Category Archives: DMH News
Surgeon Performs 1,000th Robot-Assisted Surgery at DMH
February 12, 2021 - When Dr. Edmund Raycraft performs knee or hip replacement surgery at Decatur Memorial Hospital, he has a little help from a special assistant: a robot named Mako. Raycraft, of DMH ...
Feb 12, 2021
Applications for 2021 Memorial Medical Center Healthcare Career Grants Available
February 11, 2021 - Applications are now available for the 2021 Memorial Medical Center Foundation Healthcare Career Education Grants. Grants are awarded to students pursuing careers crucial to presen...
Feb 11, 2021
Influenza Cases Drop Dramatically
February 11, 2021 - Memorial Health System hospitals are seeing a dramatic decrease this year in the number of influenza cases, thanks in part to precautions being taken to slow the spread of COVID-19...
Feb 11, 2021
EDITORIAL: Local Vaccine Process Explained
January 29, 2021 - I want to help to explain the local process of COVID vaccine distribution. The only thing I ask is that you, dear reader, use these facts to help spread the information and educate ...
Jan 29, 2021
Crossing Healthcare and DMH To Combine COVID Vaccine Allocation To Administer 1000 Vaccines Per Week
January 28, 2021 - Crossing Healthcare and Decatur Memorial Hospital announced today that they will combine both organizations' allocations of COVID-19 vaccine to support public clinics beginning Mond...
Jan 28, 2021
Memorial Behavioral Health ‘Living Room’ Offers Fast Access to Mental Health Support
January 26, 2021 - In order to help reduce the pressure on local hospital emergency departments, Memorial Behavioral Health has opened a center where adults experiencing emotional distress can go to f...
Jan 26, 2021
Memorial Health System Offers Infusion Treatment to Help Patients with Mild to Moderate COVID-19 Symptoms
January 21, 2021-Tim Yarnik, his wife and daughter were on their way to an outing in St. Louis and planned to visit his dad, who lives in Staunton, on the way there. His dad, Art, who's 87 years old a...
Jan 21, 2021 Art Yarnik relaxes in his Staunton home. He was one of 365 people who have already received an infusion therapy for patients with mild or moderate COVID-19 symptoms. Memorial Health System offers the outpatient procedure to help keep COVID-19 patients from facing hospitalization. (Photo: Kara Slating / Memorial Health System)
Memorial Health Systems Easing Certain Visitor Restrictions
January 19, 2021 - As the number of COVID-19 inpatients decreases and the state lifts mitigation efforts in Central Illinois, Memorial Health Systems is easing some of its visitor restrictions at its ...
Jan 19, 2021
First Baby Born at DMH in 2021
January 4, 2020 -DMH welcomed it's first baby of 2021 on New Years Day. Carson and Rosario Hiser, of Bethany, welcomed the first baby born at Decatur Memorial Hospital of the New Year. Their baby boy ...
Jan 04, 2021
Nurse Named DMH Colleague of the Year
January 3, 2021 -Dimitra Woods, a registered nurse in the Decatur Memorial Hospital intensive care unit, is the hospital's Colleague of the Year. Woods personifies Memorial Health System values as she...
Jan 04, 2021