Press releases and Feature stories | St. Maarten Medical Center

The World Health Organization has set World Hepatitis Day as one of only 4 official disease-specific world health days, to be celebrated each year on July 28th. “Viral hepatitis can be prevented. It is up to all of us to act,” (WHO). That is why St. Maarten Medical Center has joined with millions across the world to take part in raising awareness about viral hepatitis.

Manager Quality and Safety talks about improving quality and safety in SMMC.

Some may call her a number, a statistic, that one individual in every 750 persons who is born with only one kidney. But Mary Ettenat calls herself a blessing. She enjoys life, happy to be in good health after getting a better quality of life with a kidney transplant

A few weeks before total kidney failure and her birthday, Teresita Dalson Wilson got her best birthday gift ever, a kidney from her son. With a kidney transplant the 60 year old wife and mother of three received a better quality of life.

As a new or prospective father, you are probably somewhat familiar with the benefits of breastfeeding for mom and baby, but did you ever stop to think about what is in it for you?