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  • National Nurses Week
    Last Updated: 4:22 PM 07/13/11 - If you've ever been hospitalized, or even visited the doctor's office, you know how important nurses are. And so do the administrators at our local hospitals.
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  • World's Smallest Heart Pump Available in Bay County
    Last Updated: 8:59 AM 04/26/11 - Panama City -- Local doctors now have a new option to treat critically ill heart patients: It's the world's smallest heart pump.
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  • Beating Heart Surgery
    Last Updated: 11:16 AM 04/21/11 - Panama City -- By-pass surgery has come a long way. A few years ago, Bay Medical heart surgeons added one more option for patients: It's called beating-heart surgery. During most by-pass surgeries doctors stop the heart. A heart and lung machine is used to temporarily divert the blood. Beating heart surgery is a way to perform the same type of surgery without stopping the heart.
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  • New Proceedure Takes Clear Picture of Baby In Womb
    Last Updated: 3:04 PM 04/05/11 - Panama City -- Most parents can't get enough pictures of their baby. But what about a photo shoot before he or she is born? That's now an option that some local parents are taking advantage of. While it's not a required test, the parents say it is a lot of fun.
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  • New Surgery for Acid Reflux
    Last Updated: 3:44 PM 03/15/11 - Panama City -- Acid reflux can cause a lot more than heartburn. If left untreated, it can lead to esophageal cancer. But there's good news for local patients. A local hospital is offering a new surgery that not only cures acid reflux, but lets patients get back to eating and sleeping normally.
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  • Healing The Heart Part 2
    Last Updated: 9:22 AM 02/25/11 - Fried food, no exercise, smoking, are all precursors to heart disease. Those are the factors you can control, but as one local woman learned, you can't control genetics. She believed everything was fine, until she caught what she thought was the flu.
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  • Healing The Heart
    Last Updated: 2:22 PM 02/24/11 - February is heart month and folks in the Panhandle are all too familiar with heart disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, released last year, shows Florida leads the nation in the number of people suffering from heart disease and the panhandle has the highest rate in the state.
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  • Bay Medical Center Faces Tough Times
    Last Updated: 8:07 AM 12/09/10 - Financial struggles effect one local hospital.
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  • New Radiation Therapy Machine in Panama City
    Last Updated: 9:07 AM 09/17/10 - Gulf Coast Cancer Treatment Center revealed a new device that will help doctors perform more accurate radiation therapy.
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  • Move into New Bay Medical Building Goes Seamlessly
    Last Updated: 8:14 AM 09/14/10 - As patients move into the Bay Medical Center's new patient tower, the transition is said to be going smoothly, so far.
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  • Grand opening for Bay Medical Center Patient Tower
    Last Updated: 8:45 AM 09/09/10 - Panama City - Wednesday began a new chapter for local healthcare, as Bay Medical Center officials cut the ribbon on their brand new patient tower.
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  • Bay Medical E.R. Ultrasound
    Last Updated: 9:23 AM 08/26/10 - Have you ever spent time in an emergency room and after an initial examination you've had to be taken to other departments for more exams? One local hospital has new technology that could make that a thing of the past. It's especially useful when it comes to trauma patients.
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  • Headlining performer announced for Bay Med’s Society Gala
    Last Updated: 9:36 AM 07/23/10 - Panama City – Gathered in the nearly-complete patient tower, Officials from Bay Medical announced the headlining act for their 25th anniversary Society Gala.
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  • Bay Medical unveils plans for a healing garden
    Last Updated: 10:01 PM 06/03/10 - Tuesday morning bay medical introduced plans for a healing garden as an overall hospital expansion. The healing garden will be located in a 10,000 square foot courtyard between the new building and the current Bay Medical Hospital.
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  • Hepatitis Awareness
    Last Updated: 9:12 PM 05/19/10 - There’s an estimated 375-thousand Floridians living with some form of hepatitis… and many don’t know they are infected.
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  • Checking for Osteoporosis
    Last Updated: 10:13 AM 03/31/10 - Are you getting enough vitamin D? Even if you drink a lot of milk, that may not be enough to keep you from getting osteoporosis. The earlier you start building your bones, the better. The older you get the more brittle your bones become. But there are some things you can do now to keep your bones healthy in the future.
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  • Bay Medical's new surgical floor dedicated to Panama City's first surgeon
    Last Updated: 12:17 PM 12/04/10 - Panama City - As the first surgeon to ever practice in Bay County, Dr. Joseph Morris touched a lot of lives. And he'll continue to do so for several more generations.
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  • Construction Progressing Well At Bay Medical
    Last Updated: 3:52 PM 03/03/10 - Tuesday was a day of celebrations for Bay Medical Center. Hospital administrators gave staff t-shirts commemorating the third straight year Bay Medical was named one of the top 50 hospital's in the U-S.
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  • Breast Reconstruction
    Last Updated: 10:11 AM 03/31/10 - When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, aside from the cancer itself, one of the greatest fears is losing one or both breasts. Some think it will make them feel and appear less of a woman. A local doctor says he has the cure for that.
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  • The Mag 5 at Bay Medical Center
    Last Updated: 9:22 AM 03/31/10 - Local Plastic Surgeon Uses "Mag 5" to help remove 15 to 20 years from your look
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  • Da Vinci's Year Anniversary
    Last Updated: 10:17 AM 03/31/10 - Two years ago this week, doctors at Bay Medical Center performed the first ever completely robotic urological procedure in Northwest Florida. Now, hundreds of surgeries later, the robot is still going strong.
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  • Rapid Arc Technology offers Bay Medical patients fast treatments
    Last Updated: 10:15 AM 03/31/10 - Rapid Arc Technology offers Bay Medical patients fast treatments
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  • Ironman Helps BMC Children
    Last Updated: 9:51 AM 03/31/10 - The Ironman events always try to give something back to the communities that host their events.
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  • St. Andrew Medical Center
    Last Updated: 8:03 AM 08/28/09 - A local medical clinic that offers free healthcare to the uninsured will be able to treat even more patients in the future.
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