By Jennifer Heitman, Senior Market Development, CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs, [email protected]

Sulphur Springs, Texas, August 29, 2022 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs has ONE mission: To Extend the Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ.

Mobile Athletic Training Room and Wildcat Tailgate

Thank you to all who came by our CHRISTUS tent at the first Wildcat football home game. We are so proud to have our CHRISTUS Mobile Athletic Training Room on site at sporting events. The ability to see athletic injuries, including x-rays, on site truly accelerates care for our student athletes. CHRISTUS Orthopedics and Sports Medicine –Sulphur Springs proudly supports Sulphur Springs ISD and surrounding schools offering athletic injury care for all sports athletes under the direction of Orthopedic Surgeon Christopher Meltsakos, MD.

Interventional Pain Management

One of the most common reasons that adults seek medical care today is chronic pain. Pain can affect every aspect of your life, often limiting mobility, and impacting not just your physical health but your emotional well-being.

Advancements in pain physiology research have led to an improved understanding of how to support the body’s ability to heal itself and new modalities to intervene with pain signals so that people can get back to living. Interventional pain medicine physicians take a multidisciplinary, integrated approach to treating all types of pain.

Many patients come to us suffering from back and neck pain, painful joint or muscle conditions and nerve pain in the arms and legs. Each patient goes through an evaluation and assessment that leads to a highly personalized level of care.

If you want help with your pain, call to set up an appointment with Interventional Pain Medicine physician Dr. Matthew Johnson, at the CHRISTUS Trinity Pain Management Clinic in Sulphur Springs at 903.885.1740.

FREE Athletic Injury Clinic for Student Athletes

CHRISTUS Orthopedics and Sports Medicine of Sulphur Springs offers a FREE Saturday Athletic Injury Clinic for student athletes. The athletic injury clinic will be held every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. through Nov. 12. Student athletes from 7th grade to college-age will be able to get a free exam and x-ray to determine a plan of care to treat their injury.

The clinic will be held at our CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic Orthopedics, Medical Building 5, at 103B Medical Circle in Sulphur Springs. For more information about our Sports Medicine program, or Orthopedic services, please call 903.885.6688.

Beat the Heat Challenge!

Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation patients were challenged to “Beat the Heat” and walk 5 miles or go 10,000 steps on the NUstep. Those that successfully completed the challenge were awarded with a CHRISTUS Dashboard Sunshield and other prizes.

Congratulations to those that completed the challenge: Laurie Diehl, John Desherow, Chuck Lawrence, Nancy Pena, Lou Nell Dunn and Carlton Sewell. We are proud of your dedication!

COVID Vaccine Clinics

Net Health COVID Vaccine clinic will continue to offer Adult and Pediatric vaccines and boosters at our clinic on 100 Medical Circle in Sulphur Springs every 3 weeks on the following dates: Sept. 19-23, and Oct. 17-21. You may walk in from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. No appointment is necessary.

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CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System includes CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospitals – Tyler, South Tyler, Jacksonville, Winnsboro and Sulphur Springs, the CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital – Tyler, CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Rehabilitation Hospital a partner of Encompass Health, Tyler Continue CARE Hospital at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital, a long-term acute care facility, and CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic. CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic is the area’s preferred multi-specialty medical group, with more than 400 Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers representing 36 specialties in 34 locations serving Northeast Texas across 41 counties. For more information on services available through CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System, visit christustmf.org

• Bed count – 402 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Tyler
• Bed count – 8 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – South Tyler
• Bed count – 25 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Jacksonville
• Bed Count – 96 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs
• Bed count – 25 – CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Winnsboro
• Bed count – 94 – CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Rehabilitation Hospital
• Bed count – 96 – CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Louis and Peaches Owen Heart – Tyler
• Bed count – 51 – Tyler Continue CARE Hospital at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital