Rona Womack Promoted to Nurse Manager for Senior Behavioral Health
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Parkwest Medical Center announces that Rona Womack, RN, has been named Nurse Manager for the Senior Behavioral Health unit. This promotion comes after 18 years of service within several departments at Covenant Health facilities.
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Nagle named 10-Foot Award Winner
Monday, May 20, 2013
Valerie Nagle isn’t a nurse, but she does make people feel better.
That’s because Nagle, a health unit coordinator in the Ambulatory Staging Unit of Parkwest Medical Center, smiles.
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Nursing excellence
Monday, May 20, 2013
A pair of veteran nurses – one a certified wound and ostomy care nurse and the other known for enhancing the intravenous skills of the nursing staff – recently took the top award at Parkwest Medical Center’s annual National Nurses Week reception to recognize nursing excellence.
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Lynn Cagle Named Administrative Director of Nursing
Monday, May 20, 2013
Parkwest Medical Center has announced the promotion of Lynn Cagle, BSN, to administrative director of nursing. Cagle will direct day-to-day nursing operations for Parkwest and oversee the directors of clinical services.
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New vice president announced at Peninsula, a division of Parkwest
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Liz Clary, RN, has been promoted to the position of vice president of behavioral health for Peninsula, a division of Parkwest.
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Sleep Apnea
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Sleep apnea is a serious, potentially life-threatening condition that is far more common than generally understood with as many as 18 million Americans estimated to have it.
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Change of heart
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
He’d had rough nights before, the kind when Warren Wilson would wake up the next morning feeling drowsy, tired, achey or as if he’d been beaten in his sleep.
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Parkwest’s Volunteer Army
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Blue-jacketed heroes make a difference every day
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Rx for recovery: Pharmacist discusses medicines used to treat mental illness
Monday, April 29, 2013
Call them psychotropics, psychoactives or psychopharmaceuticals. Whatever you call these medications, Peninsula Pharmacist Cheryl Gray says they are merely one tool that aids in recovery from mental illness.
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A deacon’s heart: TAVR gives Cumberland Gap man new life
Monday, April 29, 2013
Ray Rogers of Cumberland Gap had it all. “Multiple comorbidities” is what doctors called it. Cardiologist, Dr. Clint Doiron, sent the long-time Baptist deacon to Parkwest Medical Center where the doctor hoped his patient could qualify for a much-needed life-saving procedure known as transcatheter aortic valve replacement (or TAVR).
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