Seminar for Haywood Regional Medical Center’s Nursing Grand Rounds

To understand the Cherokee people, one must first know the history of these Native Americans, said Quana Winstead, who works as a physician’s assistant at the Cherokee Diabetes Clinic. Winstead was the guest speaker for Haywood Regional Medical Center’s Nursing Grand Rounds seminar.
Indian flute music softly played while warm bowls of corn chowder and thick [...]

CIGNA Foundation Invites Public to Free Forum on Maintaining a Healthy State of Mind

To help people maintain a healthy state of mind during tough times, the CIGNA Foundation is convening a community forum on Mind/Body Wellness in Philadelphia from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 15 at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel.
The Mind/Body Forum, second in a series hosted by the CIGNA Foundation, will bring together [...]

Saint Luke’s – East opens fourth floor

East in Lee’s Summit held the ribbon-cutting for its newly completed fourth floor.
The fourth floor will open to the public on Oct. 6 and will give the hospital an additional 30 beds with the opportunity to eventually expand to 87 beds.
The entire floor is 54,109 square feet — with each room about 395 square feet.
In [...]

Dealing with loss

Sixteen-year-old Francesca Mirenda of Altoona does not have many memories of her father, Rob, who died of skin cancer when he was 31 and she was just 5.
Although her fondest memories are of playing basketball with her dad, she also remembers sadder times – feeding her dad ice cream at the hospital and telling her [...]

She was employed as a CNA with Golden Living Nursing Home in Oxford and Sunshine Nursing Home in Pontotoc before her retirement.

Brittany Nicole Wilson, 23, died Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008, at North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. She was born on Aug. 5, 1985, in Tupelo to Mike Wilson and Robin Rollins Wilson Grass. She graduated from Shannon High School in 2003 and attended Itawamba Community College. She was employed as a waitress [...]

Doris L. Manatt was a 1941 graduate of Leominster High School and graduated from the Burbank School of Nursing, Class of 1945, in Fitchburg as a registered nurse

Paul Florent Gibson, 89, of Manassas, formerly of Acton, died Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, at Manassas Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Born March 5, 1919 in Pittsburgh, Pa., he was the son of Florent and Beatrice Wertz Gibson. On Nov. 4, 1941 in Pittsburgh, he married the former Jeanne (Shangraw) Sheldon who preceded him in death on [...]