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Wounds That Don’t Heal – Advanced Wound Care
Read more: Wounds That Don’t Heal – Advanced Wound CareIf you or a loved one have ever suffered from a wound that does not show improvement within four weeks of treatment or requires daily treatment and dressings, it should be referred to a wound specialist for further assessment and treatment. Chronic wounds affect nearly six million patients in America, costing the US health care…
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Making Cesarean Deliveries Special for Mom and Baby – One Mother’s Gentle C-Section Story
Read more: Making Cesarean Deliveries Special for Mom and Baby – One Mother’s Gentle C-Section StoryLacey Marsh woke early in the morning on December 2, 2014 and knew it was time. “We got to Hillcrest at 3 a.m. and went straight to triage,” she recalls. Lacey was indeed in labor and admitted to Labor and Delivery at the Peggy V. Helmerich Women’s Health Center at Hillcrest Medical Center shortly after…
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Dietary Guidelines for 2015 – What’s In and What’s Out
Read more: Dietary Guidelines for 2015 – What’s In and What’s OutRecently released Dietary Guidelines of 2015 have Hillcrest South dietitians weighing in and providing their expert opinions for the key takeaways for what’s in, what’s out and what’s neutral this year. Food industries, they say, fight tooth and nail to make sure any new recommendations continue to keep them in a positive light. Any reduction in intake…
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Hillcrest Partners with Tulsa Roughnecks
Read more: Hillcrest Partners with Tulsa RoughnecksThe Tulsa Roughnecks and Hillcrest HealthCare System recently announced a major partnership between the two organizations. In the agreement, Hillcrest HealthCare System will be the Official Medical Provider of the Roughnecks soccer team as well as the presenting sponsor of the team’s inaugural 2015 season. “Today is an important day for our new soccer team,”…
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Budget-Friendly Nutrition
Read more: Budget-Friendly NutritionBusy lives, tight budgets and rising prices at the grocery store may have many families choosing what they think are the cheaper and faster food choices, costing their family nutritional balance in the meantime. Before you pick up the phone to dial in dinner or head towards another drive-thru, consider these tips from The Centers for…
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When it comes to reading food labels, what’s most important?
Read more: When it comes to reading food labels, what’s most important?When making better food choices for you and your family, it may not always be clear when roaming grocery aisles. When you pick up a box of cereal or can of vegetables, you’ll find a nutrition facts label on the package. You may not think to read all those tiny numbers; but taking a few…
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New Cardiac Catheterization Lab Opens at Hillcrest Hospital Claremore
Read more: New Cardiac Catheterization Lab Opens at Hillcrest Hospital ClaremoreAdvanced cardiology care is now available in Claremore. Hillcrest Hospital Claremore has opened a new cardiac catheterization lab, which began seeing patients in January. A cardiac catheterization is a minimally-invasive procedure where a catheter (or very thin tube) is guided through an artery and up into a chamber or vessel of the heart. This procedure can be used for diagnostic purposes, such…
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Inside Cardiac Rehab at Hillcrest South
Read more: Inside Cardiac Rehab at Hillcrest SouthAfter surviving a heart attack or major cardiovascular event, new questions, fears and doubt present new considerations for everyday life. What if I have another heart attack? Will I be able to go back to work? Resume my daily activities? How will I know when my heart has healed? Living with heart disease changes your life for…
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Matters of the Heart – Gary’s Story
Read more: Matters of the Heart – Gary’s StoryGary Hageman, 70, a heart attack survivor at the age of 58, never thought he would have to endure another heart procedure. He experienced a heart attack twelve years prior, resulting in a quadruple bypass surgery in Fort Smith, AR. Aware of his past history and heart health, Gary and his wife, Artheia, decided to…
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Heart Disease Does Not Just Happen To Other People
Read more: Heart Disease Does Not Just Happen To Other People100,000 beats a day.2,000 gallons pumped throughout your body.The only organ not controlled by the brain.The number one killer of men and women in our country. The heart is an amazing organ, one which cardiologists study like a machine to understand how each part and functionality works together – or better yet, how to fix…
