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Sylvia Miller, 86, Works Out Three Times a Week – And it May Have Recently Saved Her Life
March 7, 2017
Brenda-Rich Pike, exercise physiologist (left) and Carol Artiaco, RN (right) with Sylvia Miller of Brooklyn, CT at Day Kimball Hospital's Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation medically-supervised exercise...
Day Kimball Hospital Welcomes Its First Baby of the New Year
January 4, 2017
Day Kimball Hospital welcomed its first baby of 2017 on Tuesday, January 3. Alayna Josephine Stone was born at 12:23 p.m. and weighed in at eight pounds, 15 ounces. Mom Robyn Stone of Danielson, who...
What Matters Most in a Medical Emergency? This Couple's Experience Sums it Up.
September 22, 2016
Recently, 73 year-old Norman Baker of Ashford, CT, experienced a medical emergency that could have easily taken his life. Today, he and his wife, Rose, are at their doctor’s office for Norman’s...
Bouncing Back from a Heart Attack: How One Man’s Coworkers Changed His Life
September 9, 2016
When Bob Kovaleski joined the staff at Day Kimball Healthcare more than two years ago he had just made a career change and was looking for a new lease on life. He didn’t know then the extent to which...
Getting Back to Being Me - Stephen's Story
August 24, 2015
Stephen Lewis spent the majority of the winter of 2015 shoveling his driveway. Like many in the Putnam, CT area, he shoveled for hours in the frigid weather after repeated snowstorms. At first the...
This Mother’s Day Janice Jastrzebski Marks Two Years of “Kicking Cancer’s Ass” with Striking Mastectomy Photos
May 10, 2015
Today Janice Jastrzebski is celebrating an important milestone. On this day two years ago, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Seven days later she had a modified radical mastectomy. To mark...
Steven Krzywda of Danielson: How an Army of One Cured My Debilitating Back Pain
May 8, 2015
Steven Krzywda is a lifetime resident of Northeast Connecticut with an obvious love for the Quiet Corner. He was born at Day Kimball Hospital, grew up in Danielson, and is now an English professor at...
One Family, One Year, One Incredible Chain of Events
March 31, 2015
2013 is a year that David and Christine Chenail of Brooklyn, CT will never forget.  Theirs is a story that makes people gape and say, “What are the odds?!” But it wasn’t a question they themselves...
Putnam Resident, New Mom Mallory Murray: When Things Are Uncertain, Generations of Care and Community Mean a Lot
February 27, 2015
Mallory Murray has lived in Northeast Connecticut all her life, born and raised in Putnam. And like so many who call this little "quiet corner" of the world home, Murray says the generational ties...
Taking Care: After a Lifetime Caring for Others, Frank Babcock Lets HomeCare Return the Favor
January 23, 2015
Frank Babcock of Danielson, CT has taken care of many people throughout his life. He and his wife Rita cared for eight foster children, raising four of them as their own. And near the end of their 56...
A Letter to Cancer, at the End of my Battle
October 28, 2014
Janice Jastrzebski battled breast cancer at Day Kimball Hospital for a year-and-a-half. And she won! Over the course of her 17 months of treatment, Janice had chemotherapy every Wednesday. And every...
At 50, I got a Harley. At 60, I kicked cancer's ass. I can't wait to see what I do at 70.
October 3, 2014
Janice Jastrzebski (center) in the photo booth at DKH's 2014 Cancer Survivorship Day, with her oncology nurse Sharon (top right), other members of her cancer care team, and family. ...