Toy Safety Guide
Most injuries from toys are minor cuts, scrapes and bruises. However, toys can cause serious injury or even death. Here are tips to help you choose safe and appropriate toys for your child...
Thank You Leadville ELKS!
St. Vincent Health and Lake County boast having the only Pediatric Occupational Therapy service in the central mountain region. This service was opened in 2021. Medical providers from Lake, Chaffee, Eagle, and Summit Counties – and beyond, refer their patients to St. Vincent Health and Occupational Therapist, Rachel Griffin, OTD, OTR/L, ATP....
Pediatric OT helps the Gallegos family
Cameron is learning important life skills, with great success, from occupational therapist Rachel Griffin. ...
Celebrate a safe Christmas
The American Academy of Pediatrics reminds us that each year, thousands of toddlers and children are injured by toys. Most injuries from toys are minor cuts, scrapes and bruises. However, toys can cause serious injury or even death. Here are tips to help you choose safe and appropriate toys for your child: Read the label. Warning labels give important information about how to use a toy and what ages the toy...
Healthcare Hospitality in Action
The tagline for St. Vincent Health is "Where caring and community meet". In this story told by our foundation director Steve Mercado, he shares how is own father was treated as if he were family....
Vaccination is Still the Best Defense Against COVID-19!
Haven't gotten around to getting the vaccine yet? There are several upcoming COVID vaccine clinics offered locally and regionally, for people ages 12 and up. ...
Longstanding & New Primary Care Providers to staff the New St. Vincent Family Health Center
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dr. Lisa Zwerdlinger, a family medicine provider in Lake County for 23 years and owner of Rocky Mountain Family Practice (RMFP) for 16 years, is gifting her family medicine practice to St. Vincent Health. Dr. Zwerdlinger also serves as a senior staff member at St. Vincent Health (SVH), as Chief Medical Officer and hospitalist. With this move, St. Vincent Medical Clinic and RMFP will merge on June 1, 2021, and...
Calling All Artists!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Consider the NEW St. Vincent Health and its blank and beautiful walls a canvas for your artwork. Read on for details here: SVH Seeking Artists [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...
St. Vincent’s Brand Refresh Roll-Out
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] LETTER FROM THE INTERIM CEO, CORBIN LOGAN “The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson If health is indeed wealth, the Sisters of Charity who founded St. Vincent Hospital in 1879 to care for fortune-seeking miners were unquestionably the thought leaders of the day. Since then, St. Vincent has been a constant in Leadville and Lake County. Its historic roots continue to shape the organization today. Now we’re poised to open the...
Meet Jeremiah Grantham – NRP, Ambulance Services Director
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Paramedic Jeremiah Grantham leads the team prepared to respond to 911 calls and emergencies 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in the 400-square-mile Lake County service area. He is uniquely qualified to run Ambulances Services, with his commitment to patient-centered care, wilderness skills, and Nationally Registered Paramedic (NRP) accreditation—the highest level of certification available to a paramedic. Jeremiah is accomplished in advanced life support, can administer a range of medications...
