Sep. 14, 2014 @ 12:00 AM RUSSELL, Ky. -- Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital has received the Get With The Guildlines Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures for the treatment of stroke patients. Get With The Guildlines Stroke helps hospital teams provide the most up-to-date, research-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. "With this award, our hospital demonstrates our commitment to ensure that our patients receive care based on internationally respected clinical guidelines," said OLBH stroke coordinator Natalie Grizzle. Those seeking more information on services offered by OLBH can call 606-833-2273. HUNTINGTON -- Winston Munro, owner of Ponderosa Steakhouse in Huntington, has joined parent company Homestyle Dining LLC in contributing $15,000 to Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign. This is the second year Homestyle Dining and its franchisees have participated in the campaign that helps connect children across the country with nutritious food. "In this great country of ours, and even here in Huntington, it's just not acceptable that one single child goes hungry," Munro said. "On behalf of all the wonderful staff here at Ponderosa in Huntington, I am honored to be able … Continue reading →

When Auburn alumni Michael and Sara Heatherly discovered their son Porter had a rare genetic disorder, they didn't know at first that their alma mater was leading the fight against it. Researchers at Auburn's College of Veterinary Medicine have been researching how to treat the same genetic disorder in cats...and are now ready to move on to the human testing phase. "When you get a diagnosis that your child might not live to be two, you kind of lose hope and that's the way we were for a few weeks, even months afterward,," Sara said. "Then when we find out something like this is happening down the road, it turned our life around. It gave us hope and made us realize that's Porter's purpose." Porter has gangliosidosis, otherwise known as GM1, a genetic disorder that attacks the brain and spinal cord, similar to Alzheimer's. Only one in every 360,000 children will be affected and there is no cure or treatment. Life expectancy for those born with the disorder is just two years. "The really cruel thing about this disease is that they appear to be normal for the first six to eight months of their life, and then they begin … Continue reading →

Stem Cell Therapy for Osteoarthritis Ross Hauser, MD explains Stem Cell Prolotherapy using whole bone marrow. If you have osteoarthritis and are interested in how stem cell therapy may help you, we would love to see you in one... By: Caring Medical and Rehabilitation Services … Continue reading →