HealthNews from Lakewood Ranch Medical Center
Summer 2007

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Women's Center
Earns High Marks for Patient Safety
New Hip Replacement Technique Means
Less Pain, Quicker Recoveries
LWRMC Offers
Advanced Stroke Prevention Treatment
There's a Doctor
in the House
Calendar of Community Health Events
Need a Doctor?
Past Issues

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Lynn Mergen, CEO, and Jeffrey Wasserman, DO, cut the ribbon at the opening of the Breast Health Center.
New Hip: Less Pain, Quicker Recovery

Traditional hip replacement surgery typically requires surgeons to make large incisions and to cut and stretch many of the tendons and muscles that surround the hip. It is common for patients to experience significant pain and to spend months recovering.

Fortunately, there's a new option available at Lakewood Ranch Medical Center (LWRMC) that is much easier on patients. This new technique allows surgeons to perform less invasive hip replacement procedures.

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Women's Center Wins Safety Recognition

The survey results are good news for the community because they show that patients can be confident that they'll receive high-quality and safe care at the Center.
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Reducing the
Risk for Stroke

Some local residents with blockages in the carotid arteries -- the vessels that supply blood to the brain -- are now undergoing minimally invasive carotid stenting procedures at Lakewood Ranch Medical Center (LWRMC) to help reduce their risk for stroke.
There's a Doctor in the House

Thanks to an important new program, many patients hospitalized at Lakewood Ranch Medical Center (LWRMC) receive care from a relatively new type of physician specialist, called a hospitalist.

Calendar of Community
Health Events

ALS Association Resource Group, Diabetes Self-Management Education, Weight Watchers and more!

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HealthNews from Lakewood Ranch Medical Center