‘Tick’ tock: Lyme disease grows as threat here - Vero News
You can’t hide from Lyme disease in Florida anymore. While most people think of the disease in connection with the northeast, Dr. Aisha Thomas-St. Cyr at Sebastian Infectious Disease Care and Steward Health says the number of cases of this tick-borne illness are likely to double in the Sunshine State this year.
Holy Family Hospital Welcomes Boston Interventional Pulmonologist to the Medical Staff
![Danai Khemasuwan, MD](/sites/default/files/field/image/D.Khemasuwan%20social%20media.jpg)
Fluent in English and Thai, Dr. Khemasuwan, is now seeing patients on Wednesdays in The Center for Advanced Thoracic and Pulmonary Care on Holy Family Hospital’s Methuen campus.
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Earns 2018 Get With the Guidelines® – Gold Plus Performance Achievement and Target HF: Honor Roll Recognitions for Heart Failure
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3rd Year in a Row St. Elizabeth’s Earns this Recognition
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Earns Certificate of Excellence from the Perinatal-Neonatal Quality Improvement Network of Massachusetts
![St. Elizabeth’s Maternal Child Health Team (L to R): Mary Turowski, Catherine Everett, Hope Kellman, Chery Cirillo, Terry O’Connor, Cathleen Dehn, Mary Staude, Jen Gregoire. Not pictured: Kerry Flaherty, Christine Connolly, and Brett Jean.](/sites/default/files/field/image/Teamaward.jpg)
Recognition reflects work done to improve the care of substance exposed newborns and their families
After they saved his life, Brockton father went on the run
![Brian Clay, 42, who grew up in Brockton and North Attleboro, marked the one-year anniversary of a life-saving diagnosis on Thursday by running the route of his Medflight trip from Good Samaritan Medical Center to Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Clay was diagnosed with an acute aortic dissection on June 14, 2017, after going to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton.](/sites/default/files/field/image/custom-Custom_Size___GSMC20180614-0092.jpg)
By Marc Larocque Enterprise Staff Writer Posted Jun 14, 2018 at 2:45 PM Updated Jun 14, 2018 at 9:56 PM
An emergency open-heart surgery floored Brian Clay and his family one year ago, when he was diagnosed with a tear to his aorta, and he was rushed from Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton to Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
But now the 42-year-old, who grew up in Brockton and North Attleboro, is back up and running.
Easton firefighters help deliver baby Wednesday morning outside home on Victory Lane
By Joe Pelletier / The Enterprise / Posted May 16, 2018 at 7:45 PM
It was a birthday blessing that firefighter Tom Baker and one Easton family won’t soon forget.
Baker, celebrating his 35th birthday, helped deliver a baby girl Wednesday morning in the back of an Easton ambulance outside of a home on Victory Lane.
It was an exhilarating, almost unbelievable morning for the parents, Eric and Carly Shabshelowitz, who gave all thanks to Baker and the firefighters who helped deliver their newborn in, well, unusual circumstances.
EMS Week (May 20-26)
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I would like to invite the residents of the greater Brockton area to join me in thanking the health care heroes in our community as we celebrate not only Nurses Week and Hospital Week, but also National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week this May.
Good Samaritan Medical Center Continues 50th Anniversary Celebration
![Pictured: Microbiologist Christine Gainey, has been a fixture at Good Samaritan Medical Center’s medical laboratory for the past 50 years.](/sites/default/files/field/image/custom-Custom_Size___Gainey%2C%20Christine.jpg)
By Tom Relihan, The Enterprise Posted Apr 24, 2018 at 5:47 PM Updated Apr 24, 2018 at 10:40 PM
Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital Reaccredited by CARF
Steward Health Care is proud to announce that Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital in Howland has been reaccredited for a period of three years by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) for its inpatient rehabilitation programs – hospital (adults) and comprehensive vocational evaluation services programs.