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LAKEWOOD, Calif., Feb. 10, 2011 - With approximately one death occurring every 36 seconds from cardiovascular disease, Americans need to find a way to beat the odds. That premise is the impetus behind Lakewood Regional Medical Center's new campa...
Lakewood, CA — recovering from surgery can be long and difficult, but the newest addition at Lakewood Regional Medical Center will help make the process a little easier.
The hospital celebrated the grand opening of their $1.2 million newly expande...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It's a visual that anyone who has watched TV in the last ten years would recognize: sirens blaring, ambulance wheels screeching to a stop, paramedics speeding an occupied gurney toward the emerge...
LAKEWOOD - March 1, 2009 - The county has added another specialty center for treating heart attacks and the Lakewood site is expanding its cardiac services with new treatment facilities.
On Feb. 25, Lakewood Regional Medical Center was certifie...
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
LAKEWOOD - Congresswoman Linda Sanchez toured Lakewood Regional Medical Center last week, and took the opportunity to discuss the newly-passed health care reform bill with hospital staff.
According to Congresswoman Sanchez, the benefits of Th...
Monday, August 23, 2010 Get with the Guidelines is a quality improvement initiative of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. It provides hospital staff with tools to follow proven, evidence-based guidelines and procedures to improve outcomes, prevent ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Lakewood Regional Medical Center Earns Award for High Standards of Heart Attack Care
Lakewood Regional Medical Center qualified for the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline Silver Quality Achievement Award for heart attack care. The ...
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Sports injuries can be either acute traumatic, which require immediate medical care, or chronic overuse injuries. When should you treat a sports injury yourself, and when should you stop playing until you see a physician? Here are a few sports i...
Friday, October 12, 2012 What is it?
Mammography is a low dose X-ray that is used to take images of the breasts. Doctors use it to help detect and diagnose breast disease in women. Mammography can find changes in the breast up to two years before you or your physician ca...
Friday, October 12, 2012 Nearly five million Americans receive blood transfusions every year to treat a wide variety of medical conditions from serious injuries to cancer and hemophilia. However, in some cases, there may be another option for treatment that does not involv...
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Lakewood Regional Medical Center Sophisticated Heart Care, Close To Home
Mending broken hearts of every kind is the specialty of The Heart & Vascular Center at Lakewood Regional Medical Center (LRMC). Over the last three years, LRMC has expa...
Friday, June 24, 2011 What is blood pressure?
Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the artery walls. The force is generated with each heartbeat as blood is pumped from the heart into the blood vessels. The size and elasticity of the artery walls also...
Monday, June 13, 2011
June 13, 2011
The digestive system is like a finely tuned machine when all the parts of the body work together in unison. After food leaves the stomach and enters the small intestine, the liver produces bile to help digest food. Bile, some of w...
Tuesday, June 07, 2011 Regular exercise and good nutrition can help you live a long, healthy life. But if you’re not paying attention to your bones, life could be very uncomfortable. Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by low bone mass and structural deterioration o...
To help improve local access to highly specialized heart care services, Lakewood Regional Medical Center has broken ground on a $10 million expansion of its cardiac catheterization laboratory. Due to the increasing number of cardiac patients bei...
Understanding Congestive Heart Failure
June 24, 2012
Nearly five million Americans live with heart failure and each year more than 550,000 people are told by their physicians that they have the condition. Congestive heart failure (CHF) cannot ...
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