Memorial Medical Minute - Fall 2023 Edition
Memorial Health System
Memorial is a multi-specialty medical complex on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
It's officially Fall, and we're enjoying the crisp start to our mornings — even if the cooler air is gone by midday! In Coastal Mississippi, this season means more activity with festivals and celebrations, but it's also the perfect time to take a different type of action.
Prevention takes action, and your – or your loved one’s – mammogram can’t wait. If you have let fear of the unknown stop you from getting a mammogram before, know that our trained and compassionate medical professionals make the screening as comfortable as possible for you.
Don't let cost be a reason you or your loved one doesn’t get screened. Memorial offers mammograms at a reduced rate. Call (228) 867-4095 to schedule your screening and learn more about financial assistance.
PREVENTION TAKES ACTION: ADRIENNE'S BREAST CANCER JOURNEY
In 2021, Adrienne had a clear mammogram. She shares, “My journey started unexpectedly. I chose to go for a breast lift surgery, and at that time, I signed for pathology, which I almost didn’t do. I asked the nurse if I needed to do pathology since I had a clear mammogram last year. At my one-week post-op check, the surgeon told me I had breast cancer. I was extremely shocked because I had been there for elective surgery.”?
Need care now? We offer multiple options to fit your lifestyle, including walk-in clinics, virtual visits, and primary care providers along the Coast.
Make an appointment for an in-person visit or let us bring a Memorial provider to you for a face-to-face, online virtual appointment.
Call (228) 867-5000 for an appointment.
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL GULFPORT IS NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED FOR ITS COMMITMENT TO PROVIDING HIGH-QUALITY STROKE CARE
Memorial Hospital Gulfport has received the American Heart Association’s?Get With The Guidelines??– Stroke?Gold Plus quality achievement award for its commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines, ultimately leading to more lives saved and reduced disability.
Get With The Guidelines puts the expertise of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association to work for hospitals nationwide, helping ensure patient care is aligned with the latest research- and evidence-based guidelines. Get With The Guidelines – Stroke is an in-hospital program for improving stroke care by promoting consistent adherence to these guidelines, which can minimize the long-term effects of a stroke and even prevent death.
MEMORIAL NURSE SECURES FIRST SAFE HAVEN BABY BOX IN MISSISSIPPI
“You have to be on fire for it,” Caitlin says, as she describes her family’s passion for giving parents an anonymous option to safely surrender their infants.
Caitlin is a Registered Nurse in one of Memorial’s infusion clinics, and her husband, Steve, is a Nurse Practitioner in Memorial’s ICU.
Not only do Caitlin and Steve have biological children, but they have also adopted and fostered children for several years, always feeling called to help parents in crisis. The couple has been the driving force in securing the first Safe Haven Baby Box in Mississippi.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes take the face-to-face interaction out of infant surrender and protect the parent from being seen (shbb.org). These climate-controlled boxes are installed in fire stations, hospitals, and emergency response facilities. When a baby is placed in the box, multiple alarms are sounded to alert the first response personnel.
MEMORIAL IN THE COMMUNITY
Team Memorial has been busy supporting our coastal community during the last few months!
If you are interested in learning more about our efforts or if you would like to request our occupational medicine team at your place of business, please contact [email protected].
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Top row: Memorial team members at Hancock County Health Fair and Lyman Community Center. Bottom row: Memorial participated in the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast Great Futures Forum, Memorial Occupational Medicine?at Mississippi Power.
Top row: Many of our team members participated in Out of the Darkness Suicide Prevention Walk and Boys & Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast Day for Kids! Bottom row: Memorial was represented at the Gulf Coast American Heart Association’s annual Heart Walk, and VP of Human Resources Myron McCoo was a participant in Are You Smarter Than a Club Kid benefitting Boys & Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast!
MEMORIAL WELCOMES NEW MEDICAL RESIDENTS AT WHITE COAT CEREMONY
Memorial Health System welcomed 17 new medical residents to its Graduate Medical Education (GME) program during its White Coat Ceremony held on June 28 in Gulfport. The ceremony is a rite of passage to emphasize the importance of compassionate patient care at the very start of training.
This ceremony celebrates the third class of Family Medicine residents and the inaugural class of Internal Medicine residents for the program, aimed to train and graduate well-balanced, compassionate physicians who are willing and dedicated to practice the highest level of medicine.??
What is a medical resident? Learn more here.
VOTED THE BEST AT CARING FOR YOU
At the heart of what we do is you, Coastal Mississippi.
With every advancement, location, and service we provide, we are dedicated to healing, inspiring, and transforming the health of our community.
We are honored that?SunHerald?readers chose Memorial as Best Hospital in the 2023 Best of Coastal Mississippi Awards!
TRANSCATHETER VALVE REPLACEMENT CLINIC OPENS
Memorial Health System has opened its Transcatheter Valve Replacement (TAVR) program at Memorial Hospital Gulfport.
Today, patients who have severe aortic stenosis and are experiencing symptoms have two options to replace their aortic valve: TAVR (transcatheter aortic valve replacement) or open-heart surgery (also known as surgical aortic valve replacement or SAVR). TAVR is a less invasive procedure that doesn't require open heart surgery. The most common technique involves inserting a tiny needle in the blood vessels in the leg, advancing a catheter (hollow plastic tube) through these blood vessels to replace your diseased valve while your heart is still beating.?
A referral from a cardiologist or a consult with The Valve Clinic is needed. The Valve Clinic is located in the Memorial Medical Office Building in Suite 320. Learn more about Memorial Health System’s TAVR program by clicking the button below or by calling (228) 575-2415.?
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