Siemens Healthcare of Malvern, PA, has donated an MRI scanner to a Georgia hospital that was destroyed by a tornado in 2007.
Siemens donated a Magnetom Essenza 1.5-tesla scanner to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus. The hospital was destroyed on the night of March 1, 2007, by an F-3 category tornado, with winds reaching speeds of 165 miles per hour.
Siemens learned about the hospital's plight during its Win an MRI contest in the fall of 2007, and in January 2008, the company announced that it would donate an Essenza scanner valued at $800,000 to the hospital once it was rebuilt and could support the system.
Hospital officials and state and local dignitaries were on hand to welcome the unit at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 4.
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