Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center

05/30/2026

05/20/2026

JMHCC is proud to announce Matt Hager and Sen. Don Schaible have been selected as North Dakota rural health advocates. The Dakota Conference on Rural Health will feature the Outstanding Rural Health Awards to recognize North Dakota rural health advocates for their accomplishments. The awards banquet is slated for June 3 in Grand Forks. We're glad these two are in our corner!

05/19/2026

Thank you to the entire dedicated team at JMHCC!

05/18/2026

During National EMS Week, we thank those who answer the call every day!

05/13/2026

We Care Like Family. That's Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center.

05/13/2026

As we continue to celebrate National Hospital Week, we share news about a new decontamination system at JMHCC. Due to the generosity of several donors, Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center (JMHCC) now has the capacity to expertly treat patients who have been exposed to hazardous materials.
JMHCC received more than $13,000 in grant assistance to purchase a decontamination system, including $3,086 from the Elgin Lions Club and $5,000 from the N.D. Community Foundation. Other grant funds came from Mor-Gran-Sou Electric Cooperative, which also provided matching funds from Basin Electric Power Cooperative and CoBank for a total of $5,250.
A decontamination tent can be quickly put into place to provide an enclosure where staff in personal protective equipment (PPE) can decontaminate a patient in an enclosed and sheltered shower system before bringing the patient inside the facility for further treatment. Hospital employees have also recently undergone frontline hazardous material and decontamination training, using specialized PPE, which JMHCC purchased from its general operating funds.
This equipment will allow JMHCC to handle a hazardous material decontamination, such as an anhydrous ammonia leak within the agricultural community or a spill of other materials. Situated in an agricultural community and at the intersection of two highways, JMHCC saw the need to be prepared for any type of hazardous material contamination, said Director of Nursing Rusette (Rose) Tesani, who is a lead for the hospital’s emergency response team. She led recent training of 46 staff members at JMHCC, along with Kehr.
As the hospital now prepares to accept hazardous material scenarios, Tesani, and Emergency Medical Technician Joey VanderVliet and Paramedic Clifford Black are the hospital emergency response team leads.

05/12/2026

During National Hospital Week, meet JMHCC's new radiology director, Ryan Hager, who is at the helm of JMHCC’s imaging department, which handles everything from routine X-rays to complex CT scans.
“I knew I was going to a place that needed me and where I could be useful and still staying within that critical access, community healthcare kind of situation. … I feel valued here,” he says. And JMHCC values having Ryan here, too!