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Bothwell Regional Health Center to offer free Stop the Bleed class
Bothwell Regional Health Center will offer a Stop the Bleed class free to the community on Friday, Oct. 10. The goal of STOP THE BLEED® is to train and equip bystanders to use medically proven bleeding control practices to stop severe blood loss. The person next to a bleeding victim may very well be the…
Read MoreBothwell Foundation to host forum on sustaining local health care
The Bothwell Foundation will host Bothwell & the Bottom Line: What It Takes to Keep Care Local, a free forum for community members to learn about the financial landscape at Bothwell Regional Health Center and what it takes to maintain access to local health care. The event will take place at 5:30 pm Wednesday, Oct.…
Read MoreGrateful Sedalia woman thanks Bothwell’s emergency team for life-saving care
A Sedalia woman recently returned to Bothwell Regional Health Center’s Emergency Department (ED) with a bouquet of flowers and a grateful heart for the nurse she says helped save her husband’s life. Joni Hughes’ husband, Steve, came to the ED late on a Saturday night with heart issues and was stabilized and transferred to another…
Read MoreBothwell Foundation to offer support seminar for caregivers Sept. 23
The Bothwell Foundation will host Prepared to Care: Support & Resources for Caregivers, a free seminar designed to assist individuals who are currently caring for a loved one or preparing to take on a caregiving role. The event will take place at 5:30 pm Tuesday, Sept. 23 in Community Room C at the Heckart Community…
Read MoreGrief support group beginning Sept. 23 offers guidance for navigating loss
Bothwell Regional Health Center is offering an eight-week grief support group beginning Sept. 23 to help people process loss in a welcoming and compassionate setting. The group meets Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9 pm at Bothwell Hospital and is facilitated by Chaplain Rob Ayers, a certified grief recovery specialist. Grief can be a difficult and…
Read MoreMergen receives prestigious nursing award
Bothwell Regional Health Center recently presented its latest DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses to Mattie Mergen. The DAISY Award is for patients and their families to nominate nurses who give outstanding, compassionate and skillful care. Mergen is a Registered Nurse (RN) in the hospital’s Critical Care Unit (CCU); she was nominated by Ramona Mefford, a…
Read MoreLearn life-saving skills in a day; next CPR/AED class Sept. 20
Bothwell Regional Health Center will host Community CPR/AED and First Aid courses on Saturday, Sept. 20 at the Bothwell Education Center, located at 600 E. 14th St. The CPR/AED session runs from 8 am to 12:30 pm and covers how to administer CPR to adults, children and infants, as well as how to use an…
Read MoreBothwell and SFCC partner to grow nursing workforce
Bothwell Regional Health Center and State Fair Community College (SFCC) are collaborating on a program to help address the region’s nursing shortage by providing a tuition-paid path for students pursuing a Practical Nursing (PN) degree or Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) at SFCC while working at Bothwell. Through the partnership, Bothwell covers the cost of…
Read MoreFamily medicine physician joins Bothwell Family Medicine Associates
Abrea Cridlebaugh, MD, a family medicine physician, has joined Bothwell Family Medicine Associates and is now seeing patients of all ages. Cridlebaugh earned her medical degree and completed her family and community medicine residency at the University of Missouri in Columbia. She was part of the Rural Track Pipeline Program and received multiple awards for…
Read MoreBothwell Auxiliary awards six nursing scholarships
The Bothwell Auxiliary recently awarded six $2,500 scholarships to area nursing students. Scholarships were awarded to Lexi Anderson, Kaitlyn O’Dell, Laura Granados, Sara McLemore, Mattie Mergen and Amber Fillicetti. Five of the six recipients work at Bothwell Regional Health Center. Anderson is a Nurse Intern in Women’s Health and Newborn Care, and O’Dell is a…
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