Breastfeeding is natural, but that doesn’t mean it’s always easy. Lactation Consultant Sandra Johnson and Jill Stephens, the first NICU […]
Continue to ArticleMs. Barbara Bryan has been a resident of Memorial Driftwood Nursing Center for several years. She enjoys playing bingo, socializing […]
Continue to ArticleIf you start to feel sick, use this chart as a guideline for what you might have. This doesn’t replace […]
Continue to ArticleOur Resident of the Month for April, 2022 is Ms. Norma Carlton. Ms. Carlton has been with Memorial Driftwood Nursing Center since September, 2021. […]
Continue to ArticleBritta Stewart Ms. Britta Stewart has been with Memorial Driftwood Nursing Center since January, 2020. Ms. Stewart is a kind, […]
Continue to ArticleMemorial Hospital has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get with The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. Memorial earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients for a…
Continue to ArticleMemorial continues to encourage community members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. To allow for more individuals to get vaccinated against the virus, Memorial will offer vaccine at five additional clinics available to the public. This brings the total to 14 Memorial clinics spanning four counties where the COVID-19 vaccine is available. Persons aged 12 years and older (17 or younger must be accompanied by an adult) may receive the vaccination at the following locations; new locations are in bold: Family …
Continue to ArticleBy Lynn Lofton South Mississippi Living Everyone occasionally experiences that feeling of numbness or tingling in a foot when we say, Two medical specialists say that’s not a problem – unless it persists. The official term is paresthesia, according to internal medicine physician Dr. Timothy Ivey of Singing River Health System. he said. “Numbness can be caused…
Continue to ArticleMemorial is scheduling appointments for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for Mississippi residents (or to out-of-state residents who work in Mississippi) on Tuesday, March 16, 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m., at the Lyman Community Center, located at 13472 Highway 49 in Gulfport. By appointment only. To schedule an appointment, call the COVID-19 Hotline at (228) 867-5000 , Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information visit the Mississippi State Department of Health .
Continue to ArticleGULFPORT, Miss.—Memorial Cancer Center welcomes Andrew O’Leary, DO, in association with Rod Krentel, MD, in the practice of radiation oncology at Memorial Cancer Center, 1340 Broad Ave, Suite 140, Gulfport. Dr. O’Leary received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, Ohio. He completed his Radiation Oncology Residency at the University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve, and his internal medicine internship at Grandview Medical Ce…
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