Before developing Type 2 diabetes, most people live with a condition called “prediabetes,” often for an extended period of time. Prediabetes means that blood-sugar levels are too high to be measured as healthy, but they’re not yet high enough to be considered diabetes. Prediabetes is extremely common in the United States. According to the Centers [...]

This year there are three vaccines to help keep you and your loved ones safer from the triad of dangerous respiratory viruses that start spreading during the colder months—influenza, COVID and RSV. Heath Perdue is a Registered Nurse and Infection Preventionist for Prowers Medical Center. It’s his job to help keep the Lamar-area community as protected [...]

If you’re a woman between the ages of 18 and 44, scheduling your annual check-up should be on the top of your to-do list, said Prowers Medical Center Family Nurse Practitioner Kelli Bitner. Why? “It’s important for female patients to have an annual wellness exam to identify health issues that may not have surfaced yet,” [...]

Did you know that women who have regular mammograms are more likely to have breast cancer detected sooner, are less likely to need aggressive treatments like mastectomy and chemotherapy, and are more likely to be cured if they do develop breast cancer? Prowers Medical Center offers screening and diagnostic mammograms, including 3D mammography—the imaging method [...]

The Prowers Medical Center pharmacy is a hospital pharmacy. That means it only fills medication orders for patients being cared for on-premises. It may operate behind the scenes, but it’s a busy place. Led by Director of Pharmacy Robin Thacker and including Clinical Pharmacist Ray Luna and two Certified Pharmacy Technicians—Katie Kurtz and Bryana Carter—the [...]