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- November 2, 2012
Breast Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary
- As the Sonnenalp Breast Center marks its 10th anniversary, the Center looks back on an amazing journey from a mere vision in Rosana Faessler’s eye to a top-notch, state-of-the-art Breast Center of Excellence.“I’m really proud of what we’ve accomplished in the past 10 years,” states Dr. Janice Ugale, foremost breast radiologist for the Breast Center. “We started the center 10 years ago, with a digital mammography unit. It was the first digital mammography unit in the mountains.”Yet, even more imp... MORE →
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- November 2, 2012
Vail Valley Medical Center Brings Home Five Gold Leaf Awards
- Vail Valley Medical Center’s marketing team brought five awards home to Vail from the 2012 Gold Leaf Award ceremony on October 18th in Denver. In their first year entering the competition, the team, consisting of director of marketing Michael Holton, communications and publications manager Lindsay Warner, online marketing manager Emily Tamberino, special events manager Christine Albertson, videographer/photographer Kevin Heinz and physician liaison Byron Morris, were “pleasantly surprised and gr... MORE →
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- October 30, 2012
VVMC Appoints New VP of Human Resources
- Vail Valley Medical Center recently announced the addition of Rick Smith to serve as the senior vice president of human resources. “Rick brings over 30 years of experience and leadership skills to VVMC and has proven to build robust, team-oriented work cultures,” said Doris Kirchner, president and CEO of Vail Valley Medical Center. “As one of the largest employers in Eagle County, we are excited to add Rick to our team and have him lead our extensive HR efforts.” Smith has over three decades of ... MORE →
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- October 16, 2012
Breast Cancer Risk: Do Fruits & Veggies Matter?
- Your mom was always right - we should be eating all of those fruits and vegetables! A recent comprehensive review of research from the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) found eating low-fat, and increasing fruits and vegetables does in fact decrease the risk of breast cancer but what veggies and fruit you eat and how they are prepared matters too! The recent AICR study asked people about their eating habits and then followed them to see if health problems can be linked back to their... MORE →
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- October 11, 2012
Cordillera Event Raises $45,000 for Shaw Cancer Center
- For the ladies of Cordillera, rallying for breast cancer isn't a new thing. They have been putting on Cordillera's Pad the Bra for nine years now. Pad the Bra, held at the home of Craig Foley this year, auctioned off home rentals, a ski day with an Olympian, a week in Bali, golf lessons, a zipline party and more, raising $45,000 for Shaw Regional Cancer Center.“We have all been touched by family and friends with breast cancer and we continue the fight in their honor,” said Pad the Bra co-founder... MORE →
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- October 9, 2012
Pretty Up for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and pink is popping up all over. Our local firefighters are pink, our local beer (Crazy Mountain Brewery) is pink and our local salons and spas are really pink. Throughout the month of October, Shaw Regional Cancer Center is putting on ‘Pretty in Pink,’ a partnership between Shaw and local salons, spas and other businesses to raise awareness about breast cancer and raise funds to help local women in need with breast cancer diagnosis. Throughout October, t... MORE →
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- September 10, 2012
VVMC Earns Nuclear Medicine Accreditation
- VVMC has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in nuclear medicine as the result of a recent review by the American College of Radiology (ACR). Nuclear medicine is a branch of medical imaging that uses small amounts of radioactive material, ingested by the patient, to diagnose and treat a variety of disease, including many types of cancers, heart disease and certain other abnormalities within the body. The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality ... MORE →
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- September 5, 2012
How to Stay Healthy at Altitude
- Moving on up isn't always so comfortable. High-altitude living can bring about physical stresses, and it's important to assist your body in adjusting to mountain elevations. Pam Westfall is a registered nurse at Vail Valley Medical Center. As an employee health nurse for the center, she offers new hires at VVMC resources for making the altitude adjustment. "Some who have lived at lower elevations may experience a period of physical adjustment to the higher elevation," said Westfall. Here are... MORE →
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- August 27, 2012
The Vail Breast Cancer Awareness Group Donates $50,000 for Diagnostic Tests
- The Vail Breast Cancer Awareness Group (VBCAG) is pleased to announce the creation of the GAP Fund - $50,000 has been donated to the Sonnenalp Breast Diagnostic Imaging Center at the Shaw Regional Cancer Center for those who need additional diagnostic tests. "Unlike donations that we have previously made that are spread over several years - we want the money to be used in one year," says Kristin Kenney Williams, president of the VBCAG. Williams continued: "We were shocked to learn that many wo... MORE →
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- August 14, 2012
A Small Town With Big City Care
- When Dr. Scott Schneider, a radiation oncologist in Vancouver, Washington, was faced with a complicated breast cancer case last year, he presented the case to a specialist on the other side of the country - without ever leaving his office. That meeting with Dr. Jay Harris, a radiation oncologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, took place via Chartrounds, a new online network linking radiation oncologists in small practices with disease-site specialists from around the country. One su... MORE →
