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Show Hospital will be first to use new 763- prefix Beginning Tuesday, Aug. 23, American Fork Hospital's phone number will change. In addition, all hospital departments will have direct dial phone numbers eliminating elimi-nating the need to have most calls channeled through the hospital phone operator. A bright blue insert listing all the new hospital phone numbers will be enclosed in next week's newspaper and Shopper's Guide. This card has been designed for tucking in the household phone book or taping up near the phone so that the hospital numbers are readily available in each home until the new phonebooks come out late in the Fall. "We are pleased to be able to offer community residents the convenience of direct dialing to American Fork Hospital," says AFH Administrator Craig Smed-ley. Smed-ley. "Calling the hospital will now be easier than ever before." In the past, direct-dial access to -hospital departments has been impossible due to a shortage of available American Fork phone numbers. This problem is now being solved with U.S. West's addition addi-tion of a new phone number prefix for the American Fork area763. (See related story.) American Fork Hospital phone numbers are the first to use this new prefix. According to Smedley, heavy phone-call loads have put extreme pressure on hospital phone operators. opera-tors. Although each shift's PBX operator does an excellent job, one person can only funnel through a limited number of calls at one time. During peak phone hours, some non-emergency AFH callers have been inconvenienced with busy signals, long series of rings, or being put on hold. With the hospital direct-dial numbers, these inconveniences incon-veniences will be brought to a minimum. The new direct-dial phone numbers by department are: Emergency 763-3555 Patient Information .... 763-3580 Administration 763-3505 Behavioral Health Crisis ....756-4357 (756-HELP) Routine Service 763-3530 Business Office Credit & Collections 763-3526 Inpatient Accounts ..763-3522 Outpatient Accounts 763-3524 Community Education 763-3541 Dietary 763-3551 I Discharge Planning .... 763-3538 Job Information 763-3508 Laboratory 763-3544 Physical Therapy 763-3577 Pharmacy 763-3575 Public Relations 763-3504 Same Day Surgery 763-3595 Volunteers 763-3581 Women's Center 756-3003 Labor and Delivery .. 763-3604 X-Ray 763-3589 If unable to locate department, please call 763-3300 |