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- May 17, 2012
Avera St. Luke’s Auxiliary Awards 5 Scholarships
Five $500 scholarships have been awarded by Avera St. Luke’s Auxiliary. These scholarships are awarded each year to area high school seniors planning to enter the health care field.
- May 16, 2012
Avera Bulletin - May 2012
- May 16, 2012
Certification Earned by Aberdeen FertilityCare Practitioners
David Wachs, MD, of Avera Aberdeen Family Physicians and his wife, Marilyn Wachs, have both been granted renewal of certification as FertilityCare Practitioners (CFCP) by the Commission on Certification of the American Academy of FertilityCare Professionals.
- May 15, 2012
New Avera Breast Cancer Website is the First Customized Site of its Kind
The Avera Breast Center at the Avera Cancer Institute has launched a new online guide to breast cancer created by Vladimir Lange, MD, an expert on helping patients and their families cope with a diagnosis of breast cancer.
- May 14, 2012
National Cancer Survivors Day Celebration Planned
- May 10, 2012
Babies Lost to Miscarriage Being Remembered at Memorial Service
The annual memorial service and interment to remember babies lost through miscarriage and stillbirth, a gesture of caring from Avera St. Luke’s Hospital in cooperation with Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home and Aberdeen’s Riverside Cemetery, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 19, at the cemetery, 1706 W. Melgaard Road.
- May 10, 2012
Baby-Sitting Cinic Offered by Avera St. Luke’s
Avera St. Luke’s baby-sitting clinic, open to boys and girls going into fifth, sixth or seventh grade, is being offered three times, May 23, May 24 or May 25, at Avera St. Luke’s Education Center, 709 Sixth Ave. S.E. in Aberdeen.
- May 7, 2012
Allergies May Be a Mild Nuisance, or a Life-Threatening Condition
Ranging from a barely noticeable nuisance to a life-threatening condition, allergies are an all-too-common medical condition in children that may or may not require medical attention.
- May 7, 2012
Avera Cancer Institute Partners with Eppley Cancer Center in Forming a New Breast Cancer Network and Registry
- May 4, 2012
Avera McKennan Marketing Team Honored with Six National Aster Awards
- May 4, 2012
Researchers from Avera-Vrije University Collaborative Published in European Journal of Human Genetics
The article details results from genetic analyses of identical twins from NTR, showing that identical twins can have different DNA, disputing the long-held belief that identical twins are truly the same on the genetic level.
- May 1, 2012
Open House Showcases Avera St. Luke’s Medical Care Division Remodel
Completion of Avera St. Luke’s Hospital’s Third Floor - Medical Care Division remodeling and redesign will be celebrated with an open house from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 9. This event will include a tour, discussion of upgrades and patient-focused improvements, plus refreshments. A blessing and ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 2:45 p.m.
The $1.2 million project is highlighted by decentralized nurses’ stations and a new floor design that increases effectiveness in the delivery of care, improves patient safety, reduces staff stress, and ultimately improves outcomes and the overall quality of health care that Avera St. Luke’s provides.
- April 25, 2012
‘Room Service’ Comes to Avera St. Luke’s
Avera St. Luke’s Hospital patients will soon be ordering “Room Service,” featuring restaurant-quality meals served to patients on demand throughout the day by specially trained hosts and hostesses.
- April 23, 2012
May is Health Care Month in Wessington Springs
In observance of Wessington Springs Health Care Month, Mayor Greg Vavra joined the Health Education Team for a photo and signed an Executive Proclamation designating the month of May as Wessington Springs Health Care Month.
- April 18, 2012
Avera Brady Receives $275,000 Pledge
- April 18, 2012
Avera Bulletin - April 2012
- April 14, 2012
Avera St. Luke's Careflight Helicopter Makes Hard Landing
Around 3:15 a.m. on Saturday morning (4/14/2012), the Avera St. Luke’s Careflight helicopter was returning to the hospital after refueling at the airport when the pilot in command heard an unusual noise in the aircraft and began to perform a precautionary landing.
- April 5, 2012
Healthy Cooking Demonstration - Avera Queen of Peace
- April 5, 2012
If You’re Age 50 or Older, Don’t Forego this Test that Can Prevent Cancer and Save Your Life
Colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable of all types of cancer, yet only about half of people who fall within recommended screening guidelines take advantage of a lifesaving test that’s only needed once every 10 years.
- April 5, 2012
Include Exercise to Benefit Your Heart in Your Daily Routine
We’d all like to appear fit and trim on the outside – after all, isn’t this the payoff for all the hard work of exercise? Yet what’s inside is even more important – especially the pump in the middle of your chest that keeps you alive!
