Screening for prostate cancer could help save lives

Screening for prostate cancer could help save lives

Prostate cancer typically doesn’t show symptoms until it has progressed in the later stages, which is why it’s important to get screened. “Prostate cancer affects one out of eight men in the U.S. 300,000 cases are diagnosed in the U.S. each year, and there can be up...
Screening for prostate cancer could help save lives

Mourning & Meaning happening at CCMH

Processing the death of a loved one is hard. One thing that can help people is a grief group, but as Comanche County Memorial Hospital’s Chaplain Paul Gore said, grief groups are not utilized as much as they should be. “They’re sorta like put over here in the corner,”...
Screening for prostate cancer could help save lives

What to do when experiencing urinary incontinence

Urinary incontinence is something that is not talked about a lot but it impacts millions of people. The National Association for Continence said more than 25 million adult Americans experience some form of urinary incontinence. Dr. Orrenzo Snyder, a Urologist at...
Screening for prostate cancer could help save lives

CCMH partners with SWOSU for clinical rotations

Students going to Southwestern Oklahoma State University can now do their clinical rotations at Comanche County Memorial Hospital after the hospital and university recently signed an agreement. Melissa Alvillar, the chief nursing officer at CCMH, said this gives those...