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Mercy Health adds urological specialists

Urology team will soon offer outreach in Bluffton
Posted by Icon K on October 27, 2019 - 6:00am

Mercy Health has announced the expansion and enhanced access to urology care in the Lima region with the addition of new urological specialists at St. Rita’s Medical Center.  

Bradley Buck, MD, Daniel Murtagh, MD; Omar Khan, MD, and Hesham Mostafa, MD; have partnered with Ignacio Sarmina, MD, and the team at Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Urology. 

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Regional news
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Four mammogram myths debunked

Posted by LizGH on October 27, 2019 - 6:00am

Note: this article is provided by ONU Healthwise Pharmacy.
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we're debunking four common mammogram myths.

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Health Services
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Dark but comic

Arsenic and Old Lace university’s fall drama
Posted by Icon K on October 27, 2019 - 6:00am

 Dark comedy plays a central role in Bluffton University’s fall play, “Arsenic and Old Lace” by Joseph Kesselring. The play centers around theatre critic Mortimer Brewster, whose charming and charitable aunts have an unusual ministry – helping lonely boarders to their heavenly rest by serving poisoned elderberry wine. 

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Bluffton University
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New music program at Mercy Health - St. Rita's

Posted by Icon K on October 26, 2019 - 6:00am

Music therapy has been recognized as an effective form of reducing anxiety and stress. For example, many studies have supported the findings of listening to music prior to a surgery because it reduces the need for using sedative medication.

Now, musicians from the community can help provide comfort and healing to patients and all those who enter the doors of Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Medical Center. It is all thanks to a donation from St. Rita’s Volunteer/Auxiliary Resources; a baby grand piano now resides in the lobby of the facility.

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Business
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Sign-up underway for holiday memorial wreath-making

Posted by Icon K on October 26, 2019 - 6:00am

Bridge Hospice Bereavement Services is offering a “Holiday Memorial Wreath-making” event at two locations for those who have lost a loved one. 

Guests will create and display a wreath in memory of loved ones this holiday season. The entire family is welcome to participate in this activity.

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Weekend doctor: When should I be screened for cancer?

Posted by LizGH on October 26, 2019 - 6:00am

By Brianne Hottinger, MSN, RN, OCN, CBCN, TTS
The number one reason to be screened for cancer is to find it in its earliest stages and have a greater potential for cure.

The following are the latest screening guidelines, according to the American Cancer Society: 

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Blanchard Valley Health System
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