Rick Wyman, president of Meredith Village Savings Bank, recently visited Speare’s Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine Center to present a donation for the purchase of an ankle-brachial index (ABI) device. “The community has always been at the heart of our mission,” says Rick. “We are thrilled to have played a small role in the hospital’s […]
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For the 3rd consecutive year, the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center at Speare Memorial Hospital has exceeded quality measures in patient care and has received the Robert A. Warriner III, M.D. Center of Excellence Award from Healogics. Centers are only eligible for the Center of Excellence Award when they have proven clinical excellence by meeting
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The Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine Center at Speare has earned the prestigious Robert A. Warriner III, MD, Center of Excellence award. Centers earning this award must achieve outstanding clinical results for 24 consecutive months, including patient satisfaction rates higher than 92% and a healing rate of at least 91% in less than 31 median
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September is Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) Awareness Month. Physicians, clinicians, and staff at Speare Memorial Hospital participated in The Save a Leg, Save a Life (SALSAL) Foundation’s White Sock Campaign. The goal is to raise awareness of PAD and early detection through one simple tool: a white sock. The white sock symbolizes the many patients
June 1 through Jun 5, 2015 is Wound Care Awareness Week. Currently 6.7 million patients are suffering with non-healing advanced wounds and that number is expected to rise at a rate of 2 percent annually over the next decade. Increased rates of diseases and conditions such as diabetes, obesity, the late effects of radiation therapy as well
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His story begins 10 years ago, when Bob was scheduled to have a routine colonoscopy at another hospital. Both Bob and his doctors were aware that he had a naval hernia, but it wasn’t believed to be very large and it wasn’t bothering him. The hernia became more of a focal point after Bob’s colon
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