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MedStar Home Health Services At MedStar Home Health Services, our motto is "Providing 'STAR' service with Compassion, Dedication Louis County and the neighboring counties.

As the area’s most trusted provider of home health care services, our primary focus is on building long lasting, meaningful relationships with our clients. With over 15 years of experience in home health care, we specialize in providing daily assistance for physically disabled individuals, veterans and senior citizens throughout St. We know that giving care to people requires more than just treat

ing their body, but bonding with them. We care for our clients holistically and befriend them, so our time together is something that they always look forward to. Our unique approach to care and the strong level of commitment we have to our consumers allows us to meet their day-to-day and long-term needs, all while improving their quality of life. Whether our client needs basic tasks done around the house, or needs more holistic, in-depth care, you can count on the team at MedStar Home Health Services to provide “Star” service with compassion, dedication and integrity. Rest easy knowing that your loved one is being properly cared for when they work with MedStar Home Health Services. At MedStar, we strive to create a comfortable environment where your loved one is able to maintain their independence while living safely in their own home. Call us at (314) 782-7311 or visit us online to learn more today.

Thank you for all that you do.  This week, we honor your kindness, selflessness and giving spirit.  Thanks!!!
05/06/2025

Thank you for all that you do. This week, we honor your kindness, selflessness and giving spirit. Thanks!!!

In honor of Black History Month, MedStar Home Health Services is spotlighting African American pioneers in Medicine.  SO...
02/26/2025

In honor of Black History Month, MedStar Home Health Services is spotlighting African American pioneers in Medicine.

SOLOMON CARTER FULLER (1872 – 1953)
The first African American Psychiatrist

He was an early 20th-century psychiatrist, researcher, and medical educator was born on August 11, 1872, in Monrovia, Liberia. His parents were Americo-Liberians. He also performed pioneering work with neuropathologist, Alois Alzheimer conducting considerable research concerning degenerative diseases of the brain, such as dementia.

Solomon’s grandfather was a Virginia slave who bought his and his wife’s freedom The grandparents emigrated to Liberia in 1852 to help establish a settlement of African Americans.

Fuller showed an interest in medicine, especially since his grandparents were medical missionaries in Liberia. In 1889, Solomon migrated to the United States to attend Livingstone College in North Carolina. He then completed his medical degree at the Boston University School of Medicine in 1897. In 1909 Fuller married Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, an internationally known sculptor. The couple had three children, Solomon C., William T., and Perry J. Fuller.

Solomon Fuller’s major contribution was to the growing clinical knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease. As part of his post-graduate studies at the University of Munich (Germany), Fuller researched pathology and specifically neuropathology. In 1903 Solomon Carter Fuller was chosen by Alois Alzheimer to do research at the Royal Psychiatric Hospital at the University of Munich. He also helped correctly diagnose and train others to correctly diagnose the side effects of syphilis to prevent black war veterans from getting misdiagnosed, discharged, and ineligible for military benefits. He trained these young doctors at the Veteran’s Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama before the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiments (1932-1972).

Through much of his early career (1899-1933) Fuller was employed with Boston University’s School of Medicine where the highest position he attained was an associate professor. After losing his eyesight in 1944, Fuller was unable to continue practicing and passed away in 1953, at the age of 81 years, due to advanced diabetes. In 1974, the Black Psychiatrists of America created the Solomon Carter Fuller Program for young black aspiring psychiatrists to complete their residency. The Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center in Boston is also named after Dr. Fuller.

Source: Wikipedia

At MedStar Home Health Services is a full service home health care company. We are committed to providing our clients, 'Star' Service with Dedication, Compassion and Integrity.

To learn more, contact us at 314-782-7311 or visit www.medstarcds.com







In honor of Black History Month, MedStar Home Health Services would like to spotlight several African American Pioneers ...
02/12/2025

In honor of Black History Month, MedStar Home Health Services would like to spotlight several African American Pioneers in Medicine.

LEONIDAS HARRIS BERRY, MD (1902 – 1995)
and ‘THE FLYING BLACK MEDICS’

Even as a renowned gastroenterologist, Leonidas Harris Berry, MD, faced racism and many obstacles while working to make life better for people. His work with the gastroscope led to his development of the Eder-Berry gastrobiopsy-scope, which was the first used in studying the lining of the stomach of alcoholics. He was the first African American to present a paper to the American Medical Association. But these accomplishments may have been equaled or overshadowed by his Civil Rights work.

Born in 1902 in North Carolina and raised in Norfolk, Virginia, the fact that his Great-Grandparents had been slaves, made him aware that he had a duty to do well and give back to his community.

After graduating from high school, he attended and graduated from Wilberforce University with his B.S. degree and then received a second B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1925. In 1929, he received his M.D. from Rush Medical College of the University of Chicago, and he earned an M.S. degree in pathology in 1933. In 1934, he became a junior attending physician in Gastroenterology at Provident Hospital, which was the first Black-owned and operated hospital in the country. One of his studies, which was the first of its kind, showed that it was the liver and not the stomachs of alcoholics that were diseased.

In 1950, Dr. Berry set up the Council for Biomedical Careers, which educated the community with topics such as nursing, dentistry, medical technology, and pharmacy to encourage young Black students to enter those fields. He also led an in*******al and interfaith coalition in Chicago to rehabilitate young drug addicts. He worked with the state government to set up clinics for both the physical and psychological needs of the addict.

In 1969, Dr. Berry attended a conference in Cairo, Illinois, discussing the non-existence of health care for Black people and knew he needed to do something more for the impoverished residents. The following year with the support of his church and Civil Rights organizations, he helped organize “The Flying Black Medics”, a group of practitioners who flew from Chicago to Cairo, Illinois to set up clinics around the city offering free health care, supplies and health education to members of the Cairo community.

Dr. Berry’s life is a true testimony to his compassion and concern to make the lives of others better.

MedStar Home Health Services is a full service home health care company offering CDS, In-Home, HCY, and Veteran Care services. We are committed to providing our clients, 'Star' Service with Dedication, Compassion, and Integrity.

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In honor of Black History Month, MedStar Home Health Services would like to spotlight several African American Pioneers ...
02/07/2025

In honor of Black History Month, MedStar Home Health Services would like to spotlight several African American Pioneers in Medicine.

DR. MAE C. JEMISON
(October 17, 1956 - Present)

Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison. Her father was a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and her mother worked most of her career as an elementary school teacher of English and math in Chicago, Illinois. Jemison knew from a young age that she wanted to study science and someday go into space. The television show Star Trek and, in particular, African-American actress Nichelle Nichols' portrayal of Lieutenant Uhura further stoked her interest in space.

After graduating from Chicago's Morgan Park High School in 1973, Jemison entered Stanford University at the age of 16. At Stanford, Jemison served as head of the Black Students Union. She also choreographed a musical and dance production called 'Out of the Shadows'. During her senior year in college, she struggled with the choice between going to medical school or pursuing a career as a professional dancer. She graduated from Stanford in 1977, receiving a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and B.A. degree in African and African-American Studies. While at Stanford, she also pursued studies related to her childhood interest in space and first considered applying to NASA.

Jemison attended Cornell Medical School and during training, traveled to Cuba, to conduct a study funded by American Medical Student Association and to Thailand, where she worked at a Cambodian refugee camp. She also worked for Flying Doctors stationed in East Africa. After graduating with an M.D. degree in 1981, she interned at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center in 1982 and worked as a general practitioner for Ross-Loos Medical Group.

Jemison joined the staff of thePeace Corps in 1983 and served as a medical officer until 1985. She was responsible for the health of Peace Corps volunteers serving in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Jemison supervised the Peace Corps' pharmacy, laboratory, medical staff as well as providing medical care, writing self-care manuals. She also worked with the Center for Disease Control helping with research for various vaccines.

Returning to the United States after serving in the Peace Corps, Jemison settled in Los Angeles, California. She entered into private practice and took graduate-level engineering courses. Jemison applied to the astronaut program in October 1985. She was chosen from roughly 2,000 applicants for 15 slots in NASA Astronaut Group 12. The Associated Press covered her as the "first black woman astronaut" in 1987.

Jemison's work with NASA before her shuttle launch included launch support activities at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and verification of Shuttle computer software in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL). On September 28, 1989, she was selected to join the STS-47 crew as Mission Specialist 4 and was also designated Science Mission Specialist, a new astronaut role being tested by NASA to focus on scientific experiments.

Jemison flew her only space mission from September 12 to 20, 1992, as one of the seven-member crew aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, on mission STS-47, a cooperative mission between the United States and Japan, as well as the 50th shuttle mission. Jemison logged 190 hours, 30 minutes, 23 seconds in space and orbited the earth 127 times.

Jemison left NASA in 1993 and founded a technology research company. She later formed a non-profit educational foundation. Jemison also wrote several books for children and appeared on television several times, including in a 1993 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She holds 9 honorary doctorates and has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the International Space Hall of Fame.

Source: Wikipedia

At MedStar Home Health Services is a full service home health care company. We are committed to providing our clients, 'Star' Service with Dedication, Compassion and Integrity.

To learn more, contact us at 314-782-7311 or visit www.medstarcds.com







In honor of Black History Month, MedStar Home Health Services would like to spotlight several African American Pioneers ...
02/03/2025

In honor of Black History Month, MedStar Home Health Services would like to spotlight several African American Pioneers in Medicine.

"The Immortal" HENRIETTA LACKS
(August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951)

Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant) was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.

In 1951, a young mother of five named Henrietta Lacks visited The Johns Hopkins Hospital complaining of vaginal bleeding. Upon examination, it was discovered she had a large, malignant tumor on her cervix. At the time, The Johns Hopkins Hospital was one of only a few hospitals to treat African Americans.

As medical records show, Mrs. Lacks began undergoing radium treatments for her cervical cancer. This was the best medical treatment available at the time for this terrible disease. A sample of her cancer cells retrieved during a biopsy were sent to Dr. George G*y's nearby tissue lab. For years, Dr. G*y, a prominent cancer and virus researcher, had been collecting cells from all patients who came to The Johns Hopkins Hospital with cervical cancer, but each sample quickly died in Dr. G*y’s lab. What he would soon discover was that Mrs. Lacks’ cells were unlike any of the others he had ever seen: where other cells would die, Mrs. Lacks' cells doubled every 20 to 24 hours.

They reproduced at a very high rate and could be kept alive long enough to allow more in-depth examination. Until then, cells cultured for laboratory studies survived for only a few days at most, which wasn't long enough to perform a variety of different tests on the same sample. Lacks's cells were the first to be observed that could be divided multiple times without dying, which is why they became known as "immortal."

Today, these incredible cells— nicknamed "HeLa" cells, from the first two letters of her first and last names — are used to study the effects of toxins, drugs, hormones and viruses on the growth of cancer cells without experimenting on humans. They have been used to test the effects of radiation and poisons, to study the human genome, to learn more about how viruses work, and played a crucial role in the development of the polio vaccine.

HeLa cells were the first human cells successfully cloned in 1955,and have since been used to test human sensitivity to tape, glue, cosmetics, and many other products. Since the 1950s, scientists have grown as much as 50 million metric tons of her cells, and there are almost 11,000 patents involving HeLa cells.

In 1996, Morehouse School of Medicine held its first annual HeLa Women's Health Conference. The conference is held to give recognition to Henrietta Lacks, her cell line, and "the valuable contribution made by African Americans to medical research and clinical practice". The mayor of Atlanta declared the date of the first conference, October 11, 1996, "Henrietta Lacks Day".

In 2010, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research established the annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture Series to honor Henrietta Lacks and the global impact of HeLa cells on medicine and research. During the 2018 lectures, the University announced the naming of a new building on the medical campus for Lacks.

In 2011, Morgan State University in Baltimore granted Lacks a posthumous honorary doctorate in public service. Also in 2011, the Evergreen School District in Vancouver, Washington, named their new high school focused on medical careers the Henrietta Lacks Health and Bioscience High School, becoming the first organization to memorialize her publicly by naming a school in her honor.

HBO announced in 2010 that Oprah Winfrey was developing a film project based on Lack's life with Winfrey in the leading role of Deborah Lacks, Henrietta's daughter. The film "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" was released in 2017, with Renée Elise Goldsberry portraying Lacks.

Although, Mrs. Lacks ultimately passed away at the young age of 31, her cells continue to impact and have an everlasting effect on the medical world and ongoing research.

At MedStar Home Health Services, we provide a variety of medical services with our highly trained staff. We are committed to providing 'Star' Service with Dedication, Compassion and Integrity.

If interested, contact us at 314-782-7311






02/01/2025

Black History is American History.
In honor of Black History Month, we will recognize several African Americans who made significant contributions in the field of Medicine and Healthcare.
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12/25/2024

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11/28/2024

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