KALAMAZOO, MI – Borgess has received Gold Plus achievement in Get With The Guidelines®, a quality improvement program helping hospitals ensure patient care that’s consistent with the most up-to-date scientific guidelines from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.

To receive this award, Borgess achieved 85 percent or higher adherence to all Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Quality Achievement indicators for two or more consecutive 12-month intervals, as well as realized 75 percent or higher compliance with six of 10 Get With The Guidelines Stroke Quality Measures. Designed to reduce death and disability, and improve the lives of patients, these quality measures include aggressive use of the latest stroke medications, cholesterol-reducing drugs and smoking cessation.

For more on our stroke care difference, visit stroke.borgess.com.

Funded through grants from The Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation and Borgess Health, the screening offers participants the opportunity to learn about their risk for stroke. Health care professionals will be available to talk about warning signs and assess key stroke risk factors, including high blood pressure, diabetes and cigarette smoking.

About 795,000 Americans each year suffer a new or recurrent stroke. That means, on average, a stroke occurs every 40 seconds.

Pre-registration for this screening is required. Call (269) 226.8135 or (800) 828.8135.

KALAMAZOO, MI – Thanks to the community support for the 2011 Borgess Tree of Love campaign, hundreds of low-income women without health insurance will receive potentially lifesaving gifts in the New Year—free mammography services.

“Because of the generosity of area residents, we exceeded our goal of $50,000 ($51,001),” said Kim Loftus, CFRE, development officer, Borgess Foundation. “While more women than we expected will be helped by this extraordinary kindness, we encourage those who still wish to contribute to do so. The holidays may be officially behind us, but the need for support of these vital services continues to grow.”

The actual goal was “topped” through a generous donation from Dr. Dean J. Copely, who also served as one of the campaign’s physician champions.

Major sponsors of this year’s campaign included Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan; Cole Buick-GMC-Cadillac; Hall Render Killian Heath &Lyman; Kalamazoo Amusement; Miller Johnson, Attorneys and Counselors; Sanford Tolchin, MD; The Surgical Group of Southwest Michigan; The Tyler Little Family Foundation; and Julia and William Van Domelen.

Since 1985, the Borgess Tree of Love campaign has helped countless women receive free mammography services to identify breast cancer. The campaign also provides an opportunity for donors to honor employees, colleagues, family and friends. The names of donors and those receiving this special tribute are listed on the Web site, and honorees receive an acknowledgement card in the mail.

The Borgess Foundation still welcomes tax-deductible donations at treeoflove.borgess.com. Donor forms are also available for mail-in contributions by calling (269) 226.8100. CJ’s Pub (1027 Schuster, Kalamazoo) will also hold its annual breast cancer dart tournament on Saturday, January 28, beginning at 4 p.m. Proceeds will again benefit the Borgess Tree of Love. To learn more, call (269) 343.4577.

Every $8 donation to the Tree of Love campaign helps a woman receive a mammogram, while allowing the donor to honor or remember someone special. Every $80 donation sponsors a mammogram for a woman and allows the donor to honor or remember up to 10 people.

It’s estimated that one in every five women does not have insurance that covers breast cancer detection services, such as mammography. Several studies have shown that mammograms can reduce a woman’s risk of dying of breast cancer.

“The American Cancer Society estimates that nearly 34,000 American men will lose their lives to prostate cancer this year,” said Anthony R. Gauthier, MD, board-certified urologist with Borgess Lee Medical Group. “The good news is that more than 2 million men in the U.S. who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer are still alive today. If prostate cancer is detected early through simple and painless testing, it can often be successfully treated.”

What is a PSA Test?

A PSA test is a painless screening that measures the amount of prostate-specific antigen, a substance released into a man’s blood by the prostate gland. Low amounts of PSA may be found in a healthy man’s blood; however, this substance typically increases as the prostate enlarges with age. PSA may also increase due to inflammation of the prostate gland or prostate cancer.

Dr. Gauthier and Joe Mashni, family nurse practitioner (FNP), Borgess Lee Medical Group, will provide the free prostate cancer screenings. Testing is recommended for men 50 and older. Test results will be confidentially mailed to participants, and if requested, their physicians. To learn more or register for this free screening event, call (269) 783.3053.

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