Your Healthy Family: Photopheresis suite donated to UCHealth Memorial can treat a variety of conditions
If you think of dialysis as the process of cleaning someoneâs blood, who has kidney disease, apheresis is a more targeted method of replacing a specific component of someoneâs blood, depending on their condition.
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COLORADO SPRINGS â I recently introduced you to Donna Bryant, who lives in Falcon and is living an extraordinarily improved life, because of a new treatment suite at UCHealth Memorial Hospital North.
Donna has an autoimmune neuromuscular disease called myasthenia gravis and without regular treatment, her life comes to a halt, as she shared with us. Donna was getting treated in metro Denver until a suite opened in southern Colorado at Memorial. (SEE STORY BELOW)
Your Healthy Family: Anonymous donation means patients needing critical treatment can get care in Colorado Springs
Donna says, âit has made a significant difference in many ways.â She is spending less time in her wheel chair, her energy is up and she hasnât had to be admitted to the hospital to have treatment after falling into crisis because her symptoms had grown out of control.
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COLORADO SPRINGS â Donna Bryant lives in Falcon and used to have to travel to the VA hospital in metro Denver to get needed plasma exchange treatments for her myasthenia gravis, a debilitating nueromuscular disease.
Your Healthy Family: Springs woman improving in fight with debilitating neuromuscular disease
Donna explains when she was first diagnosed, âIt was very awkward and unusual. I would get fatigued in the most unusual ways. My coworkers and everyone thought I was drinking, or using drugs.
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COLORADO SPRINGS â There s a new medical space in Colorado Springs that was gifted to UCHealth Memorial by an anonymous donor that is vastly improving the quality of life of patients by making critical treatments available locally, saving them the trip to Denver.
Itâs an Apheresis Suite, and is located in the new infusion center at UCHealth Memorial North Hospital in Colorado Springs. Apheresis is basically a process of collecting someoneâs blood, separating it into itâs base components, and then removing parts of the blood that may contain disease, or disease-provoking elements and then replacing it.
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VINCENNES, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) In light of Knox County entering the Red Zone on
Friday, Good Samaritan Hospital, has once again updated visitor restrictions based on local and national COVID-19 data. These new guidelines are for both inpatient and outpatient areas in the hospital, and physician practices.
Beginning on Monday, Dec. 21, the following visitation guidelines will be in place:
OB patients can have one designated visitor that is 16 years or older during the patient’s entire stay.
Pediatric patients may have two visitors 24/7. Only parents and guardians are encouraged, but support persons are allowed when parents/guardians are absent.