Oswego Health

Endocrinologist Francis Clifford Arce, MD, will discuss thyroid disorder management and disease at 6 p.m. November 14 in the JPC conference room of the Oswego Health Services Center, which is adjacent to Oswego Hospital.

Members of the Oswego Players, a local theatrical group which is celebrating its 75th anniversary, have donated proceeds from their recent performances of Death in the OR to a fund that honors an exceptional Oswego Hospital nurse each year.

Area ghosts, goblins and action figures can have their candy x-rayed on Halloween night by Oswego Health medical imaging personnel. Three Oswego Health locations will be x-raying candy this year.

Oswego Hospital will host a pre-Halloween American Red Cross blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. October 30 in the healthcare facility’s lower level conference room. Members of the public and hospital employees are encouraged to donate a pint of blood during the drive.

Newborn babies at Oswego Hospital will be kept warm this fall and winter with hats made by the Springside at Seneca Hill knitters club. Members of the club meet regularly to complete a variety of knitting projects that they donate to various organizations.

Oswego Hospital now has something in common with the Disney Company and the St. Regis in Cairo, Egypt; the renowned architect Michael Graves. This past June, the Stryker Company, a maker of medical equipment and the New York City-based architect, unveiled a redesigned transport chair.