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American Red Cross encourages blood donations leading into Labor Day weekend

The American Red Cross continues to have an urgent need for blood donors of all blood types to give before the Labor Day holiday, even after many more donors stepped up to give following an urgent call issued in late July. Donors with types O negative, B negative and A negative blood are ...

Free clinic to provide free school physicals

The ACE-SAP Free Clinic in Waterloo will offer free school physicals for students on Monday, August 11, from 1:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Students are welcome regardless of income, insurance status or city of residence in the Cedar Valley.The ACE-SAP Free Clinic is located in The Salvation Army ...

Helicopter safety orientation

GRUNDY CENTER Grundy County Memorial Hospital (GCMH) and UnityPoint Health St. Luke's Hospital Lifeguard Air Ambulance will host a free CEU program for nurses, EMS personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement titled Helicopter Safety Orientation. The education will be Wednesday, August 6, ...

Grundy area cancer support group at GCMH on Aug. 4

GRUNDY CENTER Grundy County Memorial Hospital (GCMH) will host the Grundy Area Cancer Support Group on Monday, August 4, 2014 from 4:45 6:45 p.m. in the Education Room. The support group is for anyone with any type of cancer. Please use Entrance #3 on the west side of the hospital.Social ...

IAFP seeking nominations for 2014 family physician of the year award

Is your Family Physician the best of the best? Do they go above and beyond to care for their patients? Are they active in the community? Do you think they deserve the 2014 Family Physician on the Year Award? If so, we want to hear about them!The Iowa Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP) is ...

Free and reduced meal plans for children

The Iowa Department of Education, Bureau of Nutrition and Health Services, today announced its policy for free and reduced price meals for children unable to pay the full price of meals served under the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program and the Afterschool Care Snack ...

Local hospital is recognized for technology innovation

GRUNDY CENTER, Iowa Grundy County Memorial Hospital (GCMH) has been recognized for its exemplary use of Health Information Technology. The hospital has been named a 2014 'Most Wired' hospital by the American Hospital Association's Hospitals & Health Networks, one of just two Iowa ...

Farmers Market set for Grundy County Fair

Grundy Center, Iowa - As every cook knows, the best tasting and most economical foods are the ones that are in season. Grundy County Memorial Hospital dietitians will be at the Farmers Market at the Grundy County Fair next week to demonstrate how you can take advantage of the summer season's ...

Grundy area cancer support group at GCMH

Grundy County Memorial Hospital (GCMH) will host the Grundy Area Cancer Support Group on Monday, August 4, 2014 from 4:45 6:45 p.m. in the Education Room. The support group is for anyone with any type of cancer. Please use Entrance #3 on the west side of the hospital.Join us for a time to ...

Covenant Clinic to host free varicose vein screening in July

Covenant Clinic Vascular Surgeon, Kamran Karimi, MD, FACS, will host a free Varicose Vein Screening on Monday, July 21, 2014 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.Do you have tired, achy, swollen or painful legs?Do you have varicose veins (large, raised, swollen blood vessels that twist and turn)? If the answer ...