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Making a Difference
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news magazine featuring the people of UK HealthCare
Making a Difference, Summer 2008 (View PDF, 1.4 Mb)
- Back on his feet. In a matter of hours, a young husband and father goes from
healthy to paralyzed and relies on UK specialists for hope.
- Fighting heart failure. Given hope and the promise of continuing medical advances, a heart failure patient beats the odds and thrives.
- Speaking of surgery. Delicate microvascular surgery saves an alum’s ability to speak and gives him more reason to cheer for UK than ever before.
- Faces behind the voices. UK HealthCare employees share their stories and insights in recorded messages now heard by callers placed on hold.
Making a Difference, Summer 2007 (View PDF, 1.2 Mb)
- Returning a boy's smile. The benefits of being a regional Level I trauma center are further demonstrated as pediatric dentists save a young man's teeth.
- Looking after the family. When a colleague's husband was stricken with terminal cancer, two UK nurses rallied co-workers and took care of the family as if it were their own.
- Hip replacement. A new type of hip replacement combined with unique expertise enables a London police officer to return to the force.
Making a Difference, Summer 2006 (View PDF, 1.3 Mb)
- Transplanted friendship. Amelia Brown was a homecoming queen in the prime of her life, but her liver was failing from a mysterious illness. UK HealthCare solved the mystery, found her a new liver and made friends for life.
- ALS can’t silence her. While Mary Lou Smith has lost use of her vocal cords, she hasn’t lost hope. In an article she pens herself, she talks about how Dr. Edward Kasarskis and his team put her at ease.
- The Markey Cancer Center. With its friendly feel and attentive service, it feels almost like a comfortable neighborhood bar. And when myeloma patient Kelly Colson visits, he sees a glass that’s more than half-full.
- Cystic fibrosis: An adult disease now. Now 48, Anne McMahan has surpassed the average life expectancy for a person living with cystic fibrosis. Learn how UK HealthCare’s staff helped her do it.
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