Surviving Heart Surgery—From an Endovascular Surgeon’s to a Patient’s Perspective
By James B. Williams, M.D. As many of you know, due to postponed peripheral vascular interventions and visits in our office-based vascular interventional center, I have recently transitioned from interventional surgeon to patient. I want you all to know I GET IT! How one’s perspective changes… Trained initially as a heart surgeon, for years I […]
Serving People With Cystic Fibrosis
Submitted by Rachel Rockhold, The Legacy Foundation The Colton Underwood Legacy Foundation is a non-profit organization committed to advancing the quality of life for people living with cystic fibrosis (CF). The charity was founded in honor of Harper Hawksworth, a Washington resident, who was diagnosed at birth with CF. Her cousin, Colton Underwood, former NFL […]
We’re All About Helping People
Many people associate home health with hospice, or assume that we are only here for urgent needs such as therapy or wound care after returning home from the hospital. The truth is that Medicare and many other private insurances cover our services for preventative therapy—fall risk, for example. We also offer teaching on new diagnoses […]
Staying Positive
By Alexander Germanis The poet Walt Whitman wrote, “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” Although it is sage advice, it might seem very difficult advice to follow when there does not seem to be any sunshine toward which to turn. But one of the truly wonderful things about humanity […]
Celebrating Serving the Bleeding & Clotting Community for 10 Years
March is Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month, and the team at the Bleeding & Clotting Disorders Institute are our local experts in caring for bleeding and blood clotting disorders. This April marks 10 years of BCDI serving patients throughout the state of Illinois and beyond. A bleeding disorder is a condition that affects the way your […]
Every One of Us Deserves a Decent and Affordable Place to Call Home
Submitted by Habitat for Humanity—Greater Peoria Area More than 18 million households—1 in 6—are paying more than half of their income on housing and are considered severely cost-burdened, as of 2019. The largest share of these households includes 9.5 million renters earning less than $30,000 per year and 5.4 million homeowners earning less than $30,000. […]
Changing Your Habits for Better Health
Are you thinking about being more active? Have you been trying to cut back on less healthy foods? Are you starting to eat better and move more but having a hard time sticking with these changes? Old habits die hard. Changing your habits is a process that involves several stages. Sometimes it takes a while […]
A Time of Giving
By Alexander Germanis Although the date on the calendar remains in the same spot, Christmas seems to come earlier each year. But as the years mount, we tend to focus more and more on the true meaning of Christmas and find our joy in those things that matter most. At Apostolic Christian Home of Eureka, […]
Meet the Peoria Entrepreneurs Who are Bringing a More Cost-Effective Way to Access Healthcare Locally
Meet free market warriors Colleen Ingraham and Dr. Richard Kube. These two individuals have been working together for several years on various projects, many of which involve medical services. When they met in 2012, Dr. Kube, Founder of Prairie Spine & Pain Institute, was needing someone to assist in accounting and bookkeeping at his medical […]
Joseph Health Group—A Non-Surgical Approach to ending Joint Pain
It’s an exciting time to have knee pain—or shoulder pain, or hip pain for that matter. Well, maybe not exciting, but there are now more appealing options for joint pain sufferers than ever before. There is, however, excitement at the Joseph Health Group. They’re positioned at the forefront of a breakthrough surgical alternative called Regenerative […]