Patient Care

The rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons that surround the shoulder joint, keeping the head of your upper arm bone firmly in the shallow shoulder socket. This provides the ability to [...]

Day-to-day living is never quite as easy as we might like it to be. There are the good days when things occur with ease, when you hit the green lights driving to work, receive a spontaneous [...]

Summit Medical Center was recently recognized for their excellence in patient satisfaction scores among hospitals across the nation. At its annual Centers of Excellence Award Ceremony in Las [...]

There are certain phrases that strike a chord for many of us. One of these being the squeaky wheel gets the grease. A quick rewind of the last 24-hours can produce many squeaky-wheel examples [...]

Immunizations, annual checkups and regular physicals are some of the many ways to give a young child the tools needed for growth and lifelong health. But there’s one element of health that often [...]

Once the holidays are over, it’s time to focus on getting back to a new normal. Depending on your current role this could mean heading back to school or returning to work. With no major holidays [...]

Everyone from the Honey Nut Cheerios bee to the actors playing a doctor on TV talk about the importance of heart health, but what does heart health actually mean? For many of us, the heart is a [...]

Summit Medical Center, a certified Pink Ribbon Facility™, was recently awarded a three-year term of accreditation in mammography after the American College of Radiology (ACR) reviewed its [...]

As a father of five, Summit Medical Center anesthesiologist Matt Swan, MD, is sympathetic to the stress and anxiety every parent experiences when their child is about to be taken to surgery. That [...]

Summit Medical Center CEO Dennis Jack recently announced the hospital received full licensing from the state and, since that time, has officially opened its doors and successfully hosted its [...]