A Firelands Regional Health System Blog

After you work with your cardiologist to identify your risk factors for heart disease, it's important to make changes to your lifestyle so you can live a healthier, longer life. Find tips from Firelands here.

When something flares up, how do you know when to go to urgent care or the family doctor, or if it’s serious enough to go to the nearest ER? Find out.

If there’s one person who understands the definition of “life-changing”, it’s Truc Bui. Read about his incredible journey from being a patient at Firelands, to landing a hospital job.

Speech-Language Pathologists (SLP) play an important role in diagnosis and treatment of feeding and swallowing problems in kids of all ages. Difficulty with feeding can be demonstrated in many ways and look differently from child to child.

Following a stroke, early management and rehabilitation through a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals is essential for optimal recovery. See how they all play a part in stroke rehab.

Are you wondering, 'do I have anxiety?' Anxiety happens when something activates your body's fight or flight response – it often happens suddenly and puts your body on high alert.

Snoring is often harmless, but with sleep apnea patient stories like Martin's, it’s a sign of a more dangerous health problem. Read about Martin's patient experience at Firelands.

“Firelands Regional Medical Center is so welcoming, and so unlike the medical centers in a big city, where you are just a number.” Ted says. See how Firelands fixed Ted's severe back pain.

With the continuing rise in the age of our population, the number of people with low vision has increased substantially. In response to this growing need, Firelands Regional Medical Center recently established a rehabilitation program for vision impairment.

NAS is when the baby is getting an addictive substance, such as opioids, from the mom and is going through withdrawal symptoms after birth. Hugging Helpers volunteers can help.

Center at Firelands Regional Medical now offers radiation cancer treatment using the Elekta Linear Accelerator. See more.

Do you have a picky eater on your hands? For some children, pediatric occupational therapy can help. See what Allison Blakely, an OT at Firelands Children's S.P.O.T., says.