The Geary Community Hospital Board of Trustees have approved the purchase of new stress test equipment to be used by the Rago Radiology Department at GCH.

The new Nuclear Cardiac Stress Machine will replace the current machine that is over 12 years old according to Pat Small, Rago Radiology Director.

“We purchased it back in 2002 and we just feel like it’s time to get a new upgrade on it,” said Small.

The old machine did come with end of life letters that were dated in 2012. The manufacturer would no longer do service or preventive maintenance on the system.

The Board of Trustees approved the purchase of a new GE Case system at the cost of $26,155.70. It will come with a 1 year warranty and the GE Case did offer a $1,000 trade in value for the old equipment.

The new machine is expected to take three to four weeks to be delivered. The price of the new equipment was included in this years budget.