Rediscover your go with the latest in joint replacement technologies
Written By: Kelli Koch
Marketing/Communications Specialist
Southeastern Med
kjkoch@seormc.org
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, May 18, 2011 – Nagging pain in the hip and knee forces more than 500,000 people to undergo joint replacement surgery each year. And for years, doctors asked younger patients to live with the pain to avoid revision surgery a decade down the road. Those days are officially over.
Corey A. Jackson, DO, orthopedic surgeon at Southeastern Med, now offers a solution called Verilast Technology. It’s a metal alloy – oxinium – that has the feel of a ceramic and is supported by new FDA approved evidence. This smoother surface allows less scratching and less wear. It can last 30 years, while the old chrome cersion lasted just 15. And simulations show, after three decades the alloy has 81 percent less wear than three years of the chrome.
Join Dr. Jackson and Sara Saft, MS, PA-C as they take you step-by-step through the new 30 year hip and knee replacement, as well as the direct anterior approach to hip replacement surgery on May 25, from 6-7 p.m. at Southeastern Med, located at 1341 Clark St., in Cambridge.
Light refreshments will be served. Registration to the presentation is required by May 24. To register for the presentation, please call 740-439-8187.
Southeastern Med Awards Anti-Tobacco Competition Winners
Kelli Koch
Martketing/Communications Specialist
Southeastern Med
kjkoch@seormc.org
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, April 27, 2011 - Everyday more than 6,000 children experiment with a tobacco product, and 50 percent of them become regular tobacco users.
Southeastern Med honored eight fifth grade students in Guernsey and Noble counties, whose drawings were entered into the Ohio Tar Wars poster contest, with a pizza party and a $25 gift card. The winners pictured left to right are: Trinity Milliken from St. Benedicts School; Destiny Berry from Brooke Elementary; Faith Dimmerling from Shenandoah Elementary; Gabrielle Huggins, Cambridge South Elementary; Parker Yontz from Byesville Elementary; Amiya Mourer from Cambridge Central Elementary; Chloe Elliott from Cambridge North Elementary; and Paige Ferguson from Caldwell Elementary. The American Academy of Family Physicians selected Chloe Elliott’s poster as its first place winner for Ohio, Paige Ferguson won third place and Destiny Berry received fourth place.
Tar Wars is a national initiative of the American Academy of Family Physicians designed to curtail the fast growing rate of childhood smokers by educating students, mobilizing the efforts of healthcare providers and encouraging community involvement. Tar Wars is co-sponsored locally by the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians Foundation and Southeastern Med.
Southeastern Med’s Camp Go! Registration Underway
Kelli Koch
Marketing/Communication Specialist
Southeastern Med
kjkoch@seormc.org
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, May 3, 2011 - Looking for something to keep your child active and away from the television this summer? If your child will be entering the third, fourth or fifth grade and is at an unhealthy weight, consider registering him or her for Southeastern Med’s Camp Go!
Camp Go! will be held June 13 to June 16 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and June 17 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Cambridge YMCA Family Center, 1301 Clairmont Ave., in Cambridge. Camp Go! provides a safe and supportive environment for children to explore exercise through sports, games, swimming, arts, crafts and much more. They also learn about healthy eating and making the right food choices to live a healthy life style.
Camp Go! is a combined effort of Southeastern Med, the Cambridge Area YMCA, and the Guernsey County Health Department along with significant monetary contributions from Southeastern Med’s Auxiliary, William (Buck) and Nancy Meighen, Medical Associates, and Dr. Pat and Karen Goggin.
The cost to attend Camp Go! is $35 per child. Campers will be provided with lunch and snacks each day, transportation and admittance to all events, a Camp Go! t-shirt and lots of surprises along the way.
Space is limited to 24 campers, so don’t delay. The registration deadline is June 3. To learn more about Camp Go! or to receive a registration packet, please call 740-439-8977.
Local Breast Health Program Awarded Funding from Komen Columbus
Contact: Kelli Koch
Marketing/Communications Specialist
Southeastern Med
kjkoch@seormc.org
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, April 20, 2011 – Southeastern Med was recently awarded more than $53,000 from the Columbus Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure to fund the medical center’s Power Me Pink program. Southeastern Med was one of 31 breast health programs to receive more than $1.5 million in funding from Komen Columbus.
“Every dollar raised helps save lives in Ohio. Sadly, Ohio still has the fourth highest mortality rate from breast cancer, but we are doing our best to lower that statistic,” said Katie Carter, executive director of Komen Columbus. “Each year we are able to fund more breast health programs with more dollars to make a bigger impact for women in our 30-county service area. This year the majority of our dollars are going to ensure that thousands of underserved and under-insured Ohioans will get screened for breast cancer. Other focuses for our dollars are education and outreach programs and breast cancer treatment and survivor support programs.”
Southeastern Med’s Power Me Pink project provides women who are uninsured and underinsured with breast health education, clinical breast exams, mammograms and additional testing if necessary. The program serves women 35 years and older who earn between 250-300 percent of the poverty level with breast health education and mammograms. The project also reaches women younger than 35 years of age who have a family history of breast cancer.
“We are excited the Komen Foundation continued the Power Me Pink program funding for another year,” said Becky Wheeler, cancer registrar at Southeastern Med. “This is a wonderful opportunity for women in our community who otherwise might not have mammogram testing. Education, as well as knowing your family history, conducting regular self-breast exams, receiving clinical breast exams annually from a health professional, and having regular mammography screening are the best defense in fighting breast cancer.”
The funds that make Southeastern Med’s Power Me Pink program possible are due to the generosity of Komen Columbus supporters – notably the more than 50,000 people who participated in the 2010 Komen Columbus Race for the Cure. Komen Columbus has raised more than $17 million since it began in 1993; 75 percent of that money stays in its 30-county service area and is used to conduct breast cancer education, screening and treatment programs. The other 25 percent goes to Susan G. Komen for the Cure to fund national breast cancer research programs. For more information, please visit www.komencolumbus.org or call the Komen Columbus office at (614) 297-8155.
