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• Windber Medical Center Uses Art To Inspire Healing: Volunteers Paint Mural For Patients
  Windber Medical Center practitioners use the Planetree way of life, meaning hospitals combine the best of modern technological medicine with things like art, entertainment and human touch to care for patients. Officials said the hospital already has gardens and paintings inside the building, but now it's time to paint the blank walls outside of patient windows. Volunteers met at Windber Medical Center on Saturday to start painting a mural of an elaborate garden.
• Windber Medical Center adds pelvic therapy
  Sara DelSignore, a physical therapist at Windber Medical Center (WMC), knows that few women are aware of pelvic floor dysfunction and the discomfort it creates. She also knows that just as few women realize that their issues are muscular in nature and can be treated rather simply through physical therapy.
• Windber Medical Center recognized by ASMBS for excellence in weight loss surgery
  Windber Medical Center and Dr. Kim R. Marley recently announced that they have been named an American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence. The ASMBS BSCOE designation recognizes surgical programs with a demonstrated track record of favorable outcomes in bariatric surgery. Marley is the Bariatric Medical Director at Windber Medical Center.
• Easing ER waits: Windber's $6.5M expansion set to begin next year
  Construction of a new, $6.5 million emergency department is expected to begin next year at Windber Medical Center. Barbara Cliff, Windber Medical Center's president and chief executive officer, said hospital staff have been able to keep wait times relatively short for emergency visits. "We monitor that very closely," Cliff said, adding that the current emergency-room wait is posted on the home page of the hospital's Web site, www.windbercare.org.
• 10th annual HealthStyles Race to be held
  The 10th annual HealthStyles Race will be held at Windber Medical Center, Somerset Avenue in Windber, beginning at 9 a.m. Sept. 4. Along with the 5K Race and 1.5 Mile Fun Walk, planners added a 10K race to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the event.
• Laparoscopic surgery option for women facing hysterectomy
  Laparoscopic surgery has benefitted many. Now, women facing hysterectomy - the removal of their uterus - may be able to have the surgery done laparoscopically. "Laparoscopic hysterectomy is an excellent choice," said Dr. Erin Hott, OB/GYN surgeon at Windber Medical Center.
• Book details struggles against cancer
  A book designed to tell the stories of those who battled breast cancer and provide inspiration for those still battling the disease was released Thursday at the Windber Research Institute. More than 40 people joined survivors, their families and local dignitaries like Joyce Murtha for a book signing of Journeys: Inspirational Stories of Courage and Strength.
• The Leadership Journey of Patient-Centered Care
  Windber Medical Center (WMC) is a 54-bed Designated Planetree Patient-Centered Hospital in western Pennsylvania. We are the only Planetree hospital in Pennsylvania and one of only ten hospitals in the world to have achieved designation status, which can be viewed as the gold standard of patient-centered care. Guided by the core components of the Planetree philosophy, patient-centered care is not something we do, but rather something we are. The very culture of our acute care hospital embraces the concept that the patient is central to his or her own care, and the family is a component of that unit of care. Providing care the way we believe it should be provided extends to all who enter our doors.
• Barbara Cliff Appointed Examiner for 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
  Barbara Cliff, president and CEO of Windber Medical Center located in Windber, PA, has been appointed by Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to the 2010 Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The Award, created by public law in 1987, is the highest level of national recognition for performance excellence that a U.S. organization can receive.
• Surgery improves odds of weight-loss success
  Weight-loss surgery changed Tammy Miller's life. I am happy with myself, the Friedens woman said. I can buy clothes off the rack; I can cross my legs; I feel more normal. Laproscopic band surgery by Dr. Kim R. Marley at Windber Medical Center helped Miller lose 140 pounds since August 2008.