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Top Stories from St. Joseph's Hospital and Barrow Neurological Institute
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Muhammad Ali Salutes Medical Community
Surrounded by medical heavyweights, Muhammad Ali continued the fight by honoring 50 top surgeons and physicians at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Barrow at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center is home of the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center.
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Actor Henry Winkler Visits Barrow, Speaks to Patients with Brain Injuries
Actor Henry Winkler, who is best known for his role as The Fonz on Happy Days, made a special visit to St. Joseph’s Barrow Neurological Institute. Winkler spoke with the hospital’s brain injury patients about stroke and its effects.
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Phoenix Fire, St. Joseph’s Launch Chest Pain Awareness Campaign
The City of Phoenix Fire Department and St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center today announced a public education campaign aimed at informing Valley residents of heart attack symptoms and encouraging them to not delay in getting medical help.
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Catholic Healthcare West is Now Dignity Health
Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), the fifth largest health system in the nation, announced today that it has changed its name to Dignity Health as part of a governance restructure that will position the organization to succeed in a changing health care environment.
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Readied For Life Support Removal, 21-Year-Old Emerges From Coma
(Reported by ABC News) Sam Schmid, an Arizona college student believed to be brain dead and poised to be an organ donor, miraculously recovered just hours before doctors were considering taking him off life support. Schmid, a junior and business major at the University of Arizona, was critically wounded in an Oct. 19 five-car accident in Tucson.
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University of Arizona Cancer Center Enters Affiliation Agreement with St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
Two leading Arizona health care entities, The University of Arizona Cancer Center (UACC), the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center headquartered in Arizona, and St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center/CHW (St. Joseph’s), have entered into an agreement to form an innovative collaboration in Phoenix.
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Thousands of Christmas Toys Stolen from St. Joseph’s
Thousands of toys, valued at approximately $20,000, were stolen from the Children’s Rehabilitative Services (CRS) clinic at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. Many of the burglarized toys were intended to be Christmas gifts for children with chronic and disabling medical conditions.
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100th Lung Transplant at St. Joseph's
On the eve of Veterans Day, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center announced that a 62-year-old Vietnam War era veteran has become the hospital’s 100th lung transplant patient.
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Barrow, AIA and Cardinals Mandate Concussion Education
Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, The Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA), and the Arizona Cardinals announced a major breakthrough in concussion prevention and research that will immediately affect more than 100,000 Arizona student athletes.
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St. Joseph’s Resolved in Saving Mother’s Life, Confident Following Bishop’s Announcement
The leadership of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix is saddened following Bishop Thomas Olmsted’s announcement that he has revoked his endorsement of the hospital as “Catholic.” At his direction, the hospital will remove the Blessed Sacrament from the chapel and will no longer celebrate Mass there.
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