UH launches Comprehensive Pain Center in Parma
Dr. Kutaiba Tabbaa, medical director of the Comprehensive Pain Center at UH Parma
University Hospitals is debuting a Comprehensive Pain Center, building on existing treatment for chronic pain management and expanding offerings.
Offering physical and occupational therapy, behavioral health and addiction services, the new center will be located at UH Parma Medical Center, adding to the hospital s proven interventional pain management program, according to a news release. UH Parma also was one of the first launch sites for Thrive ED, a peer support program linking emergency department patients to substance abuse treatments.
The new multi-disciplinary center adds in the UH Connor Integrative Health Network, offering chiropractic care, lifestyle and integrative health medical consults, massage therapy and guided meditation. It complements UH s approach to pain management and builds on current options to manage chronic pain, such as inject
RAVENNA An Ohio man who served nearly 12 years in prison for dousing his wife in kerosene and threatening to set her on fire, is now charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of a relative of another woman he had attacked last September.
Patrick M. Boggs, 51, of Ravenna, was free on bond after pleading guilty March 1 to domestic violence involving the second woman.
Ravenna Police Capt. Jake Smallfield said Boggs stabbed a relative of the second woman in the neck and chest after breaking into the relative s apartment early Tuesday morning.
Police said Boggs was identified by the victim and was arrested at about 11 a.m. Tuesday by an off-duty officer at a discount store in Ravenna. He is being held in the Portage County Jail.
Dr. Francoise Adan
University Hospitals has created an executive position, chief whole health and well-being officer, to direct evidence-informed integrative health strategies to support patients well-being, going beyond disease management to include prevention and chronic disease reversal.
UH has appointed Dr. Francoise Adan to the new role, the creation of which signals a paradigm shift whereby patient care will emphasize prevention, lifestyle change, and disease reversal rather than merely disease treatment, which will further promote the health care value equation, according to a news release.
Adan, who is trained in psychiatry and is board certified in holistic and integrative medicine, specializes in stress management, work/life balance and the mind/body/spirit connection.
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