Expert Advice, Patient Stories & Tips for Healthy Living
Several long-held pre- and postsurgical practices – fasting, heavy IV fluids, powerful post-op narcotics and bed rest – are being reexamined, as facilities like Passavant have adopted a set of “enhanced recovery” protocols to help surgery patients spend less time…
If you have a serious wound, or a wound that is slow to heal, hyperbaric oxygen therapy could help put you on the road to recovery. The Wound Healing Center at Memorial Medical Center offers hyperbaric oxygen therapy to residents…
If you spend time online, you’ve seen the stories. Moms asked to cover up or stop breastfeeding in public as to not offend people around them. While health experts and most of society agree “breast is best” when it comes…
Kati Fryman, BSN, RN, CWON, loves interacting with her patients in an outpatient setting at the Passavant Area Hospital Advanced Wound Healing Center. “Because you see patients multiple times a week, you really get to know them and their family,”…
Volunteers from the American Heart Association and Illinois National Bank (INB), the local sponsor of the Little Hats, Big Hearts™ campaign, delivered red knitted and crocheted hats packaged with information about congenital heart defects and the American Heart Association online…
Annual screening mammograms are the most effective way to diagnose breast cancer. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said only 65 percent of women age 40 and older had a mammogram in the last two years. Screening mammograms…
In the United States, nearly 124,000 adults and children await an organ transplant—more than 5,000 in Illinois alone. In April, National Donate Life Month, please consider these steps to significantly impact the lives of others from Sara Danner, transplant financial…
Jacksonville’s Beard family understands they have a choice when it comes to healthcare. Over and over again, they choose Passavant Area Hospital—seven times for orthopedic care alone in the past several years. Erica Beard is an old soul when it…
Phil McCarty, 38, was finishing 30 pull-ups in a friendly competition among friends at the Triple Threat gym in Jacksonville when he lost consciousness and fell 10 feet to the floor, landing on his back and bouncing his head twice…