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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 ...

Clay Howlett was a junior in high school when he was diagnosed with diabetes. He felt dehydrated and had lost weight, about 25 pounds. Initially, Clay went to his family doctor and then to a hospital, where he was given his first dose of insulin. “I was told I couldn’t have any sugar,” Clay recalls. “I remember one time during ...

Nursing was not always the first career choice for Amy Ross, a nursing supervisor at Phelps Health. She originally wanted to be a dietitian. Her college roommate was studying nursing, and when Ross learned of all the things her roommate was doing as a nurse, Ross decided to switch her major. “I’m so glad I did,” says Ross, who has ...

The Phelps Health Delbert Day Cancer Institute has joined the Siteman Cancer Network to collaborate on efforts to reduce the impact of cancer in south-central Missouri through research, treatment and prevention. The network is affiliated with Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Together, the institutions will provide access to cancer prevention ...

Read Time: Three Minutes You just weren’t feeling like yourself. Exhaustion may have been at an all-time high, or maybe you were getting up multiple times during the night to use the bathroom. Regardless of what prompted the conversation with your doctor or provider, you likely weren’t expecting to be diagnosed with diabetes. You might feel overwhelmed and not know ...

Jodie Donati, a lifelong resident of the St. James/Rosati area, has lived the vast majority of her life without any heart or lung problems. With the exception of an incident when she experienced shortness of breath early last year, Donati, now 88 years old, has led a healthy life. However, that changed in June of 2017, when she started having ...

About two to three years ago, Jullie Barrett, who lives in Rolla and was raised in Waynesville, visited her doctor, who believed Barrett’s blood sugar was too high based on her symptoms. Barrett was given an A1C test, a common blood test used to diagnose diabetes, and the results showed her average blood sugar level over three months was about ...

Rolla teenager Dylan Vanormer enjoyed art. He made pencil drawings and created pieces using oil paints and spray paint. However, when he lost mobility due to a brain tumor that eventually spread to his spine, he did not want to give up his passion. So, he got innovative. “Dylan was in a wheelchair, and he would roll over tubes of ...

Robin Wisdom had not had a mammogram in nearly 20 months. So her primary care provider, Barbie Fulton, a family nurse practitioner (FNP) at Phelps Health who practices in Salem, helped Wisdom schedule a mammogram at Phelps Health's Comprehensive Breast Center. That turned out to be an important decision, as Wisdom’s care team at Phelps Health discovered “something” during her ...

Phelps Health Emergency Medical Services (EMS) staff have a new ambulance thanks to the generosity of the Phelps Health Auxiliary and Volunteer Services. The Phelps Health Auxiliary raised $220,000 and donated the funds to go toward the purchase of a new Ford F-350 ambulance as well as additional specialty equipment for the new vehicle. Phelps Health leaders and employees as ...