This October, Shawnee Health Care is proud to participate in National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is the second most common kind of cancer in women. About 1 in 8 women born today in the United States will get breast cancer at some point. The good news is that most women can survive breast cancer if it’s found and treated early.
If you are a woman age 40 to 49, talk with your doctor about when to start getting mammograms and how often to get them. If you are a woman age 50 to 74, be sure to get a mammogram every 2 years. You may also choose to get them more often. Talk to a doctor about your risk for breast cancer, especially if a close family member of yours had breast or ovarian cancer. Together, you and your doctor can decide what is best for you.
Regular high-quality screening mammograms and clinical breast exams are the most sensitive ways to screen for breast cancer. Insurance plans governed by the federal Affordable Care Act must cover screening mammography as a preventive benefit every 1–2 years for women age 40 and over without requiring copayments, coinsurance, or deductibles. Shawnee Health Service Navigators are available to help you understand things like Essential Health Benefits and how these will help improve your health. If you do not have health insurance, Navigators can help you get coverage during Open Enrollment beginning November 1.
In addition, be sure to get your well-woman exam every year. Use this visit to talk with your doctor or nurse about important screenings and services to help you stay healthy. To make your well-woman exam appointment with Shawnee Health Care, OB/GYN, call (618) 519-9200.
Supporting the fighters, admiring the survivors, honoring the taken, and never, ever giving up hope.
Please join us Wednesday, September 13 at the Shawnee Health Service Administration Building for our Career Fair! Learn more about our opportunities and what it’s like to work at Shawnee Health Service.
Please bring your resume and any applicable certifications and licensure.
View all open positions here: http://bit.ly/taq-shawnee
Check out this article and videos on the Belleville News-Democrat website:
Opioid epidemic in Southern Illinois
Shawnee Health Service is looking for new physicians to join our team!
On February 17, 2017, the People page of the Southern Illinoisan awarded Honorable Mention for Best Doctor (General Practice) to Dr. Jeff Ripperda, Shawnee Health Care, #7 S Hospital Dr, Murphysboro, IL, (618) 519-9200.
Shawnee Health Service is pleased to announce the expansion of oral health services at Shawnee Health Care, Dental in Marion. This expansion is funded in part by the Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation. The goal of this planned expansion is to create additional access for children to a dental home. The planned expansion will add 1200 square feet to the existing building, adding five additional dental exam rooms to the current eight exam rooms. Along with this expansion will come a large clean/dirty work room and a larger patient waiting area. Construction began November 1, 2016 and expected completion is February 2017.
This new construction project funded by the HRSA Health Infrastructure Investment Program, will provide for the addition of a third building on the Lewis Lane property. Psychiatry will be relocating from Wall Street, resulting in a single location where a patient can seek comprehensive health care for general medicine, dental, and mental health needs. We will also relocate Shawnee Health Care, Same Day into the new construction proposed. This approximately 5,000 square foot new building construction project will begin the first of November with completion in June 2017.
After relocating Shawnee Health Care, Same Day into this new construction, we will hire a new primary care provider to work in the vacated space.
