If you have been feeling increased joint pain the past few weeks, you can blame it on weather. Falling temperatures can make your arthritis feel more painful and stiffness worsen. [caption id="attachment_53590" align="alignleft" width="200"] Dr. Alyssa Erskine[/caption] Joint pain is fairly common, and it can happen at...
This week, we spoke with Beacon Medical Group President Dale Patterson and members of our Beacon Infection Prevention team about the status of COVID at Beacon and in our community. We have recently seen an increase in: COVID-related emergency department visits at Beacon Community flu-like illness...
RSV infections are increasing across the country, including here in our region. We sat down with Dr. Kate Dutkiewicz, Beacon Children’s Hospital medical director, to talk about the recent uptick in pediatric RSV cases and hospitalizations and explain how this year is the same or...
[caption id="attachment_53553" align="alignleft" width="317"] Steve Dewey and Tegan[/caption] It was in July of 2023 that Steve Dewey first began feeling a soreness in the back of his right leg. Over the course of just a couple weeks, it went from a sense of mild irritation to...
The fall and winter months can be tough on backs when many of us are outdoors doing chores like raking leaves and shoveling snow. At some point in our lives, most of us -- 84 percent, in fact -- will experience back pain. And while the...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Last week, a Miraculous Medal Ceremony took place at Memorial Hospital of South Bend to inspire the construction team to complete the new Memorial Patient Tower safely. The ceremony and medal tossing into the fresh concrete is a long-standing...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] [caption id="attachment_53510" align="alignright" width="480"] Lee Erdman (left), a South Bend Saint Joseph High School senior, Dr. Rajalakshmy Sundararajan, Emergency Medicine, and Dr. Scott Thomas, Emergency Medicine and Chief of Trauma Services, pose with their award-winning poster.[/caption] Award-winning and internationally...
[caption id="attachment_53489" align="alignright" width="426"] Credit: Laura Ault Photography[/caption] Drew Strasser, a healthy, athletic high school senior, was at tennis practice at his high school when he collapsed, no longer breathing. Practice had been indoors that day, a small detail that may well have saved Drew’s life. That’s...
When Rebecca Rodriguez reflects on her battle against breast cancer, a particular memory stands out. She was at Elkhart General Hospital, waiting to be called back for one of her radiation therapy sessions. There was a young woman, she said, maybe in her early 20s, in the...
[caption id="attachment_53420" align="alignleft" width="316"] Al Hartman stands behind his mother, sisters and brother at his retirement party.[/caption] The most memorable moment of Al Hartman’s 42-plus years at Elkhart General Hospital? “Right now,” he said during his retirement party when coworkers surprised him with some very special visitors...
