Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital announces the publication of the biographies and stories of KSB’s founding benefactors. The 208-page volume takes the reader back over one hundred years to a time before Dixon had a hospital and tells of the gift of the hospital to the city and the founders’ experiences with the diseases of that [...]
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KSB Hospital in Top 5% for Third Year in a Row
May 6, 2013 – 4:26 pm
Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital Among the Top 5% in the Nation, Recognized as one of Healthgrades 2013 Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ RecipientsDixon, IL (April 24, 2013) – Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital today announced that is has been named one of a select group of hospitals identified as providing outstanding performance in the delivery of a [...]
Recipe: Chicken Pasta Salad a l’Orange
April 26, 2013 – 6:01 pm
Prep/Total Time: 30 min. Makes: 6 servingsIngredients2 ½ cups uncooked bow tie pasta2 cups cubed cooked chicken breast2 celery ribs, thinly sliced1 can (11 ounces) mandarin oranges, drained1 can (2 ½ ounces) sliced ripe olives, drained1/3 cup fat-free plain yogurt1/3 cup reduced-fat mayonnaise¼ cup thawed orange juice concentrate1 tablespoon white vinegar2 teaspoons sugar¼ teaspoon salt¼ [...]
Top Ten Tips to Lower Blood Sugar
April 22, 2013 – 4:55 pm
1.) Test, Don’t Guess.To master your blood sugar, you have to know where it is. That means checking 2 hours after meals. Don’t let the high number get you down. At least, you’ve found it and can now address it.2.) Eat your way through the rainbow.By choosing foods from a wide range of colors, this will add [...]
Doctors’ Day: Diverse Medical Group Staff Helps KSB Excel
April 1, 2013 – 2:01 pm
Nurses have their week and so do hospitals, both of them occurring in early May. It’s only fair that doctors also get their moment in the spotlight.It comes annually on March 30, which is National Doctors’ Day. KSB celebrated the occasion two days earlier, on Thursday, March 28, because of the holiday weekend.KSB recognizes the [...]
David Yeager, DPM, Recognized in National Podiatry Newsletter
March 11, 2013 – 6:13 pm
David Yeager, DPM, of the KSB Foot & Ankle Center, was recognized in the newsletter of the American Podiatric Medical Students’ Association for his work in creating a Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Residency at KSB Hospital.“KSB Hospital has everything a student would desire in a residency. We have complete parity at our hospital. We do inpatient [...]
Laxman Iyer, MD, Talks Community Wellness on WIXN
July 11, 2012 – 5:16 pm
Laxman Iyer, MD, is a KSB Medical Group Cardiologist with an above-and-beyond commitment to community wellness. Dr. Iyer recently started the “Walk with a Doc” program in conjunction with KSB Community Wellness. Community members meet each Saturday morning at Dixon’s Lowell Park to walk with Dr. Iyer in a friendly, healthy setting.Listen to Dr. Iyer’s involvement [...]
KSB Community Wellness Partners on Heritage Walk
July 6, 2012 – 7:48 am
Community organizations collaborate to offer walking paths in downtown Dixon DIXON, Ill. – KSB Community Wellness partnered with local organizations to create four Heritage Walk routes featuring the Rock River and the historic downtown Dixon area. KSB Community Wellness, the Dixon Family YMCA, the Dixon Riverfront Commission, and the Dixon Park District collaborated to create [...]
New Procedure Helps Restore Hearing
July 3, 2012 – 8:58 am
Space-age technology that has helped the United States explore the deepest regions of the universe can now be put to use much closer to home. The technology has been incorporated into osteo-integrated cochlear implants to restore hearing in patients with conductive or mixed hearing loss or single-sided deafness. “It has a 20-year track record in [...]
New Video: This is the hospital…
June 13, 2012 – 6:02 pm
KSB Hospital is the recipient of back-to-back awards, in 2011 and 2012, for an Outstanding Patient Experience from HealthGrades. KSB Hospital ranks in the Top 5% of U.S. hospitals for the second consecutive year.
