South Texas Healthcare System HealthNews
Summer 2009

Contents

 Home
 An Act of Brotherly Love
 Faith Finds a Way
 A Daughter Gives
the Ultimate Gift
 A Home Away
From Home
 From Transplant Recipient to
Transplant Advocate
 Help and Hope
for Depression
 Consolidated Nursery is Convenient for Parents
 Meet the Physicians at the South Texas Transplant Center
 Neurosurgery at
McAllen Medical
Center: 24/7 Care
 STHS receives Contract Award for Veterans' Health Services
 Advantage News
 Save a Life! Be an Organ Donor
 Advantage Program Calendar of Events
June 2009
 Advantage Program Calendar of Events
July 2009
 Advantage Program Calendar of Events
August 2009
 Past Issues

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Photo of brothers Eli and Andy
An Act of Brotherly Love

Two years ago, Elizandro "Eli" Cortez felt like he was living a nightmare. His diabetes, which was uncontrolled for years, started taking a devastating toll on his body. Soon his kidneys started failing.

"My body swelled up with fluids and my weight shot up to 300 pounds," he says. "I couldn't bend down or walk from the bedroom to the kitchen."

 Photo of a the opening of the family room

A Home Away
From Home


Edinburg Children's Hospital has teamed with the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Rio Grande Valley and opened a new Ronald McDonald Family Room.

Photo of a baby

Consolidated Nursery is Convenient
for Parents


We're making changes to the newborn nurseries at the Birthing Center of South Texas to streamline care, keep babies more secure and make it easier for parents to see their babies.
Help and Hope for Depression

You're feeling anxious. You've lost interest in your favorite activities. You have no energy and no appetite. Yet when loved ones ask, you insist nothing is wrong.

  Neurosurgery at McAllen Medical Center: 24/7 Care

McAllen Medical Center is the only hospital in Hidalgo County that has neurosurgeons available 24 hours a day to evaluate and treat patients.

  Save a Life! Be an Organ Donor

More than 100,000 people are currently waiting for an organ transplant in the United States. An estimated 3,800 of those people live in Central and South Texas.


Edinburg Children's Hospital · Edinburg Regional Medical Center
Edinburg Regional Rehab Center · McAllen Heart Hospital
McAllen Medical Center · South Texas Behavioral Health Center
Cornerstone Regional Hospital

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