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Read Time: Three Minutes Did you know that except for skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer found in men? In 2017, the most recent year that data was available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 207,000 new cases of prostate cancer were reported among men. In Missouri, there were about 3,400 cases reported ...

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 ...

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 ...