When Keyanna Mincey stepped into the Steinbrenner Emergency/Trauma Center at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital for her first day of work as a Nurse Tech she felt immediately at home. As a former EMT, Keyanna was used to hectic days filled with all different kinds of trauma, so the buzz of the ER was familiar to…
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According to the American Cancer Society, about 10,500 children in the United States under the age of 15 will be diagnosed with cancer in 2021 – and childhood cancer rates have been rising slightly for the past few decades. The good news is because of advancements in treatment, 84% of children with cancer now survive 5…
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When Fintech employee Jolene LaBarbera was tapped to be part of the company’s newly created community outreach team, she couldn’t wait to get started on their first project: an employee giving initiative benefitting St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital. “Knowing we would be helping the children’s hospital was very personal to me, because last spring, that’s exactly…
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For most of us, the simple act of breathing is something we take for granted. But with lung and bronchus cancers on the rise – according to the CDC they are the number one rate of cancer death in the US – St. Joseph’s Hospital is seeing more and more patients whose lung disease threatens…
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Physicians at St. Joseph’s Hospital have successfully used the Shockwave Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL), an innovative catheter that uses sonic pressure waves to break up calcium deposits in coronary arteries. Dr. Alok Singh and Dr. Jesal Popat completed a successful procedure with the technology earlier this month. As the leading cause of death in the United States,…
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One year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic St. Joseph’s Hospital nurse Carly Territo has two words for her community, her hospital, and most importantly, her coworkers: THANK YOU! That’s because during one of the most difficult times of her nursing career, what kept her moving forward was the encouragement and support of those…
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What more can we do? Each and every day the medical and administrative staff of St. Joseph’s Hospitals ask this simple question for the thousands of community members who come to us for help, because even under the most trying of circumstances, we have never wavered in our commitment to providing all of our patients…
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St. Joseph’s Hospital-North recently added state-of-the-art 3-D technology to its breast imaging services generously funded through St. Joseph’s Hospitals Foundation.
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Andrew Goldstein spent a lot of time with his son Collin at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital while he underwent treatment, and he knows first-hand that the power of generosity from others can lighten a difficult experience.
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