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Kemptville District Hospital Expands Education and Support Programs to Help Combat the Global Epidemic of Diabetes(0)
Kemptville District Hospital Expands Education and Support Programs to Help Combat the Global Epidemic of Diabetes
Kemptville, Ontario (PRWEB) February 02, 2012 With an emphasis on prevention, Kemptville District Hospital (KDH) has committed staff and resources to help tackle the global epidemic of diabetes: teams at both KDH and its satellite Rideau Valley Health Services (RVHS) in Barrhaven are offering a variety of programs to provide education and support to people living with diabetes and pre-diabetes.
Today, more than 9 million Canadians live with diabetes or pre-diabetes. By 2020 almost 10 percent of Canadians will have diabetes and the disease will cost our healthcare system a staggering .9 billion per year.
Approximately 10 percent of people with diabetes have type 1 diabetes, a non-preventable disease of unknown cause; the remaining 90 percent have Type 2 diabetes, a disease that can often be prevented or delayed through increased physical activity, healthy eating and weight loss. The number of Canadians with type 2 diabetes is increasing dramatically due to a number of factors, including our aging population, rising obesity rates, and increasingly sedentary lifestyles.
As many as 1 million Canadians are living with undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes. If left untreated or improperly managed, diabetes can result in a variety of complications including heart disease, kidney disease, eye disease, impotence, and nerve damage.
Prevention and early diagnosis are key to managing this healthcare crisis. Kemptville Hospital and RVHS realize that it starts with education.
Kemptville District Hospital Diabetes Clinic
KDH provides diabetes services in the Kemptville area through a Diabetes Clinic run by a multidisciplinary team, which includes Heather Kamenz, a registered nurse, Julia Hicks, a registered dietitian, the hospital’s pharmacist, Mary Whyte, and chiropodist Melanie Atkinson. The goal of the clinic is to provide individuals with the tools they need to manage and treat their diabetes.
The KDH Diabetes clinic offers several programs for adults diagnosed with diabetes or pre-diabetes. The programs provide in-depth education on diabetes management and treatment, as well as group sessions and/or individual counseling with the nurse and dietitian.
The team recently held an offsite diabetes education session at a local retirement home for people unable to conveniently get to the hospital to take part in a program; the team is now looking into options for taking the program to other area nursing homes. Dietitian Julia Hicks also leads group excursions to a local grocery store, to provide education about how to interpret food labels and make healthier choices for managing diabetes.
Kamenz explains that there are many signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes, including unusual thirst, frequent urination, weight change (gain or loss), extreme fatigue, blurred vision, cuts and bruises that are slow to heal, and tingling or numbness in the hands or feet. People experiencing any of these symptoms should contact their healthcare provider right away. However, as Hicks points out, some people with type 2 diabetes are asymptomatic. This is why it’s important to be tested. The Canadian Diabetes Association recommends screening for diabetes for everyone once they reach age 40 and every three years after that.
Patients can book their own appointments at the free KDH Diabetes clinic, or have their doctors make referrals. To book an appointment, call (613) 258-6133, extension 155; for more information choose extension 212 for Heather Kamenz, or 216 for Julia Hicks.
Rideau Valley Health Services
Located within the Rideau Valley Health Centre in Barrhaven, the Ottawa South Diabetes Education Program and Support Team offers diabetes education to residents of Barrhaven, Manotick, and Ottawa South. The multidisciplinary team includes registered nurse Kelly Rody and registered dietitian Alia Khudhair-Gilmer.
Dedicated to improving the quality of life of clients living with type 2 diabetes and those at risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the Team offers diabetes and pre-diabetes education in individual and group settings, as well as individual counseling with both Rody and Khudhair-Gilmer. New group programs start every month and are offered during the day and/or evening. Spouses are encouraged to attend sessions, especially if the spouse prepares most of the meals in the family.
Rody and Khudhair-Gilmer provide support to clients recently diagnosed and those diagnosed at some point in the past. Clients are assessed one-on-one and invited to participate in programs. Khudhair-Gilmer notes that the group sessions are really helpful, with clients sharing suggestions for coping with their diabetes, from good walking paths to recipes. “It helps to feel that you’re not alone,” says Khudhair-Gilmer, “especially when you are first diagnosed.”
Both Rody and Khudhair-Gilmer have noticed that clients are being diagnosed at a younger age these days. They have clients in their 30s, where in the past the onset of type 2 diabetes tended to occur in the patient’s 40s or later. Since diabetes is a progressive disease, explains Rody, it is important that it be managed well from the beginning or it can become increasingly difficult to control. The good news is that education makes a difference: “the more education people receive about diabetes,” says Rody, “the more success they have in managing the disease.”
Khudhair-Gilmer lists the risk factors for developing diabetes: being 40 or older, having a close relative with Type 2 diabetes, being a member of a high risk population – Aboriginal, Hispanic, Asian, South Asian or African – having a history of gestational diabetes or pre-diabetes or some evidence of complications (eye, nerve or kidney problems), having heart disease, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol, and being overweight (especially extra weight around the abdomen).
A physician referral is not necessary to benefit from the free services provided by the Ottawa South Diabetes Education Program and Support Team; to book an appointment or for more information call (613) 258-8714, or email diabetes(at)rvhs(dot)ca. The Rideau Valley Health Centre is located at 1221 Greenbank Road, Ottawa, http://www.rvhc.ca.
For more information about diabetes, visit the Canadian Diabetes Association website, http://www.diabetes.ca. For more information about this press release, contact Jenny Read, jread(at)kdh(dot)on(dot)ca, 613.285.0301. If you would like to make comments or suggestions about hospital services, please contact Kemptville District Hospital Chief Executive Officer Colin Goodfellow at 613.258.6133 extension 132, or by email at cgoodfellow(at)kdh(dot)on(dot)ca.
About Kemptville District Hospital
Kemptville District Hospital (KDH) is a fully accredited healthcare facility committed to building healthy communities. KDH offers a range of services based on advanced expertise, technologies and patient care practices. The emergency department is open around the clock and provides prompt medical attention. The use of new medical applications such as Tele-health and remote diagnostic imaging has made KDH a service leader in Eastern Ontario. Further, the surgical program at KDH provides timely access to high demand specialists, while the staff’s dedication to patients has earned KDH a reputation for excellence in caring. Kemptville District Hospital consistently ranks among the top hospitals in Ontario for patient satisfaction.
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Abseiling Sax – Andy Williamson at Guy’s Hospital, 28 June 2009(6)
At 150m, the tower of Guy’s hospital in London is apparently the highest ‘civilian abseil’ in the UK. Andy Williamson abseiled down the tower on Sunday with his precious 1930 Conn Tenor Sax, stopped about 40m up and played a duet with double bassist Dave Silk. Dave happens to be the great-great-great-great-great-nephew of Thomas Guy who founded Guy’s Hospital in 1721. Andy is raising money for Guy’s and St Thomas’ Kidney Patients’ Association of which he is currently Chair. To make a donation, please visit www.justgiving.com
A presentation with the word “poop” in the title garnered Santa Fe Biology Professor Dr. Jerry Johnston a shot at AFC’s 2011 Professor of the Year award. The Association of Florida Colleges (AFC) is the professional association for Florida’s 28 public community colleges. AFC selected 10 semi-finalists back in April, and asked them each to present a 15-minute teaching demonstration at the organization’s spring conference in St. Augustine in May. “The title of my teaching demonstration was ‘Plants, Parents and Poop,’” said Johnston, who joined SF’s Natural Sciences Department in 2003. “The focus is on understanding fruit from a plant’s point of view. In nature, fruits are actually part of a successful parenting strategy by many plants. The poop part of the story is a little gross but certainly memorable.” Gross or not, he impressed the committee, which selected him as one of three finalists for the award. The winner will be announced at next week’s AFC conference in Naples. SF Biology Professor Beatriz Gonzalez nominated Johnston. She praised his teaching style, writing, “Dr. Johnston is an outstanding teacher. He has very high standards, but is very clear on what his expectations are and helps his students achieve those standards.” Johnston said he implemented a teaching approach that incorporated the qualities of the professors he found most effective and inspirational back when he was a student. He provides his students with a variety of educational activities that … |
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Fourth Advocate Health Care Hospital Selects PerfectServe(0)
Fourth Advocate Health Care Hospital Selects PerfectServe
Knoxville, TN (PRWEB) December 20, 2011 Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, a 408-bed Magnet hospital in Chicago and part of Advocate Health Care, has announced it will implement PerfectServe’s hospital communications system. This is PerfectServe’s fourth contract with the 11-hospital Advocate Health Care System, one of the nation’s top 10 health systems.
PerfectServe will enable more than 1,000 physicians at Illinois Masonic to speed medical communication, reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. The first Advocate medical centers to implement the system were Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, and Advocate Trinity Hospital.
PerfectServe enables physicians and nurses to quickly connect with anyone on the medical staff. The intelligent physician and nurse call and message system automatically routes calls and messages to the right physician, in the right way, based on the physicians’ communication preferences for that moment in time. It saves time, increasing physicians’ satisfaction and improving the care collaboration process.
When PerfectServe is implemented, every medical staff member—inside and outside Illinois Masonic—will be connected on a single medical communications platform and directory. Access is provided via one-number voice search, Web, and iPhone and Android apps.
“Advocate Health and Illinois Masonic have solid reputations for quality, which we will help support,” said Terry Edwards, chief executive officer of PerfectServe. “We look forward to helping Illinois Masonic— one of Chicago’s leading Level I trauma centers — improve their efficiency, reduce risk and enhance their ability to coordinate care.”
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Dr. Robert Goecker Named Chief of Podiatric Foot and Ankle Surgery at Sarasota Memorial Hospital(0)
Dr. Robert Goecker Named Chief of Podiatric Foot and Ankle Surgery at Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Sarasota, Florida (PRWEB) January 20, 2012 Dr. Robert Goecker is passionate about foot and ankle surgery and about using his gifts and talents as a Podiatrist to improve the lives of patients. Whether it’s in the Baja Project for Crippled Children providing free corrective surgery to children with clubfoot or right back here in Sarasota, Dr. Goecker comes alive when he has the opportunity to help someone.
Robert Goecker, DPM, a physician in private practice with West Coast Podiatry Center, has been honored by Sarasota Memorial Hospital in recognition of his excellence in the operating room and with patient care.
It was in recognition of this passion and his reputation for excellence that Sarasota Memorial Hospital recently announced that Dr. Goecker would take over as Chief of Podiatric Foot and Ankle Surgery.
“Dr. Goecker has truly provided some incredible outcomes to patients whom otherwise may have progressed towards major lower extremity amputations,” says Dr. Michael Lepore, Past Chief of Staff of the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System. “His patients speak extremely highly of him. Dr. Goecker has been an asset to our community and I look forward to continuing to work together with him in the future to provide state of the art vascular care and limb salvage techniques to all of our patients.”
“This is truly an honor for me,” says Dr. Goecker. “I’m truly passionate about helping patients with reconstruction and trauma, and the really tough limb salvage cases are extremely fulfilling. There’s nothing like being able to tell a patient we were able to save their leg.”
In addition to caring for patients in the West Coast Podiatry Center offices and performing surgeries at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Dr. Goecker lectures extensively on topics related to foot and ankle surgery for other Podiatrists nationwide. He is on the faculty of the renowned Podiatry Institute, and is a featured lecturer at the Florida Podiatric Medical Association’s upcoming Science and Management 2012 conference in Orlando in January.
Dr. Goecker received his Doctorate of Podiatric Medicine from the College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery – University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences in Des Moines, Iowa after completing his undergraduate work at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He then went on to complete a 3-year Surgical Residency at Northlake Regional Medical Center in Tucker, Georgia. He has also completed extensive additional training in arthroscopy of the foot & ankle, microsurgery and other disciplines that give him exceptional positioning as a leading surgeon in Southwest Florida.
Dr Goecker is in practice with Dr. Alissa Zdancewicz and Dr. Stephen Lasday, who also serves as Medical Director of West Coast Podiatry Center and is Past Chief of Podiatric Foot and Ankle Surgery at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. Appointments can be made in Sarasota at 941-366-2627, in Bradenton at 941-753-9599 or online at http://www.WestCoastPodiatry.com.
West Coast Podiatry Center, P.A. has been a leading Podiatry clinic in Southwest Florida since it was founded in 1990. With its staff of 3 physicians, West Coast Podiatry cares for patients in its locations in Sarasota and Bradenton, at 5 area hospitals, and at various other wound care facilities. Privately owned by the physicians, the practice has been recognized by the community as a leader in podiatric medicine and achieving positive outcomes in patient care. Two physicians from West Coast Podiatry Center have been named Chief of Podiatric Foot and Ankle Surgery at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, and all three are published authors in peer reviewed medical journals and textbooks.
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System is a regional medical center consisting of an 806-bed hospital, physician practices and a network of specialized medical campuses and clinics that include a nursing and rehabilitation center, home health, psychiatric hospital, walk-in medical centers and outpatient centers that offer the latest diagnostic and treatment services. The only public hospital in the four-county Southwest Florida region, Sarasota Memorial has nearly 4,000 staff members, 1,000 volunteers and 802 physicians. It is one of the largest acute-care public hospitals in the nation and is currently Sarasota County’s second-largest employer. It also is the only hospital in southwest Florida named in the nation’s top 1% of hospitals for consistent clinical excellence, earning a spot on HealthGrades’ “America’s 50 Best Hospitals” list for 2011. Sarasota Memorial also has received the independent health care ratings organization’s highest honor for patient safety – the Patient Safety Excellence Award™.
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Bowie & Jensen is Pleased to Announce that Mark Jensen Was Elected to the Maryland Hospital Association?s Executive Committee(0)
Bowie & Jensen is Pleased to Announce that Mark Jensen Was Elected to the Maryland Hospital Association’s Executive Committee
Towson, MD (PRWEB) September 01, 2011 Bowie & Jensen, a leading Maryland business law firm, is pleased to announce that Mark Jensen, a partner with the firm, was elected to the Maryland Hospital Association’s (MHA’s) Executive Committee during its annual membership meeting. Mr. Jensen will serve as a Trustee Councilor-at-Large for the MHA. Mr. Jensen is a long-standing and active member of MHA’s Council on Clinical and Quality Issues.
Mr. Jensen will serve a one-year term as a Trustee Councilor-at-Large on MHA’s Executive Committee, after which he will be eligible for re-election to two additional one-year terms.
“Mark brings nine years of depth and experience to the MHA board,” said Carmela Coyle, President & CEO of the MHA. “Mark understands how hospitals run and brings invaluable experience to MHA at the corporate level. We are delighted to have someone with his experience and reputation on our board.”
The election of Mr. Jensen to the Executive Committee of the MHA follows his appointment to the Board of Directors of the MedStar Health System. Mr. Jensen also served on the Board of Union Memorial Hospital, part of the MedStar Health System, and served a three-year term as the Board’s Chairman.
At Bowie & Jensen, Mr. Jensen leads the firm’s transactional department. He has received numerous legal awards and most recently was named to SmartCEO’s legal elite. He focuses his practice on the representation of privately held companies of all sizes, drawing on his personal experience and professional training to help his clients identify goals and develop strategies and tactics to achieve them. The combination of hospital, legal and business experience made him the perfect choice for the Executive Committee of the MHA.
“Mark’s leadership experience will be a valuable asset to MHA,” said his Bowie & Jensen partner Mike Oliver, who leads the firm’s Intellectual Property practice. “His broad financial and general management expertise will be an invaluable asset to the Board.”
Mr. Jensen is committed to public service and has been involved in hospital policy and governance for many years. In addition to serving on the MHA, MedStar and Union Memorial Hospital Boards, he currently sits on the MedStar Audit Committee, Investment Committee and the Quality, Safety and Professional Affairs Committee and has previously chaired the Union Memorial Board, chaired the UMH Strategic Planning Committee, served on the UMH Professional Practice and Quality Oversight Committee (which he chaired), UMH Risk Management Committee, and UMH Hospital Leadership Committee. He has served on the MedStar Strategic Planning Committee, the Union Memorial Foundation Board and the Maryland Hospital Association Council on Clinical and Quality Issues Committee.
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Lenox Hill Hospital Honored at Obstetric Care Conference: The Third Annual PeriGen Knowledge Summit(0)
Lenox Hill Hospital Honored at Obstetric Care Conference: The Third Annual PeriGen Knowledge Summit
Princeton, NJ (Vocus) May 8, 2010 PeriGen, Inc., the only OB-specific risk reduction company to provide solutions which generate immediate quantifiable clinical and financial value, awarded Lenox Hill Hospital with the prestigious Award for OB Clinical Excellence, which recognizes their all-around peerless performance in providing safety for their patients using the PeriBirth system of care.
The Award was presented at PeriGen’s 2010 Knowledge Summit in Washington, D.C., a gathering of nationally-recognized obstetric experts and safe birth advocates who exchanged ideas and information on how to improve the standard of care for U.S. mothers and the more than 4 million babies expected to be born this year.
“We are proud to honor our colleagues and friends at Lenox Hill Hospital,” said Donald A. Deieso, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO, PeriGen, Inc. “These devoted caregivers have made a significant impact on the safety of their patients, and on the quality of obstetric care offered at Lenox Hill. We are pleased to recognize their commitment to OB patient safety.”
A 652-bed, acute care hospital located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Lenox Hill Hospital has earned a national reputation for outstanding patient care and innovative medical and surgical treatments This award was presented by Dan O’Keefe, PeriGen’s Chief Medical Officer, and Vicki Lucas, PeriGen’s Chief Nursing Officer.
“We are so pleased to receive this honor,” said Mia Patunas-Rubin, Clinical Coordinator of Maternal Child Health and the Prenatal Safety Nurse at Lenox Hill Hospital. “We share this award with all of the hard working clinicians at Lenox Hill Hospital without whom we could not have achieved what we did. It was only possible as a team. To have our hard work acknowledged is very rewarding.”
Recent reports indicate that maternal healthcare is at an all-time crisis point in America. Amnesty International ranked the United States 46th worldwide in infant mortality rate in their report “Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Healthcare Crisis in the USA,” behind Cuba and just ahead of Croatia. In addition, The Lancet recently published a report on maternal mortality rates in which the United States’ rankings fell precipitously. PeriGen is at the forefront in releasing solutions that improve maternal and perinatal healthcare outcomes, including innovative products like PeriBirth and PeriCalm.
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