Press Releases

March 8,2010
Foundation Purchases Digital Mammography for Berger
Women will have greater access to high-tech digital mammograms in Pickaway County thanks to the Berger Health Foundation.

March 5,2010
Brown Memorial and Berger Work Together
Berger Health System recently established a partnership with Brown Memorial to provide business operations on an as needed basis.

February 15,2010
New Appointees Join Circle of Caring Council
Circle of Caring is pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Kritsch, DeLynn Peters, Josh Pritchard, and Stuart Sharpnack to a three-year term on the Circle of Caring-Faith in Action Council.

January 26,2010
Congratulations Employees of the Year 2009!
Sharon Cole, Matthew Esker and Brent Short

January 25,2010
Ohio Nurse Anesthetists Never Miss a Beat while providing anesthesia
More than 1,500 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) from Ohio and thousands from across the country will tell America We Never Miss a Beat as they celebrate the 11th annual National Nurse Anesthetist Week celebration, January 24-30, 2010.

January 20,2010
Berger Hospital Resumes Normal Visitation Policy
Effective Monday, January 25, Berger Hospital will reinstate its normal visitation policy after having implemented temporary restrictions due to the H1N1 flu virus.

January 13,2010
Family Physicians Find New Homes
Mount Carmel Health Providers recently announced that its Circleville primary care practice would relocate to its Canal Winchester location in March 2010. Family practice physicians at this Circleville Morris Rd. office include Drs. Nancy Alkire, Fred Figueroa, Kevin Frank, and Anne Prosperi. Dr. Michael Geron retired from this group in mid 2009. The good news for Circleville residents is that three of these physicians are joining other local practices, and will continue to care for their established patients as well as new patients.

January 4,2010
Berger's first baby is new parents' miracle
Heading into their ninth year of marriage, Clay and Aimee Sparks had nearly given up hope of ever children. All that changed Sunday, though, when Aimee, who suffers from poly-cystic ovarian syndrome, gave birth to the couple's "miracle baby."

The Berger Hospice team shared holiday greetings with their patients over the Christmas season when they went caroling at patients' homes and local skilled nursing facilities.

Kristy Blum. M.D., family practitioner, recently joined Pickaway Health Services' physician group and will begin seeing patients at the Ashville office on January 4. The office is located at 299 W. Main St., Ashville.