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How Healthy is Your Heart?
February 01, 2022Do you know how healthy your heart is? This American Heart Month, refresh yourself on a few key indicators that can give insight into your heart’s current health state and point to any specific steps you may need to take for its care.
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Haywood Regional Medical Center Joins Campaign to Register Organ, Eye and Tissue Donors
January 31, 2022Haywood Regional Medical Center (HRMC) has joined other area hospitals, healthcare organizations, and LifeShare Carolinas to create a donation-friendly community through the Workplace Partnership for Life Hospital Campaign for organ donation.
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Haywood Regional Medical Center Welcomes First Baby of 2022
January 06, 2022Haywood Regional Medical Center is ringing in 2022 with the year’s first #HayBaby! Weighing 8 pounds and 7 ounces and measuring 21 inches, Maxwell was born, Tuesday, Jan. 4.
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Ashley Pennington-Tripp, MSN, CNM, Joins Haywood Regional Medical Center
January 03, 2022Haywood Regional Medical Center (HRMC) welcomes Ashley Pennington-Tripp, MSN, CNM to its staff. She will be offering family nurse midwife care to patients throughout Haywood County and beyond. Her specialties include: general gynecological care, obstetrical care, postpartum care, childbirth, contraceptive counseling, pregnancy, menopause management, and more.
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Celebrating the Holidays Safely
December 14, 2021And this holiday season is looking to be a brighter one than last year. In terms of the pandemic, we are in a much better place this year than we were in 2020. Thanks in large part to COVID-19 vaccines, many of us are feeling safer and more confident and comfortable with gathering again this year and enjoying some of the time-honored traditions we missed last year.
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Haywood Regional Medical Center Names Megan Gillespie, RN, and Shelly Sneed, RN, as Recipients of The DAISY Award
December 06, 2021– Haywood Regional Medical Center (HRMC) recently presented The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses ® for November and December. The DAISY Award recipients for this round of nominations is Megan Gillespie, RN Care Coordinator, and Shelly Sneed, Staff RN.
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Haywood Regional Medical Center Announces November and December Sunshine Award Winners
December 06, 2021Haywood Regional Medical Center’s (HRMC) Sunshine Award is a recognition program for hospital employees who provide non-nursing ancillary care, support services personnel, and volunteers. We are pleased to announce our November winner, Joey Lowe, in Security and December winner Felicia Royster, Patient Care Partner (PCP).
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Getting the Most Out of Your Health Insurance
November 19, 2021Have you been putting off your annual doctor’s visit? Or perhaps even a needed screening or procedure? If you’ve been putting off care – whether it’s a recommended surgery, screening or simply your annual check-up – now’s the time to do it. Your health means everything.
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Haywood Regional Medical Center Announces teleNeurology and telePsychiatry Services
November 18, 2021Haywood Regional Medical Center (HRMC) is now offering teleNeurology and telepsychiatry services in partnership with SOC Telemed. The partnership enables HRMC to access time-sensitive neurological and acute psychiatric expertise whenever and wherever it is needed.
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Dr. Elena Messina Joins Haywood Regional Medical Center
November 15, 2021Haywood Regional Medical Center (HRMC) welcomes Elena Messina, MD, to its staff. Dr. Messina will be offering family medicine care to patients throughout Haywood County and beyond. Her specialties include: annual, school and sports physicals, hypertension, chronic and acute illnesses, immunizations and vaccines, minor conditions and injuries, diabetes, well woman care, and preventative and mental health.
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Have You Checked Your Blood Sugar Recently?
November 10, 2021Our blood sugar level is one of those individual health numbers that it’s important for us to know when it comes to staying on top of our health. It measures the amount of sugar, or glucose, present in our blood at any given time. Why is this such an important fact to know? Because too little sugar in our blood can lead to cognitive difficulties and too much can cause unwanted health complications and be a sign of an underlying condition like diabetes.
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Diabetes Awareness Month: Kelby's Story
November 05, 2021“Since COVID started, all I could look forward to was eating. When I went and got my bloodwork done, it was up to a 7.1 A1C. I panicked,” Kelby Noland shares. “The doctor gave me advice and I signed up for diabetes classes at the Fitness Center.”
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Dr. Brian Haycook Joins Haywood Regional Medical Center
November 04, 2021Haywood Regional Medical Center (HRMC) welcomes Brian Haycook, MD, to its staff. Dr. Haycook will be offering spine care to patients throughout Haywood County and beyond. His specialties include: treatment of spinal disorders, minimally invasive spine surgery for lumbar fusion and disc herniations, cervical disc replacement surgery, fractures of the spine, sacroiliac joint fusion surgery, and adult reconstructive surgery.
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A Lung Scan Can Be a Lifesaver
November 03, 2021If you are a smoker or a former smoker, and between the ages of 55 and 77, you may qualify or be eligible for a lung cancer screening exam. And it’s an exam that could be a lifesaver.
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Dr. Mark Pankonin Joins Haywood Regional Medical Center
November 02, 2021Haywood Regional Medical Center (HRMC) welcomes Mark Pankonin, MD, PhD, to its staff. Dr. Pankonin will be offering services in gastroenterology to patients throughout Haywood County and beyond.
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Haywood Regional Medical Center Announces October Sunshine Award Winners
October 22, 2021We are pleased to announce two Sunshine Award winners for this month: Jeff Heatherly in Engineering and Dina Holt, CNA.
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Haywood Regional Medical Center Awards $4,000 in Scholarships to Local Students
October 18, 2021Haywood Regional Medical Center (HRMC) presented four scholarships to students at the County Clash football game Friday, October 15. The scholarships of $1,000 each are presented to students with the top GPAs in band and football at Pisgah and Tuscola High Schools.
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Haywood Regional Medical Center Now Offering Robotic-Assisted Knee Replacement Surgery
October 13, 2021Orthopedic surgeons at Haywood Regional Medical Center (HRMC) now have a helping hand for knee replacement surgery.
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Honoring Physician Assistants for National PA Week
October 06, 2021National Physician Assistants (PA) Week takes place each year from Oct. 6–12 to celebrate the profession and its contributions to the nation’s health. Haywood Regional Medical Center is proud to honor our Physician Assistants (PA) in honor of PA Week and recognize their positive impact on patient outcomes.
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Your Health Means Everything – Protect It by Getting Vaccinated for Flu Season
October 05, 2021At Haywood Regional Medical Center, one of the essential ways we’re Making Communities Healthier is making sure that our neighbors understand how to fight preventable diseases like the flu. As we have all learned during this time, our health means everything and it has never been more important to protect it.
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