Thursday, October 1, 2026
Mercy Medical Center is now offering a comprehensive, personalized Travel Medicine Service to address the needs of international business and leisure travelers, providing consultations and vaccinations for safe and enjoyable journeys.
The new program serves both individuals and travel groups, providing a thorough medical history assessment, combined with an itinerary analysis, to determine appropriate immunizations and other preventive measures based on travel destination, length of stay and planned activities.
Travel Service consultations include an in depth review of medical history and travel plans, providing expert counseling on minimizing travel health risks through appropriate vaccinations and other preventive measures.
Its staff utilizes the most current travel disease database, administers required and recommended vaccinations, provides an International Certificate of Vaccination, and offers necessary prescriptions for preventive medications.
The complete range of vaccinations available to meeting international travel requirements or recommendations includes yellow fever, hepatitis, typhoid, polio, meningitis, rabies, varicella and Japanese encephalitis, as well as prescriptions for malaria prevention and treatment of traveler’s diarrhea.
The service is available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For appointments or information, call 516-62MERCY.
Cancer survivors celebrate life at MMC Medical Center
Mercy Medical Center marked National Cancer Survivors Day with its second annual gathering of former cancer patients and their families, drawing more than 125 attendees to attest to the fact that life after a cancer diagnosis can be meaningful and productive.
The June 3 outdoor luncheon in the hospital’s Garden of Caring included a keynote address by seven-year breast cancer survivor Maureen Hogan Lutz, who chronicled her cancer treatment in a book called “Diamonds in the Snow: Rescuing the Senses in the Aftermath of Breast Cancer,” and then founded Necessities, Inc., a non-profit organization that supports women battling breast cancer with the Necessities Bag, a tote filled with information and supplies to help manage surgery and recovery from a mastectomy.
The event also spotlighted Mercy’s Community Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Program, which has received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons.
Observed each year on the first Sunday in June, National Cancer Survivors Day provides an opportunity for the nation’s estimated 12 million cancer survivors to join with family, friends and cancer-care medical professionals in a celebration of life and to educate the public on the issues of cancer survivorship to better the quality of life for cancer survivors.
