Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a course that teaches participants to recognize, understand and respond to individuals displaying signs of mental illness or substance use disorders. This course provides education on how to offer initial support to someone who…
Issues with reflux? Male over the age of 50? April is National Esophageal Cancer Awareness Month, and this type of cancer affects about 17,000 people per year. Risk factors can also include obesity, family history, heavy alcohol or tobacco use…
Charlie Kuntzman was skeptical when he walked into his first Diabetes Self-Management class last November at Taylorville Memorial Hospital (TMH). The 82-year-old diabetic, who had retired as an investigative analyst in 1995 from the FBI after 40 years of service,…
Physical comfort is often the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of hospice care. However, Memorial Hospice comprises a team of care providers across disciplines, including spiritual, to help patients and their families navigate their difficult situation and…
Erie Miller, now 67, has dealt on and off with anxiety since he was in high school, but it was Taylorville Memorial Hospital’s Senior Life Solutions program that helped him train his mind to not automatically default to anxiety. “When…
Only an extended Springfield hospital stay during last year’s holiday season kept Wreatha Riva out of the lazy river at the Taylorville YMCA. But thanks to two weeks at the Turn the Corner Swing Bed Program at Taylorville Memorial Hospital,…
Earlier in her life, Dolores Shoup didn’t have many opportunities to celebrate her birthday. But that changed when she moved to a group home for people with developmental disabilities in Taylorville 14 years ago. Since then, Dolores has enjoyed celebrating the…
Debbie Thomas was not going to schedule her yearly mammogram in 2016, but her husband Tim had other ideas. “Every year, I have such a horrible time with mammograms on my right side,” the 61-year-old unit clerk at Taylorville Memorial…
Annual screening mammograms are the most effective way to diagnose breast cancer. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said only 65 percent of women age 40 and older had a mammogram in the last two years. Screening mammograms…
The decision to drink and drive was not a smart way to start 2017 for Taylorville teenager Carter Sinkhorn. Early New Year’s morning, Carter, then 17, crashed his truck into a tree, less than a mile from home. Thanks to…