A special partnership this school year between Decatur Memorial Hospital (DMH) and Hope Academy brings the smiles and makes a difference for students and families. Hope Academy serves about 575 students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Each month, representatives of…
Judi McDowell-Humphrey, 69, of Mt. Zion, survived tonsil cancer more than 20 years ago. Today, with help from Memorial Specialty Care surgeon Ranjodh Singh, MD, the avid scuba diver is beating colorectal cancer and planning a scuba trip with her…
For 20 years, Alan Kline, now 76, had tried a number of different medications to control the essential tremors that increasingly complicated simple tasks like eating, drinking or writing. The eleven-year volunteer at Lincoln Memorial Hospital (LMH) grew increasingly isolated…
Memorial Home Medical Supply will go pink to honor those in a fight against breast cancer. Mastectomy boutique locations in Decatur and Springfield host a fit-day event every October for three days for women to review different options and learn…
There are new weapons in the fight to protect yourself against COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency use authorization to a new pair of COVID-19 booster shots designed to help protect people from the most prevalent subvariants of the…
Alanna and Blake Wood of Springfield appreciated the new updated birth suites at SMH when Alanna delivered their son, Nolan Wood, in early August. “It was so nice that all the after-birth procedures on me and Baby Nolan could be…
September is National Food Safety Education Month. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, there are about 48 million cases of foodborne illness in the United States each year. At Memorial Health, our five hospitals follow the FDA Food…
Does Grandma know best? Usually! But when it comes to recommended best practices for infant safety, a lot has changed over the past 100 years. September is Baby Safety Month—an opportunity to see how far we have come in protecting…
The nursing shortage has hit healthcare hard over the past several years. But future nursing students throughout central Illinois now have additional educational opportunities thanks to a new partnership between Memorial Health and Illinois State University’s Mennonite College of Nursing…
Workplace stress is highly personal. Some people thrive in fast-paced jobs, such as emergency room nurses, police officers and air-traffic controllers. These are stressful jobs where making a mistake can put people’s lives at risk. Some of us wouldn’t last…