Mercy Community Education Presents: Stroke Happens … Don’t Let It

     Many people do not know that the third 
leading cause of adult disability is stroke.  
They also often do not know that 80% of strokes 
are preventable. To find out more about risk 
factors, warning signs, and how you can prevent 
stroke, please join Brent Crabtree, MD, on 
Thursday, May 17, from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. at Mercy 
Medical Center, Conference Rooms A/B, for a 
special community presentation. 
   Mercy Community Education sessions are free 
and open to the community. For more information, 
please call Mercy Communication at 541-375-
6000.   Visit us at www.mercyrose.org and follow 
us on facebook at 
www.facebook.com/mercymedicalroseburg.

Mercy’s Shaw Heart and Vascular Center Receives Shaw Foundation Grant

      The Walden W. and Jean Young Shaw 
Foundation, a Chicago-based organization with a 
local connection, recently awarded a generous 
grant to Mercy’s Shaw Heart and Vascular Center 
to purchase new medical equipment that will 
further enhance heart care services in our 
community.  
Mercy’s Shaw and Vascular Center, named after 
the Shaw Foundation, was first brought to the 
attention of the foundation by one of its board 
members, Gordy Iler, a Roseburg resident who 
also serves on the board of the Mercy Foundation 
for nine years.  
The heart center will used the Shaw’s gift to 
purchase a portable and compact Ultrasound 
system that offers rapid bedside cardiac 
evaluations, venous mapping and reflux studies.  
This system will also provide superb high-
resolution imaging during demanding 
interventional procedures.
Ultrasound imaging is a noninvasive medical test 
that helps physicians diagnose and treat medical 
conditions.  It involves exposing part of the 
body to high-frequency sound waves to produce 
pictures of the inside of the body. Because 
ultrasound images are captured in real-time, 
they can show the structure and movement of the 
body's internal organs, as well as blood flowing 
through blood vessels.
According to Shaw Heart and Vascular Director 
Connie Kinman, “Over the years the Shaw 
Foundation has been so incredibly generous and 
supportive. It’s truly because of their ongoing 
financial support that we have such excellent 
heart services locally. We are very pleased to 
be able to enhance our cardiac services with 
this generous gift.”
For additional information, please call Kathleen 
Nickel at 541- 677-2423.  
For more information about Mercy’s Shaw Heart 
and Vascular Center visit: 
http://www.shawheart.com/

 

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