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Many donors make tribute gifts to funds that enable us to help the most vulnerable in our community—the uninsured, the underinsured and the unemployed—to focus on treatment and healing instead of worrying about financial burdens during a hospital stay, extended treatment and recovery.   

Tribute gifts help BJC Hospice to offer compassionate, holistic end-of-life care to patients and their families.

She walks up two flights of stairs and to her cubicle on the second floor of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America in west Lawrence. On the way, Heidi Karn Barker, 25, is talking about her full-time job as a professional development coordinator. Heidi jokes about how she knows more about grass than she ever imagined she would.

Profile of the Siteman Cancer Center''s "Your Disase Risk" website (www.siteman.wustl.edu) that determines a person''s risk of diabetes, specific cancers, heart disease, osteoporosis and stroke.

Cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Ralph Damiano, of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO, spoke with StopAfib.org at Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium 2009. He shared information about new custom approaches to surgical and catheter ablation treatment of atrial fibrillation that he had presented at Boston Afib.

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