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Katie Henderson, RN is pictured with a computer that is used to provide new telestroke services for stroke care in minutes to the communities that Union Medical Center, Spartanburg Medical Center, Cherokee Medical Center and Pelham Medical Center serve.
Stroke care within minutes
When someone is having a stroke, every second counts. But when you live in a smaller town that may n...
September 30, 2019
A picture of hands using a pipette in a research lab is used to represent Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System — Gibbs Cancer Center, Bon Secours St. Francis Health System and AnMed Health being awarded a $14,402,940 grant to fight cancer.
$14 million extends Upstate cancer fight
Three Upstate healthcare powerhouses are joining forces to fight a common enemy — cancer. Spartan...
September 16, 2019
Mature woman's hands are signing end-of-life planning forms and documents
Preparing for a medical emergency
People are often not prepared for an emergency — especially when it involves medical and end-of-life...
August 21, 2019
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Foundation grant enables purchase of automated CPR machine
Since he was a little boy watching the 1970s TV show “Emergency,” Eric Harold wanted to be an emerge...
July 16, 2019
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Transported to a new place through virtual reality
There may be something you never got to do, like travel to the Grand Canyon. Or maybe you want to se...
July 2, 2019
A woman's hands massaging pressure points on the bottom heel of her foot
“I dreaded walking”
Each morning, Darlene Estes had to figure out how to walk. “I dreaded waking up, because I could ...
June 28, 2019
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Watchman wins the fight
For many heart and stroke patients, blood-thinning medicines are lifesaving but life-limiting. Bu...
June 17, 2019
Occupational therapist Michael Maeder works with Glenn Allum, who recently received a toe to thumb transpant surgery after he lost his thumb in an accident with a wood splitter.jpg
Toe-to-thumb transplant – a first for Spartanburg Medical Center
It almost looks like a thumb now. It definitely works like one. On Feb. 10, a log splitter cut Gl...
May 21, 2019
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