Health

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30
Aug

Stroke Support Group to meet

Veterans Memorial Hospital Speech-Language Pathologist Steven Mazzafield offers a Stroke Support Group for individuals who have experienced a stroke, as well as caregivers and family members affected by stroke.

Monthly meetings are held the first Thursday of every month at 2 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH). The next Stroke Support Group meeting will be held Thursday, September 7 at 2 p.m. in the Large Conference Room.

The Stroke Support Group provides opportunities to share tips, tricks or trials among participants, offer support for caregivers, and provide an opportunity for socialization.

While strokes can happen at any age, risk of stroke is greatest as people get older with the majority of strokes occurring after the age of 70. Risk factors for stroke include obesity, sedentary lifestyle, binge drinking, diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

Wed
30
Aug

Grief Support Group to meet at VMH September 12

The local Grief Support Group will be holding its monthly meeting at Veterans Memorial Hospital Tuesday, September 12 at 5 p.m. in the Meditation Healing Center, located just inside the main entrance of the hospital.

This informal meeting is open to anyone suffering from any type of loss, whether it be death, divorce, illness or some other grief.

Feel free to attend and bring a friend. This grief support meets the second Tuesday of each month at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon.
 

Wed
30
Aug

Diabetes Support Group to meet at VMH September 21

The Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH) Diabetes Support Group will hold its next meeting Thursday, September 21, at 10 a.m.   The meeting will be held at VMH in the Large Conference Room, located on the lower level of the hospital.

This diabetes class is open to everyone who has diabetes or has a friend or loved one with diabetes.  For more information on the Diabetes Support Group, call Angie Mettille, RN, at Veterans Memorial Hospital at 563-568-3411.

Wed
23
Aug

Veterans Memorial Hospital to offer “Be the Match” stem cell sampling at Music in the Park in Lansing this Thursday

“Be the Match” at Lansing Music in the Park ...
“Be the Match” at Lansing Music in the Park ... Veterans Memorial Hospital will be offering free blood pressure and blood sugar diabetes checks at Music in the Park in Lansing Thursday evening, August 24, beginning at 5 p.m. The hospital typically offers these two tests at most all area events and often times catches individuals who unknowingly have high results. In addition, VMH staff will be offering “Be the Match” stem cell sampling for everyone ages 18-40. “Be the Match” sampling is quick, easy, painless and can truly save a life. Submitted photo.

Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH) will be visiting Lansing’s Music in the Park Thursday evening, August 24, beginning at 5 p.m. and offering free blood sugar testing and blood pressure checks with immediate results by Angie Mettille, Diabetes Educator.  The hospital typically offers these two tests at many area events and often times catches individuals who unknowingly have high results. Both of these checks take just a few seconds to perform and are free of charge.

Wed
23
Aug

September to be observed as National Preparedness Month; Are you prepared for a disaster or emergency?

Veterans Memorial Hospital Community and Home Care - Allamakee Public Health is looking ahead to the month of September which is National Preparedness Month, to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for disasters and emergencies that could happen at any time.

“We want to encourage everyone in the area to remember to have a preparedness plan because disasters do happen,” states Sheryl Darling-Mooney, RN, Allamakee Public Health Supervisor. “In the wake of the devastation in Maui, we felt this was a good time to remind the public to have a plan. We can have very volatile weather in the Midwest and we encourage everyone to follow these suggestions from Ready.gov, to make a plan and be ready, just in case.”

Wed
23
Aug

VMH will transition to a new accounts receivable service; Phone calls will be qualified by guarantor numbers

Veterans Memorial Hospital has announced it will return to using Meduit to help with the collection of accounts for healthcare services.  Meduit is the nation’s largest revenue cycle solutions company who serve over 1,000 medical facilities within 48 of the United States. With the help once again of Meduit, Veterans Memorial Hospital will be able to provide cash acceleration to significantly improve financial performance. Veterans Memorial Hospital used the help of this outside agency with their account collections until the last few years and has decided to return to this same service.

Wed
23
Aug

Stroke Support Group to meet; Presentation relating to the different types of strokes; Public welcome to attend

Veterans Memorial Hospital Speech-Language Pathologist Steven Mazzafield offers a Stroke Support Group for individuals who have experienced a stroke, as well as caregivers and family members affected by stroke.

Monthly meetings are held the first Thursday of every month at 2 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH). The next Stroke Support Group meeting will be held Thursday, September 7, at 2 p.m. in the Large Conference Room.

This month, Mazzafield will be giving a presentation on the different types of strokes.  Anyone is welcome to attend who may want to learn more.

The Stroke Support Group provides opportunities to share tips, tricks, or trials among participants, offer support for caregivers, and provide an opportunity for socialization.

Wed
23
Aug

Blood in special demand during summer months; Next LifeServe Blood Drive scheduled for September 7

Every two seconds someone needs blood! The next LifeServe Blood Center blood drive will be held Thursday, September 7, from 12-5 p.m., at the First Baptist Church located in south Waukon. Blood drives are held once a month in Waukon, to allow for more donors to give. The LifeServe Blood Center supplies Veterans Memorial Hospital with its blood and blood products.

Blood centers across the United States see a decrease in blood donations during the busy summer months.  During the summer, people become more active, have busier schedules, spend more time outdoors and take vacations. While donations decline, hospitals see an increase in the need for blood. More driving can mean more automobile accidents.  A person who has suffered severe injuries from an automobile accident can need up to 50 units of blood.

Wed
23
Aug

Grief Support Group to meet at VMH September 12

The local Grief Support Group will be holding its monthly meeting at Veterans Memorial Hospital Tuesday, September 12, at 5 p.m. in the Meditation Healing Center, located just inside the main entrance of the hospital.

This informal meeting is open to anyone suffering from any type of loss whether it be death, divorce, illness or some other grief.

Feel free to attend and bring a friend. This grief support meets the second Tuesday of each month at Veterans Memorial Hospital.

Wed
23
Aug

Alpha-gal syndrome - another tick-borne illness to be aware of

As if Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever didn’t offer enough to be wary of ticks about, there’s a new syndrome the insects are capable of spreading that can cause an allergic reaction to the meat and byproducts of certain animals and animal byproducts.

Alpha-gal syndrome is an allergic reaction to red meat such as beef, pork, lamb, venison, rabbit and the products that come from these and other mammals. It’s transmitted when a tick - primarily the lone star - bites an animal and collects sugars in the animal’s meat called Alpha gal. Should a tick carrying that sugar bite a person, it could trigger a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction should the person consume red meat with that same sugar.

According to Gundersen Health System infection preventionist Megan Meller, the symptoms of Alpha-gal syndrome “can vary based on that person’s immune response. “It’s an allergic response that, at this point, has no cure.”

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