Chief Nursing Officer Lisa Mestas, neonatal nurse practitioner Lisa Gore, and retired nurse Bobbie Holt-Ragler will be recipients of Community Awards from the USA College of Nursing.
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The University of South Alabama won Best Local College while USA Health was voted Best Local Company to Work for (Over 50 Employees) in the 2024 Lagniappe readers’ choice contest.
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New OB-GYN nurse practitioner, Taria Battle, C.R.N.P., hopes to make education the foundation of her patient interactions.
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As restrictions are lifted, many people may feel uncomfortable gathering with family and friends. Susan Cheatham, SLPC, director of behavioral health in the Department of Family Medicine, gives tips and recommendations to ease back into socializing.
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Carey Johnson and Angela Mosley-Johnson, both students at the USA College of Medicine, married in 2018. Carey is completing his first year of medical school, and Angela graduates with her medical degree this week.
During their commencement ceremony, graduate students in basic medical sciences receive doctoral degrees and hoods as they embark on the next stage of their careers.
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USA Health is now offering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to those who seek care in the emergency department at University Hospital and those who are hospitalized there.
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A casserole dinner is being sent home with patients who deliver at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital.
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Nathan Polite, D.O., F.A.C.S., F.A.C.O.S., joins the Level I trauma team at the Fanny Meisler Trauma Center at USA Health University Hospital.
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Allen Broome, Pharm.D., the director of health system pharmacy at USA Health, reflects on the Pharmacy Residency Program's first-year achievements.
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Rebecca Borneman, a fourth-year medical student at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, has won three awards for research on an anti-cancer compound at the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute.
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USA Health University Hospital now is equipped with the LUCAS Chest Compression System, a battery-powered device that performs automated chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
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The three-year fellowship, one of 61 in the United States, significantly will improve access to gynecologic cancer care for women in Alabama.