Expert Advice, Patient Stories & Tips for Healthy Living
People travel from near and far to participate in the Passavant-Gatorade 5K | 10K, scheduled this year for May 25. “I ran my first Passavant 5K in 1999 and have ran almost every year since,” said Jody Claussen of Jacksonville.…
Issues with reflux? Male over the age of 50? April is National Esophageal Cancer Awareness Month, and this type of cancer affects about 17,000 people per year. Risk factors can also include obesity, family history, heavy alcohol or tobacco use…
There’s a reason they call it labor – childbirth is painful. But strategies to manage pain can ease discomfort. One question many first-time parents ponder is whether or not to use pain medication or to go through natural labor. Regardless…
One-third of Americans report that they get less than the recommended amount of sleep for adults: seven or more hours. Inadequate sleep is detrimental to your health and can contribute to chronic disease and conditions like heart disease, type 2…
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…
At what pivotal time will you or a loved one need blood? January is National Blood Donor Month, and every two seconds, someone in America needs blood. In fact, millions of patients nationwide need lifesaving blood products—including many within our…
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…