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Read Time: Five Minutes On March 23, 2020, the Missouri State Public Health Laboratory notified Phelps Health of its first confirmed case of COVID-19. That case was one of 3,804 positive COVID-19 cases reported by Phelps Health between last March and March 1, 2021. As Missouri and local communities mark the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic this month, three ...

Read Time: 20 Minutes Paige Heitman recently sat down on The Scope podcast with Phelps Health Pharmacist Jason Medows to discuss the unique physical and mental health needs of people living in rural communities. Jason had a lot to say about how we are all responsible to help our neighbors and friends to get healthy and stay healthy. Paige Heitman ...

Read Time: Two Minutes Getting your COVID-19 vaccine is recommended to help you stay healthy. So are mammograms, which are X-rays that doctors use to look for signs of breast cancer. However, if you are scheduled to have a mammogram shortly after receiving the COVID-19 shot, you may want to consider rescheduling one of your appointments. Some patients have reported ...

Read Time: Two Minutes Access to healthcare is not only important for when you are sick with a cold or an ear infection, but having a primary care provider close to home also can help you with chronic conditions, such as diabetes or high cholesterol. “In primary care, we can help people gain control over their blood pressure, diabetes, thyroid ...

Read Time: Two Minutes Did you know? About one in 10 people will likely get a kidney stone in their lifetime. Kidney stones are hard deposits of minerals and salts that can form in your kidneys. They can travel through the ureter, the tube between your kidney and bladder. If a kidney stone reaches your bladder, you can usually pass ...

Read Time: Two Minutes Did you know that people who smoke cigarettes are at a higher risk to get bladder cancer? According to the American Cancer Society, smokers are nearly three times as likely to get bladder cancer as non-smokers. In fact, smoking causes about half of all cases of bladder cancer in men and women. The risk is greater ...

Read Time: One Minute Many times, men are hesitant to go to the doctor. In honor of Men’s Health Month in June, we can encourage all of the men in our lives to establish healthy habits. The first steps are making sure they see a doctor when they feel unwell and go in for a yearly checkup. Meet Jack. He ...

James Bass, MD, a family medicine physician with the Phelps Health Medical Group, remembers as a young boy going to his father’s office. His father, Billy Jack Bass, MD, was a general practitioner in Salem, and Dr. James Bass credits his dad as to how he first became interested in healthcare and medicine. “I remember him evaluating and treating patients,” ...

Phelps Health has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate healthcare according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. Phelps Health earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis ...

For patients who speak or prefer a language other than English, Phelps Health has free audio and video remote interpreter services readily available to make sure clear communication occurs between these patients and their care teams. Phelps Health is partnering with LanguageLine Solutions to provide video remote interpreter services for patients who speak foreign languages or patients who have hearing ...