depends on having enough endoscopes and cameras to meet demand. These vital tools must be carefully sterilized between each use—a process that takes three hours.
By investing in additional endoscopes and cameras, we can eliminate downtime and ensure that urgent and emergency cases can proceed without delay. This enhancement also increases the number of surgeries that can be performed each day, significantly reducing wait times for patients needing critical procedures.
Transcutaneous CO2 Monitors
This technology delivers continuous, non-invasive monitoring of carbon dioxide levels in the body, allowing for early detection of respiratory complications, minimizing the need for painful blood draws, and enabling our team to make timely adjustments to ventilation settings, especially in critically ill patients or newborns.
Telemedicine Cart
This state-of-the-art tool allows Peterson to provide the most comprehensive access to care for all patients. Through technology and strategic partnerships, patients have live/real-time access to neurologists, psychiatrists and other specialties that would not otherwise be available.
Cryostat
A cryostat improves patient outcomes by enabling rapid, accurate tissue analysis through its ability to quickly freeze and precisely section tissue samples, allowing for faster diagnoses during surgery or in critical situations, which leads to timely and appropriate treatment decisions.
Parks Flo Lab SX2
This state-of-the-art vascular diagnostic system helps record, review and detect circulation issues like peripheral artery disease (PAD) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) early, allowing for timely intervention and better patient outcomes. Using non-invasive technology, it provides real-time, high-resolution Doppler waveforms, ensuring fast and accurate results without discomfort. Designed for ease of use, it enables healthcare professionals to efficiently assess blood flow, guiding effective treatment decisions while minimizing unnecessary tests or procedures
Spider2 Limb Positioner
The Spider2 Limb Positioner provides effective traction and improved visualization for shoulder arthroscopies. This device also enables the surgeon to manipulate the arm without needing an additional scrub tech. Thanks to our incredible donors, we have acquired two positioners for both inpatient and outpatient shoulder surgeries.
Staff Lockers
New staff lockers were approved for all nursing units to provide better storage of personal belongings while on shift. Peterson is honored to be named as one of the “Best Places to Work” in healthcare by Modern Healthcare magazine 4 years in a row! Thank you to our donors for helping Peterson be such a great place to work by providing our staff with these new lockers!
Nitronox Plus® 5050
Thanks to our generous donors, Nitronox Plus is set to transform childbirth. Your support fuels our mission to empower women during labor. This innovative pain management solution combines nitrous oxide and oxygen for safe and effective relief during labor and delivery, enhancing maternal well-being and ensuring positive birthing experiences.
Portable Vital Sign Machines
With donor funds, two of the three existing machines were replaced. This equipment offers a compact design, user-friendly interface and intuitive functionality, portability, all enhancing patient comfort and convenience. These machines are essential to healthcare teams at Peterson, delivering high-quality care with greater flexibility and responsiveness, improving patient outcomes.
DynaCAD Prostate Software
This Computer-Aided Detection software is utilized to enhance diagnostic images which improves both confidence and accuracy in image review of breast and prostate exams. This software works by populating 3D regions of interest that may require more attention, alerting the Radiologist to review more closely – eliminating the need to biopsy tissue unnecessarily. Earlier detection rate with the DynaCAD is the new standard of care for breast and prostate imaging.
nVoq®
This speech recognition software stands as a transformative tool in the realm of healthcare documentation, offering unparalleled benefits in efficiency, accuracy, and workflow optimization. By seamlessly converting spoken words into text in real-time, nVoq streamlines the documentation process for our Hospice team, allowing them to focus more on patient care and less on administrative tasks.
SIM NewB®
Thanks to donors like you, Peterson Health is once again “Elevating Health” — this time for our tiniest patients! Donor funds have enabled us to acquire a SIM NewB® baby, an advanced medical simulator that replicates the physiology and responses of a real newborn. This simulator is a vital tool for medical training and education, allowing healthcare professionals to practice various procedures and interventions in a realistic, risk-free environment. It can simulate breathing, crying, and medical emergencies for valuable hands-on training.
Ear Nose and Throat Navigation Equipment
The Acclarent TruDi Navigation system is a medical technology designed to enhance accuracy and precision during endoscopic sinus surgeries. It utilizes advanced imaging and navigation capabilities to assist surgeons in performing minimally invasive procedures with improved outcomes.
Moses™ Holmium Laser
The Moses Holmium Laser is a cutting-edge medical device used primarily in procedures to treat kidney stones expected in a modern urologic practice. It utilizes advanced laser technology to precisely target large and complex stones to aid in pulverizing them. Due to his precision, it also is increasingly used for laser enucleation of the prostate.
Because of its increased energy focus, this new laser allows for faster more efficient destruction of a variety of kidney stones. This increased efficiency reduces operating time, allowing physicians and staff to treat more complex cases here at Peterson rather than referring them elsewhere. Also by reducing operating time, less anesthesia is necessary thereby giving the potential for less operative risk and therefore improved patient experience. This valuable new technology is just the latest in a long line of innovative surgical tools that Peterson Health has at its disposal to better serve the patients of the Hill Country.
Peterson’s Magnet Journey
The Magnet Recognition Program provides a roadmap to advance nursing excellence, with contented staff at its core. Optimum job satisfaction results in lower nurse attrition and an improved patient experience. To attract and reward the very best in nursing talent, Magnet-recognized organizations embody a collaborative culture, where nurses are valued as integral partners in the patient’s safe passage through their healthcare experiences.
This culture is supported by steadfast investment in nursing education and development, ensuring that nurses are supported in their chosen career path. Interprofessional collaborative practice is nurtured, with a focus on mutual respect, autonomy, and shared values.
The working environment of nurses has a direct effect on the standard of care. When an organization embarks on a journey to Magnet designation, it commits to the highest quality health care. This is not only evident in decreased mortality rates and shorter hospital stays, but in the experience of every patient who walks through a Magnet organization’s doors.
Employee Scholarships
Peterson Health encourages the development of our workforce, which supports the organization’s mission of providing Exceptional, Compassionate, Patient-Centered Care. To aid in achieving this goal, financial assistance is offered to employees seeking tuition assistance via scholarship or tuition reimbursement.