Home Help is Close to Home From the CEO Quality Improvement Initiative Saves Lives New Cancer Therapy Helps Improve Quality of Life Doctors Prescribe Books for Young Children Keeping Your Kids Healthy ARMA Leads the Way to Better Health Summer Lecture Series Health Choices Medical Staff at ARMC We Heal Wounds! Have Quality of Life! Accidents Happen Past Issues			Bob Meares was working in his yard on Labor Day in 2007 when he started feeling tightness in his chest. The 58-year-old Aiken resident knew right away what was happening to him. "I had a heart attack several years ago so I was pretty sure I was having another one," he said. "I called 911 immediately." New Cancer Therapy An innovative therapy that can help improve the quality of life for cancer patients is now available at Aiken Regional Medical Centers' (ARMC) Radiology Department. Keeping Your Kids Healthy Most parents know that providing children with appropriate vitamins and minerals is vital to keeping them healthy, but knowing what and how much is not always so easy. From the CEO This very special issue of Quality of Life highlights innovative services we provide to our patients, and features some of the things we do to make our community a better place. ARMA Leads the Way to Better Health The doctors, nurses and employees at Aiken Regional Medical Centers (ARMC) work hard to provide exceptional inpatient and outpatient services. Doctors Prescribe Books for Young Children Kids who receive care at Palmetto Pediatrics, the pediatric clinic at Aiken Regional Medical Centers (ARMC), are finding out that reading is fun! P.O. Drawer 1117 Aiken, SC 29802