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Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Forms Care Alliance with Children’s Hospital Colorado
January 6, 2016 Alliance to Provide Enhanced Pediatric Care Close to Home Cheyenne, WY—Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) officials announced today that CRMC and its affiliated medical group are forming a care alliance with Children’s Hospital Colorado (Children’s Colorado) and its University of Colorado (CU) School of Medicine faculty providers to enhance medical care provided to infants and pediatric patients [...]
On the Frontlines: CRMC ICU Nurse Describes COVID-19 Challenges
November 13, 2020 Note: The following interview took place in late October, before the Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department issued its face mask mandate for Laramie County, WY. CRMC ICU nurse Melissa Bechtholdt Melissa Bechtholdt started out as a registered nurse on a medical-surgical unit in a New Hampshire hospital about 17 years ago. She later worked as a [...]
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Courses
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Courses Which Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) courses are available at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center? Cheyenne Regional Medical Center offers two American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) course options: PALS Two-Day and PALS Heartcode. Both courses are intended for healthcare professionals who respond to emergencies in infants and children, and/or personnel in [...]
Acute Rehabilitation
Acute rehabilitation therapy programs focus on improving daily life skills (bathing, sitting, etc.) and helping patients return to normal daily activities.
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Partners with Children’s Hospital Colorado to Improve Care for Wyoming’s Tiniest Patients
October 15, 2020 Partnership aiming to elevate neonatal care close to home Cheyenne, WY- Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) and Children’s Hospital Colorado (Children’s Colorado) announced today that they have expanded their care alliance partnership to include tele-neonatology services. Focused on elevating the care of Wyoming’s tiniest patients in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at CRMC, providers in Wyoming [...]
Wound Care Clinic Takes Extensive Measures to Heal Intense Wounds
May 2019 Have you ever wondered what the Cheyenne Regional Wound Care Clinic does? Yes, they care for wounds, but it isn’t as simple as putting antiseptic on a wound, dressing it and then sending patients on their way. Many patients come to Wound Care because they have more intense wounds that won’t heal and require more specialized care, such [...]
NICU
Level II/Special Care Nursery For premature and sick newborns, we have a Level II/Special Care Nursery also known as a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Our goal is to help newborns experience an easier transition into their new world. Our Level II Nursery staff consists of registered nurses who have specialized training in caring for neonates. If a newborn [...]
Patient Story: Cheyenne Regional Medical Center’s ICU Saves Cheyenne Man’s Life
On August 25, 2017, Cheyenne resident Joseph (JoJo) Frausto had just started a new construction job. He was in a garage attic seeing what needed to be done when the unthinkable happened. The ceiling gave way, and JoJo fell more than 10 feet to the concrete floor below. JoJo’s co-worker and brother-in-law, Jeremy Martinez, got to JoJo within moments. “His [...]
“I would take all your Wyoming nurses back home with me”
October 18, 2023 Alan and Cindy Andrew and their daughter, Amy, stopped by CRMC in mid-September to thank the providers, nurses and others who had cared for Cindy earlier in the summer. In early August, Cindy Andrew and her husband, Alan Andrew, traveled to Cheyenne from their hometown of Des Moines, Iowa, to see Cindy’s sister, Diane. [...]
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Cheyenne Regional Medical Center to Host Open House for New Intensive Care Unit on November 2
October 20, 2023 One of the hallways in CRMC's new ICU, set to open for patient care in mid-November 2023. Cheyenne, WY—Cheyenne Regional Medical Center is hosting an open house for the public to tour its new Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on Nov. 2, 3 to 5 p.m. The new ICU is on the hospital’s fifth floor [...]
Hoaglund, Janelle, FPMHNP-BC
Janelle K. Hoaglund, FPMHNP-BC has been practicing since 2019 when she started a private practice in Steamboat Springs, CO. Prior to becoming a mental health care nurse practitioner, she was a nurse in a critical access hospital in the intensive care unit. Janelle became a Nurse Practitioner due to the high demand for patient care in rural areas. Having grown [...]
Common Endocrinology & Diabetes Education Terminology
A Acromegaly Acromegaly is a hormonal disorder where the pituitary gland produces excess amounts of growth hormone. Adenoma A benign tumor of an endocrine gland, such as a parathyroid adenoma. Adrenal glands The adrenal glands make hormones that help control the way the body uses food, the levels of minerals such as sodium and potassium in the blood, heart rate, blood pressure [...]
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center’s Acute Rehabilitation Unit Earns Accreditation for General Rehabilitation and Stroke Care
July 27, 2018 Cheyenne Regional Medical Center’s (CRMC) acute rehabilitation unit (ARU) recently received a three-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) for both general and stroke rehabilitative services. CRMC’s ARU has been accredited by CARF for 12 years for general rehabilitation. This is the first time that the ARU has received CARF’s specialty accreditation for [...]
Brush with Death: Laramie County Man Survives COVID-19
August 9, 2021 Terri and Garry Carpenter: "We don't take anything for granted anymore," said Terri after her husband nearly lost his life to COVID-19. On January 18, Garry Carpenter flew to Washington, D.C., for work. Garry and his wife, Terri Carpenter, live near Curt Gowdy State Park, west of Cheyenne. “We’d been careful about COVID,” Terri said. [...]
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Partners with UCHealth and LifeLine to Provide Medical Air Transport Service
March 23, 2021 Cheyenne, WY—Cheyenne Regional Medical Center is now partnering with UCHealth to provide the LifeLine medical air transport service. “As with our former air ambulance service, the LifeLine crew will be based at the Cheyenne airport to ensure a quick response when critical care flight services are needed,” said Tim Thornell, CRMC president and chief executive officer. “The [...]
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Receives Three-Year Accreditation for Inpatient Rehabilitation Services
September 16, 2021 Cheyenne, WY—Cheyenne Regional Medical Center’s Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit (ARU) and Inpatient Stroke Rehabilitation program have received a three-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities International (CARF) for both general and stroke rehabilitative services. CRMC’s ARU has been accredited by CARF for 15 years for general rehabilitation and received its first CARF specialty accreditation [...]
Cheyenne Man Survives COVID-19: ‘I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.’
September 10, 2020 Melissa and Michael Hurt: "They saved his life," Melissa said of the CRMC physicians and medical team who cared for her husband earlier this year. In late March, Michael Hurt’s wife, Melissa, rushed him to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center’s (CRMC) emergency department with a 104-degree fever. “I was so hot, my pillow was drenched with [...]
An Interview with Tim Thornell, Cheyenne Regional’s President and Chief Executive Officer
July 2019 What have your priorities been since you started on April 8? My first priority has been to meet with our physicians, providers and employees. I’ve made a lot of progress, visiting many of the physician offices in Cheyenne and departments within our health system over the past few months. Communication with everyone who works here is vital, to [...]
Denim & Diamonds Annual Campaign
Since its debut in 1990, our Denim & Diamonds gala has been one of the "must attend" community events and has raised more than $5 million for major projects across the Cheyenne Regional health system. Each year, the Foundation team works with Cheyenne Regional leaders to identify needs that can be met through this annual fundraising effort. Though we [...]
Cheyenne Regional Foundation Receives Gift to Improve Infant Care
October 13, 2015 Cheyenne, WY—A southeastern Wyoming cattle rancher has pledged $450,000 to the Cheyenne Regional Foundation to benefit the neonatal and pediatric units at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, Foundation officials recently announced. “The donor, who asked to remain anonymous, made the pledge in memory of his late wife, who was passionate about helping children,” said Victoria Fry, the Foundation’s [...]
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Receives National Award for Stroke Care 2017
July 12, 2017 Cheyenne, WY― The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association recently presented Cheyenne Regional Medical Center with the Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Silver Quality Achievement Award. Get With The Guidelines-Stroke is a national program that encourages participating hospitals to follow the most up-to-date, evidence-based stroke guidelines, with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability [...]
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Recognized for Preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections
May 6, 2015 Cheyenne, WY—Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) has been recognized by Mountain-Pacific Quality Health and the Wyoming Infection Prevention Advisory Group for achieving excellence in infection prevention. The recognition was given during Mountain-Pacific’s Fifth Annual Infection Prevention Conference in Casper last month. CRMC received an award for having no catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) in its Intensive Care [...]
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center’s Acute Rehabilitation Unit Earns Three-Year Accreditation
June 10, 2015 Cheyenne, WY—Cheyenne Regional Medical Center’s (CRMC) acute rehabilitation unit (ARU) recently earned a three-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). CRMC’s ARU has been accredited by CARF for nine years and is the only CARF-accredited ARU in Wyoming. CARF International is an independent, nonprofit accrediting body of health and human services that accredits [...]
Heart Treatment Helps Renew Cheyenne Man’s Strength and Outlook
June 7, 2022 Wyllie Love Cheyenne residents Ann and Wyllie Love have been together for 43 years. They have had a full and blessed life. They founded a business in Saratoga, where they lived for most of their married life until they retired and moved to Cheyenne in 2009, to be closer to family and to have easier [...]
‘Never, Never, Never Give Up’
May 4, 2022 Cheyenne resident Robert Pratt during his hospital stay at CRMC after a near fatal ATV accident. A freak accident nearly killed 52-year-old Robert Pratt last September. “I was going hunting and was getting ready to load my ATV when my dog took off running,” the Cheyenne resident said. “I went after her.” Robert has years [...]
CRMC to Host Open House for New Mother/Baby, Neonatal Intensive Care Units on Oct. 14
October 10, 2022 Cheyenne, WY—Cheyenne Regional Medical Center is hosting an open house on October 14, 3-5 p.m., for community members to tour the hospital’s new Mother/Baby and Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Hospital volunteers will be available in CRMC’s main lobby to direct guests to the MBU and NICU, located on the fourth floor. The renovated area features several advancements [...]
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Receives National Award for Stroke Care 2018
June 8, 2018 Cheyenne, WY― The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association® recently presented Cheyenne Regional Medical Center with the Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. Get With The Guidelines-Stroke is a national program that encourages participating hospitals to follow the most up-to-date, evidence-based stroke guidelines, with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for [...]
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Receives National Gold Plus Quality Award for Stroke Treatment
July 22, 2022 Cheyenne, WY—Cheyenne Regional Medical Center has received the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association’s (AHA/ASA) Gold Plus Get With the Guidelines®-Stroke quality achievement award for the fifth year in a row. Get With The Guidelines-Stroke is a national program that helps participating hospitals align patient care with the latest research and evidence-based stroke guidelines, with the [...]
‘Voice of the Cowboys’ Shares Recent Health Scare and Road to Recovery
November 7, 2022 Stephanie and Reece Monaco are grateful for Reece's recovery from a stroke he suffered last March. Reece Monaco is known throughout Wyoming as “the Voice of the Cowgirls and Cowboys” for his radio coverage of University of Wyoming athletics. He was the play-by-play announcer for Cowgirl Basketball for 19 seasons before being asked to do [...]
Visiting Hours
Visiting Hours Cheyenne Regional reserves the right to impose visitor restrictions on infectious patients. If a patient is admitted with any contagious disease, additional limitations or PPE requirement for visitation may be put in place to best safeguard patients, visitors, and staff. We encourage visitors to stay home if they have a fever, cough or other respiratory symptoms. Downtown [...]
Cheyenne Regional ICU Celebrates the Gift of State-of-the-Art Devices – Electrolarynx devices purchased for the ICU at Cheyenne Regional by its Foundation GalleryCheyenne Regional ICU Celebrates the Gift of State-of-the-Art Devices – Electrolarynx devices purchased for the ICU at Cheyenne Regional by its Foundation
Cheyenne Regional ICU Celebrates the Gift of State-of-the-Art Devices – Electrolarynx devices purchased for the ICU at Cheyenne Regional by its Foundation
July 23, 2014 Cheyenne, WY--With a $1,400 grant from its Foundation, the Cheyenne Regional Intensive Care Unit has recently purchased three new electrolarynx devices. These innovative devices are typically used in people who have had surgery of the larynx, but have recently proven useful in the ICU for patients who are unable to communicate effectively without assistance. Cheyenne Regional is [...]
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Experiences Patient Surge
November 8, 2021 Editor’s Note: Below is a message from Cheyenne Regional President and CEO Tim Thornell about a patient surge that took place at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center late last week and about the hospital’s current situation. Cheyenne, WY—Like many hospitals in our region, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is experiencing an unprecedented surge of patients. The surge is [...]
New Technology Used in Spinal Surgery Performed at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center
December 7, 2018 Dr. Steven Beer is the first neurosurgeon to use the OsseoScrew in a U.S. surgery Cheyenne, WY—Cheyenne neurosurgeon Dr. Steven Beer is the first surgeon in the United States to use a recently approved device while performing a spinal surgery at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center on November 29. “The OsseoScrew spinal fixation system was designed to improve [...]
Karla Walden, MS, RDN, LD
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Karla Walden, has practiced as a dietitian in Cheyenne since 2002 and has been a Clinical Dietitian at Cheyenne Regional since August of 2006. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in food and nutrition/dietetics from Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. She then attended Colorado State University to complete her dietetic internship while earning her [...]
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Opens Human Milk Donation and Outreach Center
April 17, 2017 Cheyenne Regional Medical Center will celebrate the official launch of its first-ever Human Milk Donation and Outreach Center on April 20 from 10:30 to 11 a.m. in the hospital’s main lobby, 214 East 23rd St. The kickoff will include a booth with information about the center and how local mothers can either become donors or can access [...]
Mickelson, Ashlee, LCSW
Ashlee Mickelson is a Wyoming native who graduated from the University of Wyoming with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Social Work. Prior to joining the team at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, Ashlee worked with adolescents and families at a residential care unit. She has experience in the areas of addiction, depression, trauma, abuse, domestic abuse [...]
Special Services
Special Services Interpretation services Interpretation services are available through a tele-interpreter program. Please ask your nurse or a member of the Patient Relations Team (extension 7768) for more information. Power of Attorney The Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) Patient Relations Team (extension 7768) can answer your questions about creating a power of attorney document. A power of attorney for [...]
