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Protect Your Heart! Attend FREE Heart to Heart Fair
 Too few women realize that cardiovascular disease is their greatest health risk. In fact, more women than men die of heart disease each year, according to the National Institutes of Health. To help women understand the realities of heart disease – and give them the tools to fight it –
St. John’s Mercy is sponsoring the Heart to Heart Fair in February.
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Learn to Live Successfully with Heart Failure
Heart-Healthy Cooking Made Simple and Delicious
Young Patients Find Magic and
Healing in Children’s Garden
 Sometimes
it’s something as simple as a garden that can make a
difference in a child’s stay at the hospital. The
Children's Garden, located on the third-floor rooftop of
St. John's Mercy Children's Hospital, is now open for
business – the business of providing children and
families with a safe haven from hospital procedures.
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Other Pediatric News:
My Child’s Hospital: Stories of Hope and Healing
Pearls of Wisdom: St. John's Mercy
Nurse Creates Jewelry to Raise Funds and Awareness for
MS
 Michelle
Keating, RN, a nurse educator at the David C. Pratt at
St. John's Mercy Cancer Information Center, uses pearls
and other sparkling beads to create bracelets and
earrings to raise awareness for multiple sclerosis (MS),
a disease she has had for 29 years.
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Fellowship Ensures Nurses New to
Childbirth are Prepared to Deliver
 Annie
Killeen, RN, knows babies. The nurse in St. John's Mercy's
Labor and Delivery unit is the oldest of eight children. At
the age of 17 she shadowed a Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit nurse and witnessed three births. “From that moment
I fell in love with Labor and Delivery nursing,” she
says.
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Mercy Has Two of the Nation’s Top
Integrated Health Networks
 St.
John’s Mercy and St. John’s Health System in
Springfield, Mo., have been ranked the second and third
integrated health networks (IHNs) in the nation, based
on their ability to operate as a unified health
organization, by Modern Healthcare magazine and SDI.
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Other News:
New St. John’s Mercy Medical Group Family Medicine
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