Spotlight on Health is a community publication produced by CentraCare Health.
Fall 2016
Spotlight on Health - Fall 2016 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- Inspired by the heart - LVAD patient
- Events break down barriers, build community
- Continue recovering close to home
- Transitional care at CentraCare Health
- Nationally recognized orthopedic care
- Our healing journey
- New Survivorship Center for those with cancer
- Daily aspirin recommendations have changed
Summer 2016
Spotlight on Health - Summer 2016 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- Visit a farmers market near you
- Long Prairie, Melrose build for the future
- Keep kids safe by keeping bugs off
- CentraCare physicians get workouts on the way to work
- Riding the newest wave in vascular care
- Building a foundation for cancer survivors
- Prescription pain drugs - use and addiction
Spring 2016
Spotlight on Health - Spring 2016 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- TeleStroke — faster treatment, better outcomes
- Lactation consultants provide breastfeeding support to new moms
- Thinking about having a baby?
- One preemie’s amazing story
- Sauk Centre clinic expands
- Wellness, CSA program to start in Long Prairie
- Spring cleaning essentials
- Staying well at home
Winter 2016
Spotlight on Health - Winter 2016 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- Managing the daily rhythm of heart and home
- Paynesville nurses share birthdate fun with oncology patient
- Gorecki Guest House Addition welcomes more guests, keeps families close
- Education is crucial for patients with gestational diabetes
- Project BrainSafe offers concussion awareness, education, treatment
- Events raise more than $400,000 for cancer care
- Chateau Waters brings healthy living home
- Sexuality through the ages
Fall 2015
Spotlight on Health - Fall 2015 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- Bridging the gaps: a course in community improvement
- Dialysis patient donates paintings to kidney program
- I need care. Where do I go?
- New medical campus secured after $500,000 donation from Rosen Family Foundation
- Hunter outfitted with new ankles
- Five fast tips for veggie haters
- Improve your chances of living longer, healthier
Summer 2015
Spotlight on Health - Summer 2015 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- Finding a caregiver for the entire family
- Protect your loved ones through vaccination
- Mental illness - Make It OK
- Summer sun safety tips
- Living well with chronic lung disease
- Gorecki Guest House: a home away from home
- The sweet sound of success
- A walk to remember
Spring 2015
Spotlight on Health - Spring 2015 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- Keeping kids on the ball
- Coordinated care helps cancer patient return to his passion
- A ‘sleep coach’ changed my life
- Cognitive Behavioral Treatment available
- Plan a summer full of healthy family fun!
- Rural health care: one doctor’s mission
- Top 50 Heart Hospital cares for Cold Spring woman with rare heart condition
Winter 2015
Spotlight on Health - Winter 2015 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- A new year, a revived heart
- St. Cloud Hospital — in Top 50 for Cardiovascular Care
- Even distance motorcyclists need a home base
- Losing weight is a family affair
- Leighton Broadcasting supports community by investing in health care
- New CEO’s vision: Improve health, health care
- Gluten-free — is it for you?
- Reverse shoulder replacement puts man back on the road
Fall 2014
Spotlight on Health - Fall 2014 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- Cure your ‘ouch’ from your couch
- Good Health Looks Good on Everyone
- No Bruising — Just Safe Cruising
- Keeping Katie — Family puts trust in hospice, partnership touches many
- Grief & Bereavement Services
- New Primary Care Providers
- Schedule appointments online through MyChart
- Join CentraCare Health Foundation to advance child and adolescent behavioral health care
Summer 2014
Spotlight on Health - Summer 2014 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- Wishes come true at CentraCare Health – Monticello's Birth Center
- Should e-cigarettes be used to help smokers quit?
- Timing is everything
- Understanding the risks with youth sports
- Protect your bones and joints
- Bariatric surgery gives lasting help for diabetes
- OB/GYN fills need for specialized services in rural settings
- Best of beginnings for Blake boys
Spring 2014
Spotlight on Health - Spring 2014 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- Your ER alternative
- New MyChart features
- 5 tips to make TV time healthier
- Reduce your colorectal cancer risk
- Coborn Cancer Center adds TomoTherapy Radiation
- Health care decisions. Who will speak for you?
- Bernicks help kids climb to success
Winter 2014
Spotlight on Health - Winter 2014 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- iPads assist patients with heart failure
- Guide to fighting germs
- Cardiac rehab puts heart patient on road to good health
- Looking to lose weight in 2014? Paynesville Area Health Care System joins CentraCare Health
- Sartell woman shares her story to increase awareness of Alzheimer’s
- Meet Bailey, Coborn Cancer Center’s therapy dog
Fall 2013
Spotlight on Health - Fall 2013 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- St. Cloud Hospital spine surgery gives home court advantage
- Unique heart procedure performed at St. Cloud Hospital
- New joint replacement program brings services closer to patients
- Busting the myths about breast cancer
- St. Benedict’s Senior Community celebrates 35 years
- CentraCare Health – Monticello is expecting! Birth Center to open in December
Summer 2013
Spotlight on Health - Summer 2013 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- Heart failure patient gets second chance
- CentraCare expands to Monticello area
- Cover up to avoid skin cancer
- Diabetes patient passionate about life
- Surgery sheds weight, medication
- Focus on healthy habits, not dieting
- Let the doctors drive to you
- Residential treatment for young people expands
Spring 2013
Spotlight on Health - Spring 2013 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- New hips and knee = new lease on live
- New Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to open this summer
- Family, friends and outstanding health care - Who needs more in life?
Winter 2013
Spotlight on Health - Winter 2013 (PDF)
Features and online resources:
- Patient schedulers ease anxiety after cancer diagnosis
- International travelers can get required immunizations locally
- Transitions coach helps patients return home, stay there
- Know your numbers
- Practice an ‘attitude of gratitude’ and gain a lifetime of health benefits
- Diagnosing and monitoring asthma just got easier
- A legacy of teaching
