Spectrum Healthcare Offers an Innovative Approach to Meeting Individuals’ Needs Founded in October 1965, Spectrum Healthcare Group (Spectrum) began as a single behavioral health clinic. It has since grown into a robust healthcare system dedicated to Arizona’s...
Mechelle’s Story: A Warrior’s Spirit and an Extraordinary Healthcare Team Mechelle Saravo’s family knew she was a fighter from the start. Born premature, Mechelle required five surgeries on her legs between her third and fourth birthdays. Even with heavy casts on both...
YRMG Welcomes Accomplished Neurosurgeon to the Quad Cities By Bridget O’Gara Neurosurgeon Sam Safavi-Abbasi, MD is now performing advanced brain and spine surgeries as well as the latest minimally invasive procedures in the Quad Cities, thanks to an affiliation...
YRMG Cardiologist Dr. Olufunso Odunukan finds his work ‘incredibly gratifying’ By Bridget O’Gara Many people have important childhood experiences that steer them toward their life’s work. Few, however, can point to an event as significant as testifying before the...
One local mother shares the story of her family’s journey through anorexia … and healing By Merissa Brinkerhoff I can’t stay silent. Eating disorders doubled during Covid. One in five diagnosed will die. Quarantine was going as well as could be expected for our family...
The Susan J. Rheem Adult Day Center Celebrates 40 Years of Caring and Gratitude A husband and wife enter the main lobby, to a greeting as warm as sunshine: “Good Morning Bob! Great, you joined us today,” says Laura Dreibelbis, LPN, joyful Program Director of the Susan...
