South Central Sports Performance+ is an athletic enhancement program offered to athletes ages 12 and older. Spike Richards, program coordinator, says they offer sport-specific programs. They have softball players, baseball players, basketball players, swimmers, soccer players, and karate athletes. The Sports Performance+ program is especially valuable to female soccer athletes who are at high risks […]

Laurel, MS– Strategic Healthcare Programs (SHP), a national quality benchmarking organization, has named ComfortCare Hospice a Premier Performer in Caregiver Satisfaction for the 2017 calendar year. This recognition was awarded to facilities who ranked in the top 5% in national quality measures. With over 6,500 hospice facilities included in the database, those awarded as a […]

New Hope for Hearing Loss: Lunch and Learn on Friday, September 7th. Join South Central Regional Medical Center on Friday, September 7th as Jessica Smith, Au.D., CCC-A Audiologist at Ear, Nose and Throat Surgical Clinic of Laurel, discusses new trends in hearing loss. As technology advances, hearing specialists say hearing aids will continue to get […]

The Lindstrom Eye & Laser Center in Laurel offers comprehensive eye care from routine exams to treatment for the full spectrum of eye diseases and problems. One of their many offerings is an optical coherence tomogram (OCT) which is a noninvasive imaging device that uses light waves to scan the optic nerve and the retina […]

The Vein Center in Laurel Offers Free Screenings for Varicose Veins on Thursday, September 13. Varicose veins affect half of the people over age 50 and can start earlier, for example, following pregnancy in women. You may notice the darkened leg veins first as a cosmetic nuisance, a reason not to wear shorts. But for […]

The team at South Central Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine in Laurel work together to reduce the number of individuals who suffer with wound conditions. This is a clinic within the hospital where people who have chronic and acute wounds are seen on a weekly basis. Individualized treatment plans are provided for each patient and […]

South Central Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine provides comprehensive care to heal chronic wounds. Medical Director of the clinic, Dr. Stacy Street, explains that most of the wounds they see are diabetic foot ulcers or other ulcers that aren’t healing properly. They have a large array of products that do different things from cleaning up the surface […]