South Central Regional Medical Center receives Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award American Heart Association Award recognizes SCRMC’s commitment to quality stroke care LAUREL, AUGUST 25, 2020 ― South Central Regional Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The […]

The Emergency Department at South Central Regional Medical Center is adding new physicians to its team of experts in the field of emergency medicine. One of those is Dr. Edmund Chinchar who served as a Lieutenant in the US Navy for 4 years prior to attending medical school at the University of Mississippi School of […]

Each year, almost 800,000 people suffer from a stroke, making it the leading cause of serious, long-term disability in America.  Wyth Collins, EMServ’s operations manager at South Central Regional Medical Center explains discusses two different types of strokes.  During a stroke, the brain is deprived of oxygen, which causes brain tissue to die.  That’s why […]

A stroke is the sudden death of brain cells due to lack of oxygen caused by a blockage of blockage of blood flow or rupture of an artery to the brain.  Blake Munna, stroke coordinator at South Central, explains that some of the signs and symptoms of a stroke could be slurred speech, weakness on […]