Barney Larry, vice president of business development at Baxter Regional Medical Center and executive director of the Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation, feels fortunate that a 95 percent blockage of his left coronary artery was discovered and treated before causing a heart attack. KEVIN PIEPER FOR LIVING WELL


From administrator to patient


Barney Larry sees Baxter Regional Medical Center through new eyes


Helen Mansfield For Living Well 16 ❚ JULY/AUGUST 2018 ❚ LIVING WELL B


ack in February of this year, Barney Larry very nearly be- came a statistic, and not the good kind. At 73 years of age, Larry is


a senior who is the embodiment of health and vitality. He is active, both mentally and physically by exercising every day, and has no family history of heart disease.


So at the beginning of the year when


Larry – the vice president of business development at Baxter Regional Medical Center and executive director of the Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation – starting having strange feelings in his upper chest, he didn’t think too much about it, at first. Assuming he was just having some upper gastric issues, Larry went through several tests and “tummy trouble” was ruled out.


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