Category Archives: DMH News
Memorial Medical Center Foundation Donates Grants to 32 Emergency Medical Service Agencies
February 17, 2021 - 32 emergency medical service agencies in nine counties will receive more than $17,000 in grant money from the Memorial Medical Center Foundation to purchase instructional materials...
Feb 17, 2021
Frenzel named DMH Colleague of the Month
February 17, 2021 - Jeff Frenzel, patient transporter, is the Decatur Memorial Hospital Colleague of the Month for January. Frenzel personifies Memorial Health System values of safety and integrity as...
Feb 17, 2021
Memorial Medical Foundation Grants Available for Health Related Projects
February 12, 2021 - After deferring the program in 2020, the Memorial Medical Center Foundation will resume its annual board-directed grant cycle. The Memorial Medical Center Foundation awards grants ...
Feb 12, 2021
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)