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Norwalk Hospital

34 Maple Street
Norwalk, CT 06856

norwalkhospital.org

203-852-2000

Norwalk Hospital provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art and compassionate care to patients and their loved ones through a multidisciplinary team of leading specialists. We provide uniquely innovative health care with exceptional outcomes. Our signature services include cancer, cardiovascular, digestive, orthopedics, neurospine, women & children and emergency care. Norwalk Hospital is the hospital of choice for patients, physicians, and health care professionals, recognized for delivering innovative clinical services with compassion.

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Cancer Survivor Wants the World to Hear His Story

by Jim Gerweck   Comment

Bill Schwing isn't hesitant about letting people know he had prostate cancer. After all, anyone whose picture has been emblazoned on a billboard above I-95 can't ...

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Longtime Patient Learns to 'Dance With Cancer'

by Jim Gerweck   Comment

NORWALK, Conn. – Elizabeth April-Fritz is the most upbeat cancer patient you could ever want to meet. She says she has no choice. After her second of three cancer ...

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Tags: Neighbors, April Fritz, Norwalk Hospital, Whittingham Cancer Center

Norwalker Beats Depression Through Volunteerism

by Joseph Cole   Comment

NORWALK, Conn. -- Nine years ago, Ron Lampel was slipping into an emotional hole that he needed to climb out of. His doctor suggested he turn his attention ...

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Tags: Neighbors, Depression, Norwalk Hospital, Ron Lampel

Knitting Circle Embraces Healing at Smilow Center

by Matt Coyne and Jim Gerweck   Comment

Eighty. That’s how many healing shawls the knitting group Westport resident Ellen Lane organized has donated to Norwalk Hospital’s Smilow Family Breast Health ...

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Tags: Neighbors, Ellen Lane, knitting, Norwalk Hospital

Norwalk MD Writes About Cancer Treatment

by Jim Gerweck   Comment

Doctors are famous for having illegible handwriting, but Dr. Richard Frank has earned kudos for his writing ... of the published kind. Frank, director of cancer ...

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Tags: Neighbors

Brother Doctors Attack Obesity Through Surgery

by Jim Gerweck   Comment

Craig and Neil Floch were destined to be doctors from the day they were born. Their father, Martin, was the longtime chief of medicine at Norwalk Hospital, and ...

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Tags: Neighbors, Craig Floch, Neil Floch, Norwalk Hosptial

Pivor Leads Runners in Calf Pasture Cancer Race

by Jim Gerweck   Comment

Holly Pivor outran cancer 10 years ago. Now, she's getting others to run so the race against cancer can be won, once and for all. Pivor is the co-chair, with her ...

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Tags: Neighbors, running, Whittingham Cancer Center

Norwalk Nurse Takes Caring on the Road

by Jim Gerweck   Comment

Karen Joseph, RN, a nurse, spends most of her working hours helping people. On her vacations, she can't get out of that habit, and her busman's holidays to ...

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Tags: Wellness, Karen Joseph, Norwalk Hospital

Retired Exec Embraces Patient Care at Hospital

by Jim Gerweck   Comment

George Cammann always wanted to be a doctor. "Since I was a kid," he says. Though his path in life took him to a career with Pan American Airways, he's finally ...

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Norwalk Doctor Holds On to Old-Fashioned Ideals

by Joseph Cole   Comment

Decades before he was the director of endoscopy and a “Top Doc” at Norwalk Hospital, Dr. Dennis Meighan was a carefree kid playing on the farms around Rocky ...

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Tags: Wellness, Dr. Dennis Meighan, Norwalk Hospital, Weston

Norwalk Hospital Chief Charts Path to Perfection

by Joseph Cole   Comment

Inside Dr. Thomas Ayoub’s Norwalk Hospital office, a host of projects, plans, notes and data are written in columns on a large whiteboard. For the chief of staff, ...

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Tags: Hospitals, Wellness, Dr. Thomas Ayoub, health care reform, Norwalk Hospital

Quinlan Pushes Past Tears at SpinOdyssey

by Tom Renner    Comment

Joyce Quinlan will ride in the SpinOdyssey for the fifth time Sunday. She hasn’t participated in one yet without tears. She doesn’t expect anything different this ...

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Tags: Sports, Intensity Fitness and Tennis, Joyce Quinlan, Norwalk Hospital, SpinOdyssey ...

Doctor Pushes Heart Protocol To Save Lives Faster

by Joseph Cole   Comment

When a heart attack strikes, the chances of irreparable damage increase by the minute. Thanks to a program championed by Dr. Charles Augenbraun, patients can ...

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Tags: Wellness, Dr. Charles Augenbraun, health, Heart, Norwalk Hospital

From Babies to Bones

by Vira Mamchur Schwartz   Comment

The phrase, “I've fallen and I can’t get up” has fueled the jokes of late night comedians for years. But it’s no joke for Dr. Eva Olah, a 19-year veteran of ...

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Norwalk Hospital Duo Trims the Fat

by Joseph Cole   Comment

The usual round of resolutions to drop weight and live healthier gets under way as the New Year begins. Peter McKnight and Tamara Swett of Norwalk Hospital's ...

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Tags: Hospitals, Wellness, Diet, health, Norwalk Hospital, Weightloss, Wellness

Breast Cancer Also Threatens Men

by Julie Curtis   Comments (1)

Those ubiquitous pink ribbons -- particularly visible during October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month -- don't necessarily tell the whole story. Men also suffer ...

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Tags: Wellness, breast cancer, Dr. Richard Zelkowitz, male breast cancer, Norwalk Hospital

Da Vinci Reinvents Surgery

by Julie Curtis   Comment

If da Vinci is to surgery what he was to art, then medicine is about to experience a renaissance. But in this case, da Vinci is a robotic surgery system and its ...

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Tags: Wellness, Health and Wellness, Norwalk Hospital, prostate cancer ...