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LRH Named Top Rural and Community Hospital for Second Year in a Row

Lakes Regional Healthcare was recently named one of the top 20 rural and community hospitals in the country by the National Rural Health Association based on an evaluation

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Roses Just Because to Benefit Emergency Services

Lakes Regional Healthcare Foundation announces its annual fundraiser, Roses Just Because, has begun. They have teamed up with Ferguson’s Floral and Garden Center again to host the fundraiser.

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Free HIV and Hepatitis C Testing Clinic on March 8

Representatives from Siouxland Community Health will be providing free, confidential HIV and Hepatitis C testing at Lakes Regional Healthcare’s Community Health Center at 1003 21st Street in Milford

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LRH Recognized as a 2022 Top 100 Rural and Community Hospital

Lakes Regional Healthcare has been named one of the Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals in the United States for the fourth year in a row by The

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Getting a Flu Shot Important During COVID-19

Every year Lakes Regional Healthcare and Dickinson County Public Health (DCPH) encourage people to get the annual influenza vaccination, or “flu shot,” and this year it’s even more

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LRH Offers Free Guidance to Medicare Recipients

It can cost you money not to review your Medicare Part D drug coverage annually. In one hour a Senior Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) counselor can complete

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Free Car Seat Safety Checks on Thursday, September 23

Motor vehicle crashes are the number one cause of unintentional death in children. Also, 60 percent of car crashes involving children occur 10 minutes or less from home.

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Process Underway to Determine Community’s Health Needs

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010 and places a significant focus on community-based prevention, requiring nonprofit hospitals such as Lakes Regional Healthcare (LRH)

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Dr. Whitney Nelson Joining Lakes Regional Family Medicine

Whitney Nelson, D.O., a family medicine physician joining Lakes Regional Family Medicine, will begin seeing patients on September 7, 2021. Dr. Nelson recently moved to the lakes region

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CDC Encourages Third COVID-19 Vaccine for Those Who Are Immunocompromised

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently recommended that people who are moderately to severely immunocompromised receive an additional dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. According

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