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10/06/2006
IMPLOSION SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY
Remaining
Providence Buildings at 18th & Colcord to be Demolished
Sunday Morning, October 8. |
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02/27/2006
A Top 100 Hospital
Providence has been recognized as a Top 100 Hospital in the
Solucient National Benchmarks for Success – 2005, published
in Modern Healthcare. This recognition is for overall
hospital performance and is the first time that Providence
has received this prestigious recognition. |
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01/09/2006
Martin Luther King Celebration
Providence Healthcare Network will host its 21st annual
Martin Luther King celebration on Monday, Jan. 16, 2006 at 2
p.m. in the Providence Pavilion Auditorium. This year’s
theme, “A Day On, Not a Day OFF,” celebrates Dr. King’s
birthday. |
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01/07/2006
$4.2 Million will help revive former
hospital
Plans to
redevelop the old Providence hospital site in North Waco
took a leap forward this week as the federal government
awarded the project a $4.2 million grant.
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06/01/2004
Think Providence! Buy Providence!
Anytime,
anywhere there is Internet access, anyone can go online,
select a Providence product . . .personalize styles and
colors . . .and choose from three network logos: Providence
Healthcare Network; The Heart Hospital at Providence; or,
Providence Healthcare Network presents The FISH! Philosophy.
Your online credit card purchase will be processed quickly,
and your products shipped directly to your home address. |
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04/28/2004
47-Year Employee
to Retire From Providence
On
Thursday, April 29, 2004, Nance Pace, Director of
Nutritional Services at Providence Health Center, will be
honored at a retirement reception from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. in
the Providence Pavilion Auditorium. Ms. Pace is the longest
tenured, full-time employee in the near 100-year history of
Providence. |
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04/06/2004
Young Teacher
from Honduras Receives Life-saving Heart Surgery at
Providence
Earlier
this year, it was learned that a young teacher in Honduras
was dying from a hole in her heart. Knowing that such a
defect is correctable with surgery, a network of local
healthcare professionals came together in a unified effort
to help save the life of a young woman whom they had never
met. |
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03/23/2004
Providence
Offers Bariatric Surgery Program for Obese Patients
Providence Health Center and Waco Surgical Group have
partnered to offer gastric bypass surgery as a lifesaving,
life-changing alternative for extremely obese patients. |
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03/23/2004
Providence
Physician fixes Brain Aneurysms without Surgery
Adam
Borowski, M.D., one of 11 Texas neurological interventional
radiologists, is performing procedures at Providence that
allow him to address aneurysms without surgery. |
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02/09/2004
Providence
Clinic Relocates - New Building, New Name
Dr. Tim
Martindale and his staff at Providence's Lorena Clinic are
in the process of relocating their offices. |
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02/09/2004
Boot Camp for
Dad's offered at Providence
It's
true. Newborns do not come with an owner's manual, but
thanks to a new workshop especially for expectant fathers,
becoming a dad doesn't have to be scary. |
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11/30/2003
Not-so-new
physician comes to Hwy. 84
There's a new doctor on the outskirts of McGregor, but she's
not new to Central Texas.
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11/24/2003
Providence now
using New, Rare Technology for Cardiac
Procedures
In
what amounts to a coup in the medical world, Providence
Health Center unveiled a new piece of heart equipment Friday
that has only been installed at six other hospitals across
the globe. |
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11/24/2003
Providence Basking in
Glow of Nationwide Recognition
The
nation's health-care community is starting to realize what
many Central Texans have known for years —that the cardiac
care available at Providence Health Center in Waco is among
the best in the country. |
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10/30/2003
Providence
Health Center Named One of The Nation’s Top 100
Heart Hospitals
Providence Health Center was
this week named one of the nation’s 100 top cardiovascular
hospitals by Solucient®, an Evanston, IL-based healthcare
information company, and Modern Healthcare, a leading
national hospital industry publication. |
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10/29/2003
Providence Home Care Offering Flu
Shots
Flu shots are
now available Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 8 a.m. -
4 p.m. at Providence Home Care in Meadowlake Center at
Sanger and Hwy 6. No appointment is necessary. |
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10/29/2003
New
Procedure Brings Quick Relief to Back Pain Sufferers
Dr. Mas Oishi, M. D., neurosurgeon at Neurosurgical
Associates has introduced a new less invasive spinal
procedure at Providence, and that’s good news to Central
Texans with serious back pain. |
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10/29/2003
Cleoda Bables Named to Providence Board of Trustees
Ascension Health and the Providence Healthcare Network
announced the appointment of Cleoda Bables to the local
Board of Trustees here in Waco. Mr. Bables is a long-time
member of the Providence Advisory Board and has served our
community in many unselfish ways through the years. |
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10/29/2003
Providence Respiratory Care Department Named Quality Care
Provider by American Association for Respiratory Care
Providence Health Center received recognition as a quality
care provider under a new program aimed at making sure
patients have access to respiratory care services provided
by qualified respiratory therapists.
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6/17/2003
Providence Cardiology Director Receives American Heart
Association's Distinguished Service Award
At the American
Heart Association's Annual Award Dinner, held on June 17th,
the Distinguished Service Award was presented to
Providence’s Director of Cardiology, Debbie Kucera as a
volunteer member who has given outstanding and exceptional
service to the American Heart Association in Texas. |
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6/15/2003
Providence OB/GYN Clinic is expanding
their medical team
Providence OB/GYN Clinic in
Waco is pleased to welcome Karen Mann Patterson, M. D. to
their caring staff of obstetric and gynecological
professionals. Dr. Patterson joins Dr. John Bagnasco and Dr.
Steve Rowe in providing personal attention and experienced
health care to women in Central Texas. |
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6/6/2003
Providence Health Center To Offer Cardiac Patients New Stent
Procedure
If heart disease
has touched your life, you may know that reblockage in the
coronary arteries often requires additional procedures. Now,
a new medical device – the drug-eluting stent – could change
everything. This new medical device is now available in Waco
exclusively at Providence Health Center, and is one of the
first hospitals in the country to provide this procedure. |
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05/6/2003
Public to tour unique long-term care facility in
Waco
The newly completed Providence Park long-term
care facility isn't your grandmother's nursing home. With
three beauty salons, wait-staff style dining, game rooms and
an ice-cream bar, the new facility more closely resembles an
upscale hotel than what most people think of as a nursing
home. |
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05/04/2003
Providence Park to Host Dedication Ceremony
Providence
Healthcare Network would like to invite you to attend the
Dedication and Open House of our new Providence Park Campus
on Sunday, May 4, 2003. |
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05/15/2003
Providence
Receives Golden Apple Award
Waco Independent
School District held its annual “Partners in Education
Celebration of Community – WISD People’s Choice Awards” on
May 15, 2003. Partnerships between businesses and schools
were honored with a reception, banquet and entertainment. |
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11/6/2002
Providence Healthcare Network Awarded Accreditation from
Joint Commission
Providence Healthcare Network has achieved accreditation
from the
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations as a result of its demonstrated compliance
with the Joint Commission’s nationally recognized health
care standards. |
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03/30/2001
Construction
Underway for new Long Term Care Facility
Today's ground
breaking ceremony marked the official beginning of the
construction project for a new long-term care campus at the
corner of Highway 6 and American Plaza Drive. Officials
from both Providence Healthcare Network and CHRISTUS Health
participated in the ceremony. |
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11/6/2002
Stroke
Center Opens in Waco
The Stroke
Center at Providence Health Center draws together a core
group of physicians, nurses, neurologists, neurosurgeons,
radiologists, and critical care nursing staff--all in an
effort to provide quick diagnosis and rapid treatment of
strokes. |
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