Valley West Medical Center
Recent News About Valley West Medical Center
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: First-of-its-kind Study Shows That COVID-19 Can Result in Irreversible Lung Damage Requiring Lung Transplantation
For the first time, researchers found that COVID-19 can destroy the fundamental framework of the lungs, rendering them irrecoverable, and lung transplantation is the only option for survival
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Northwestern Medicine Partners with Caption Health to Introduce New Artificially Intelligent Ultrasound Systems into Clinical Practice
Northwestern Memorial Hospital is the first hospital in the United States to purchase Caption Health’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology for ultrasound, Caption AI.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Northwestern Launches COVID-19 Registry For Vaccine Trials To Prevent Infection
Northwestern Medicine has launched a COVID Prevention Trials Registry for people who are interested in participating in COVID-19 clinical trials to prevent infection from the virus.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Patient Receives Innovative Surgery That Combines Chest Tumor Removal, Heated Chemotherapy
Teams from Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital have partnered to perform thoracic chemoperfusion on a man in his 60s from Chicago’s western suburbs.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: How to Stay Healthy During COVID-19
What can I do to improve my immune system and protect myself against COVID-19?
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: 10 Signs It’s Time to See a Cardiologist
Risk Factors and Symptoms You Shouldn’t Ignore Your heart is one hard-working muscle, beating more than 100,000 times a day.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER:Tips To Manage Heart Health In The Cold
Cold weather is the most common health risk you encounter in the winter, but people often view the danger in the extreme, as hypothermia or frostbite.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: ECMH Enhances Primary Care Education for Students
Students who participated in the Education Centered Medical Home (ECMH) program — a four-year, team based clerkship that provides care to underserved populations — experienced superior primary care training compared to a traditional clerkship model, according to a study recently published in Academic Medicine.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Northwestern Memorial Hospital Only Hospital in the United States to Provide Highest-Quality, Lowest-Cost Care To Heart Attack And Heart Failure Patients
It’s the Holy Grail of the health care industry — providing the safest, highest quality care for the lowest price possible.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Common Overuse Injuries in the Endurance Athlete
Join Steven Mayer, MD, Northwestern Medicine Orthopaedics, for a discussion about common overuse injuries in the endurance athlete, covering everything from diagnosis to treatment
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Map of Broken Brain Networks Shows Why People Lose Speech in Language-Based Dementia
For the first time, Northwestern Medicine scientists have pinpointed the location of dysfunctional brain networks that lead to impaired sentence production and word finding in primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a form of dementia in which patients often lose their language rather than their memory or thought process.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital Golfers to Get Some Tips from the Pros at the BMW Championship
Golfers from the Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital Therapeutic Golf Program will get some tips from the pros at the BMW Championship from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, August 14.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Northwestern Memorial Hospital Is Recognized Among The Top 10 Hospitals In The Country And Remains No. 1 In Chicago and Illinois
U.S. News & World Report has recognized four Northwestern Medicine hospitals in its 2019-20 Best Hospitals* rankings.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital Ranked 10th in Soliant’s 2019 Top 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals in the U.S.
Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital announced today that it ranked 10th on Soliant’s 10th annual Top 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals awards.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Northwestern Memorial Hospital First in the U.S. to Perform Robotic Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
Northwestern Memorial Hospital is the first in the country to successfully complete robotic-assisted lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) using the da Vinci Xi Surgical System®* to remove diseased, emphysematous tissue within the lungs for the treatment of severe emphysema, a progressive form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Alfardan Group Moves into the Health Sector with the Launch of 'Alfardan Medical with Northwestern Medicine'
Alfardan Group has ventured into Qatar’s medical services sector with the launch of the Alfardan Medical with Northwestern Medicine.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital Awarded Advanced Certification for Primary Stroke Centers
Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Heart-Check mark for Advanced Certification for Primary Stroke Centers*.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Northwestern Memorial Hospital partners with Franciscan Health on neurological services
Neurosurgical and Telestroke services in Northwest Indiana aim to improve care, patient outcomes Franciscan Health announced today that it has entered into a professional services agreement with the department of neurological surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Avoiding the Hippocampus During Whole-Brain Radiotherapy Prevents Cognitive Side Effects
Whole-brain radiotherapy can be delivered more safely to patients with brain metastases by avoiding the hippocampus according to a randomized phase III NRG Oncology trial presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting.
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VALLEY WEST MEDICAL CENTER: Northwestern Memorial HealthCare named to Working Mother “100 Best Companies” for 19th Consecutive Year
For the 19th consecutive year, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare (NMHC) is recognized by Working Mother magazine as one of the 2018 “100 Best Companies” for its outstanding leadership in female career advancement, paid parental leave, childcare assistance, benefits and flextime.