Recent Articles

posted on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 The Spencer Regional Healthcare Foundation recently received a generous gift in support of cancer care provided to patients treated at the Abben Cancer Center of Spencer Hospital.

posted on Thursday, May 9, 2019 Spencer Hospital has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in mammography as the result of a recent review by the American College of Radiology (ACR), the only mammography center in the region to have achieved ACR accreditation.

posted on Wednesday, May 1, 2019 In the year 2000, measles was considered eliminated in the United States. Yet in the first four months of 2019, nearly 700 cases of measles have been confirmed in the U.S., two of which were recently confirmed in Iowa. Are you or your loved ones protected?

posted on Monday, April 22, 2019 Those who have experienced a kidney stone passing from the kidneys through a ureter into their bladder are painfully familiar with the symptoms. And, if the stone didn't pass naturally, they may have undergone a procedure at Spencer Hospital where the stone was broken up through lithotripsy to pass more easily, or actually have had the stone retrieved through a surgical procedure. Yet, what happens to the large stones that remain in the kidney?