When Douglas Henry Harnish, Jr., was born at CCMH on May 12, 1920, a small notice appeared in the newspaper indicating that he had “the triple distinction of being the first-born of his parents…the first grandchild…and the first baby to be born in the new city hospital.” Ninety years later, Harnish celebrated a very special birthday on May 12 at his current residence at the Golden Ridge Senior Living Center in Lead, South Dakota. Harnish graduated in 1943 from West Virginia University as the highest-ran...

Relay For Life is Celebrating “More Birthdays” because we believe that in a world with less cancer is a world with more birthdays and we are working hard to make that happen.   The Relay For Life of Wood County is one way for us to celebrate and to raise money to create more birthdays and it is well underway.   Many passionate and dedicated teams are hosting fundraisers and asking for donations to raise money to benefit your American Cancer Society.   The money raised in our community hel...

People from all walks of life will converge on Parkersburg City Park on Saturday, October 2 nd to celebrate a day of heart-health at the American Heart Association’s 2010 Wood-Washington Start! Heart Walk.   The day’s events will offer plenty of fun activities for families as well as heart-healthy information for all in attendance.   “The Start! Heart Walk is not just about getting in a line and walking around the park,” said Kendra Liddle, Start! Heart Walk Director for the Heart Association....

Camden-Clark’s Lifetime Partners program now offers Lifeline with AutoAlert, an enhanced medical alert service.   This integrated solution offers an added layer of protection by combining the industry-leading Lifeline medical alert service with automatic fall detection capabilities. Lifeline with AutoAlert features the only pendant-style help button that can automatically call for help if a fall is detected and a senior is unable to push his or her help button.   According to an internal labor...

Nurses at Camden-Clark are being honored with The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. The award, presented in collaboration with The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform everyday. The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, CA, and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocyt...

Members of Lifetime Partners—CCMH’s exclusive program for anyone 55 and older—celebrated the group’s 13th anniversary at a luncheon held on Nov. 16. Close to 200 seniors attended the event, held at the Parkersburg Country Club. The celebration included food, entertainment and prizes. More than 30 vendors were on hand with information about products and services available for seniors. Entertainment for the event featured the music of Patsy Cline performed by Parkersburg’s own Sherry Wilson. Lifetime Partn...

Judy Walters, RN, has been committed to caring for new mothers and their babies since she began working in Camden-Clark’s obstetrical unit in 1993.   Walters draws on her experiences with the many mothers and babies with whom she has worked over the years to educate the new mothers on the skills they need for their new roles, especially breastfeeding.   It was when Walters was a young mother herself that she decided to return to school at West Virginia University-Parkersburg to pursue a career...

Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital has applied to provide angioplasty services on an emergency basis. We’re not asking to do open heart surgery or elective heart angioplasty but rather, simply address the problems of patients that show up on our premises needing their arteries opened. The standard treatment in the past had physicians administer thrombolytic (“clot-busting”) drugs. However, several years ago, according to scientific research, it was determined that in a situation where seconds and minutes ar...