Tag: Health

EDINBURG — When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin went down with cardiac arrest during a Monday Night Football game on Jan. 2, all eyes were on the Bills' athletic trainers.

DHR Health celebrated Wednesday as it became the only healthcare facility in Texas, and fifth in the nation, to be named a “Center of Excellence” for its wearable and robotic exoskeleton.

One day in 2019, as Kimberly Davis and her husband drove by South Texas Health System Children’s in Edinburg, he said casually but with confidence, “There’s your future job right there.”

The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine completed last month the final stage of accreditation required by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, a step the institution says paves the way for further growth of the institution.

Two of six graduates from South Texas Health System's residency program represent some semblance of hope for addressing a lack of medical professionals in the Rio Grande Valley as healthcare providers continue to grapple with a doctor and nursing shortage that's impacting the entire nation.

Rosalinda Jimenez was inspired to pursue a career that deals with mental health because of her father, who no one knew “was depressed until he mentioned it,” she said. Recollections of how her father, Isabel Jimenez, a World War II veteran, would “suffer in silence” and only spoke of his experience late in his life helped her realize the toll that war took on his mental health, and that there are many like him who still struggle.

Healthcare and emergency agencies in the Hidalgo County area continue warning residents that as temperatures rise to nearly unbearable conditions, so do the risks of heat-related illness and even death if the proper precautions aren’t taken.

An unidentified Texas resident has been diagnosed with malaria after working outside in Cameron County, which is the first time a locally acquired case has happened in the state in nearly 30 years.

EDINBURG — A new $6 million investment at South Texas Health System Edinburg is aiming to prevent lower limb amputations among residents with cardiac or diabetic conditions, an all-too familiar occurrence in the Rio Grande Valley.

It's no secret that there is often more work than hands at healthcare facilities across the nation, which the COVID-19 pandemic helped to further exploit in 2020, but nowhere was this more apparent at the time than in the nursing field.