Harlingen – Cheri Horkman enjoys improving the lives of others. Whether it is through education or speech therapy, she is busy working with people, making sure they are living better lives.

Harlingen – Harlingen Medical Center (HMC), one of the leading cardiovascular care hospitals in South Texas, is expanding its service lines to include specialized care in orthopaedics. The Orthopaedic Center at Harlingen Medical Center now offers a full range of orthopaedic services to help relieve pain and restore activity to the lifestyles of patients at every stage of their lives. The new center comes as Harlingen Medical Center hosts a special Doc Talks Lecture featuring one of the leading orthopaedic specialists in the Rio Grande Valley, Dr. Jose A. Cobos. The lecture is scheduled for August 26, 2010 at 6:00 p.m., at the HMC Medical Office Building Conference Room, located at 5505 S. Expressway 77 in Harlingen.

Harlingen – He has a love for the game of football that began when he was a young boy. Daniel J. Ramirez played in peewee football, played in his middle school football team, and as a sophomore played in the varsity football team at Harlingen High School, and is now a proud Harlingen Cardinal. But, a leg injury while playing at a school basketball game made him believe he was about to lose his chances of ever playing football again. That is, until he met with Orthopaedic Specialist, Dr. Jose A. Cobos.

Harlingen – Are you, or someone you know, a diabetic? If you answered “yes,” then the Wound Healing Center at Harlingen Medical Center has a special offer for you. The Wound Healing Center at Harlingen Medical Center now offers Diabetes Education Lectures in conjunction with its monthly Diabetic Foot Clinics. The lectures are for those who suffer from the disease, those who care for them, and those who simply need to learn more about the disease. The first class is scheduled for August 31, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. at the Harlingen Medical Center Medical Office Building Conference Room, located at 5505 S. Expressway 77, in Harlingen.

Harlingen – They are not your typical teenagers. Instead of spending their summer break hanging out with friends, going to the mall, and going to the movies, a group of Rio Grande Valley high school students offered their time and energy to the Volunteer Services program at Harlingen Medical Center. In just two-and-a-half-months, nearly two dozen student volunteers donated more than a thousand hours of service and brought countless of smiles to hospital, staff, guests, and patients.

Harlingen Medical Center (HMC), the award-winning hospital and nationally recognized leader in cardiovascular care, will launch a month-long series of events to bring awareness to the deadliest disease affecting Americans today, cardiovascular disease. The events, which include a wellness expo, a series of health education lectures, and stroke and heart disease prevention screenings, will be held at HMC, located at 5501 S. Expressway 77 in Harlingen, during the month of February, American Heart Month.

Harlingen Medical Center (HMC) has earned the 2009 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks Award, for a second consecutive year, for its excellence in cardiovascular care. This accolade is presented to HMC for its ability to set the highest national performance levels for both clinical and managerial excellence, and is one of three community hospitals in the State of Texas and one of 30 in the United States, to do this.

Harlingen Medical Center (HMC), one of the leading Rio Grande Valley hospitals in cardiovascular care, will celebrate its sixth anniversary October 9, 2008! The 112-bed hospital will mark the special event by hosting the “Harlingen Medical Center Celebrates Six Years of Health & Wellness Fair” at its main lobby, between hours of 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. The fair will showcase free health screenings, wellness services, and health education seminars; food and refreshments.

Did you know that you may be a victim of heart disease, right now, and not even know it? It’s true. Heart disease is one of the few illnesses that ignite its consequences in an instant and without warning. The disease spawns everything from heart attack and stroke to congenital heart disease and peripheral artery disease. One of the keys to beating heart disease, or at least taming it, is preventative care. And, the HeartSaver CT Scan at Harlingen Medical Center can offer you that for only $50.

Congestive Heart Failure is a condition that claims the lives of hundreds of Americans each year without warning. But, Harlingen Medical Center (HMC) is looking to change that by shedding light on the potentially fatal condition when it hosts the first of its Doc Talks 2008 Summer Lecture Series, July 8, 2008 at the MOB Conference Room, located at 5501 N. Expressway 77. The guest speaker who will tackle this topic at the lecture is Dr. Luis E. Zepeda, Family Practice Physician of Harlingen.