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by Lynn Lofton Published: December 12,2010
Tags: Eddie Glatfelter, May Larson, Phil Torjusen, Tommy Kelley
Laser therapy can help smokers kick addiction Various methods are being used to help smokers kick the nicotine habit and have healthier life styles. An Ocean Springs clinic has added cold laser treatment to the list of smoking cessations methods that work. The Laser Therapy Group has been open four years and uses laser therapy [...] [...]
by Nash Nunnery Published: December 12,2010
Those treated for diabetes say they have received their lives back to live again The thought of losing an arm or leg to amputation is mind-boggling to most people. Mary Alice Outlaw knows all too well. The Greenwood furniture upholsterer, who was diagnosed with diabetes in 2002, had her left leg removed in 2009 due [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: December 12,2010
Tags: Cecelia Flach, Chris Dannreuther, Col. Tom Adams, Dan Day, Gerald Strayhan, Gwen Gollotte, John Pittman, Kerri Fellman, Larry Calvert, Martha Murphy, Ray Calvert, St. Vincent de Paul Community Pharmacy, Theresa Pavlov
Free community pharmacy helping Coast residents The St. Vincent de Paul Community Pharmacy is all about caring and helping people who can’t afford their prescription medicine. The only service of its kind in South Mississippi, it began in 1998 in Biloxi and now has a satellite office in Bay St. Louis. During the past six [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: December 12,2010
As one of state’s few women CEOs, Waltz leading Gulfport hospital As chief executive officer of Garden Park Medical Center in Gulfport, Brenda M. Waltz is the only female hospital administrator on the Coast and one of few in Mississippi. She came to the position last August after serving as the CEO of hospitals in [...] [...]
by Nash Nunnery Published: December 12,2010
Adcock is retiring this month after nearly 42 years at the SBA When Judi Adcock first arrived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1968, she thought she’d found nirvana. “My then-husband was in the Air Force and he got transferred to Biloxi, a place I’d never heard of,” she said. “We drove over to Bay [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: December 12,2010
Tags: Baptist Hospital-North Mississippi, Don Hutson, Lloyd Oliphant, Pat Patterson
Progress toward new facility on hold until city, county give approval Baptist Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford has plans to build a new $300-million facility to replace its current building that dates back to the 1960s. Plans for the new facility were announced in 2009, but there still is no agreement in place between Baptist, the [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: October 24,2010
Tags: Department of Mental Health, Dr. Edwin LeGrand, Gov. Haley Barbour, Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant
DMH desperate to keep facilities open, available Last Tuesday, Gov. Haley Barbour asked state agencies to submit to him by Nov. 1 cost-cutting plans for fiscal year 2012. The request comes in advance of Barbour’s executive budget recommendation he will unveil in November, and is designed to provide a financial outline for the massive budget [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: October 24,2010
Tags: Dr. Vann Craig, Ricki Garrett
Hopes are that new program will help alleviate future issues While the relationship between nurse practitioners and physician assistants has historically been competitive, there is a chance things could soften, with the executive director of the Mississippi Nurses Association having recently taken a spot on the advisory board of Mississippi College’s new physician assistants program. [...] [...]
by Lynn Lofton Published: October 24,2010
Tags: Chris Anderson, Madelline Collazo, Ocean Springs Hospital, Singing River Health System, Singing River Hospital
New $2.7-million medical park, wellness center part new construction, improvements At a time when some hospitals are struggling with financial and staffing issues, the Singing River Health System is thriving. Based in Pascagoula, the system includes Singing River Hospital and Ocean Springs Hospital. The system is moving forward with a new $22.7-million medical park and [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: October 24,2010
Tags: American Academy of Family Physicians, Dr. Bob Philpot, Kim Gray, Ricki Garrett
MC’s new PA program may help with statewide shortage The American Academy of Family Physicians estimates that by 2020 the U.S. will have a shortage of family practitioners that could exceed 40,000. In Mississippi, the Mississippi Academy of Physician Assistants thinks it can fill the void. Currently, there are 100 practicing physician’s assistants in Mississippi, [...] [...]
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