Tag: local updates
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Neurosurgeons break from Memorial; head trauma cases head to Penrose
Adults who suffer serious head injuries are no longer being treated at Memorial Health System because its neurosurgeons ended their contract in a dispute with administrators. Memorial, whose downtown emergency department is the busiest in the state, is scrambling to restore its ability to accept head-trauma patients. For now, though, emergency crews are instructed to…
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Nighttime dialysis improves lives of some kidney patients
For nearly four years, Patty Yeager’s life consisted primarily of three things: dialysis, sleep and TV. Like thousands of others with kidney failure, the 57-year-old woman spent about three hours a day, three days a week on a machine having her blood filtered. When she wasn’t at the dialysis center, she was too tired to…
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Springs nurse tapped to head national association
Mary Enzman Hines, a Colorado Springs nurse and professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, has been chosen president of the American Holistic Nurses Association. Enzman chairs the Graduate Nursing Department at UCCS’s Beth El College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She has served as education coordinator for the AHNA and associate editor…
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Young men boost requests for medical marijuana; state’s top doc wonders why
Young men, statistically speaking, are a healthy bunch. Which has state health officials wondering: Why are so many of them signing up for medical marijuana? The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which oversees the state’s medical marijuana registry, reported Thursday that it has been flooded with new applications in the last year —…
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Report: Number of Colorado kids living in poverty soars
The number of Colorado children living in poverty increased by more than 88,000, or 85 percent, between 2000 and 2007, according to the annual Kids Count report released Tuesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private charity for disadvantaged children. This increase, which left the state with almost 192,000 children living below the federal…
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Springs doctor’s sentencing postponed in Medicare fraud case
A Colorado Springs physician is scheduled to be sentenced in November for her role in a Medicare fraud scheme that authorities say bilked taxpayers out of $12 million. Dr. Aginah M. DeBerry, of Four Points Family Medical Center on East Pikes Peak Avenue, was among 18 people indicted by a federal grand jury in February…
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Rare ailment sidelines ’09 Rampart HS grad
A Colorado Springs teenager just a few weeks away from starting college has had his plans put on hold by a disease believed to afflict just one in a million people. Seventeen-year-old Devon Aimes, a 2009 Rampart High School graduate, is in a medically induced coma at Memorial Hospital for Children. He is expected to…
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New program to address Latino health problems
Colorado’s Latino population is disproportionately affected by several major health problems, topping the charts for diabetes deaths, motor vehicle deaths, childhood obesity and cervical cancer cases, according to a report released Wednesday by state health officials. Despite the grim statistics, however, there is some good news: A local program is launching to combat part of…
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Ovarian cancer foundation hosts run/walk fundraiser
The Sue DiNapoli Ovarian Cancer Foundation, a local nonprofit, is holding a 5k run and 3k walk fundraiser August 8. The event, in America the Beautiful Park in downtown Colorado Springs, begins at 7:30 a.m. Rigstration is $22 in advance (through Active.com) or $25 the day of the event. Registrants who sign up by July…
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Springs patient anxious, angry about possible Hep-C exposure
Judith Edwards knows that fentanyl was prescribed for her June 10 operation at Audubon Surgery Center. She knows that Kristen Diane Parker, a surgical technician accused of stealing the drug and replacing it with dirty needles full of saline, was working that day. What she doesn’t know is whether those two facts mean she has…