I’ve all the time been a proponent of hospitals partnering with group organizations to make life higher for our group members. We’re all related, and that is one strategy to mirror that actuality. For instance, our partnership with EMS Companies is significant to the wellbeing of our sufferers, and lately our participation with the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau COVID-19 Vaccine Initiative enabled us to offer one of the crucial efficient weapons towards the virus to 1000’s of space residents.
This month, I’m comfortable to announce that we’re partnering with the Mountain High Rotary to take part of their 2022 Artwork and Craft Present, the place we’ll offer vital well being screenings to attendees. The present takes place from 10am to 5pm on Saturday, June twenty fifth and Sunday, June twenty sixth. We will even provide screenings at their August present on the twenty seventh and twenty eighth. These happen at Okay-H Founders Park on Pine Avenue.
As its title implies, the Artwork and Craft Present’s focus is on regional artwork, hand crafted furnishings, handmade clothes, and meals, however Highlands-Cashiers Hospital (HCH) will proudly be a presence as properly, reminding individuals in regards to the significance of caring in your well being and providing schooling, info, and screening.
A few of our physicians shall be available to speak to attendees, there shall be well being literature obtainable to take for these , and we shall be providing glucose screenings and BMI (physique mass index) readings.
I’ve spoken up to now by my column in regards to the significance of “figuring out your numbers” relating to your well being, and these two screenings are key barometers of your total well being.
Together with monitoring your ldl cholesterol, blood stress, and weight, the information gained from these screenings provide you with and your main care supplier indications about your well being, and what well being issues you may be at greater danger for. Whether it is discovered that you simply’re at greater danger for sure circumstances because of a excessive BMI or elevated blood glucose ranges, then you’ll be able to take measures to decrease them.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that sort 2 diabetes is an pressing epidemic in our nation. The statistics are staggering: Based on the CDC (Facilities for Illness Management), practically 37.5 million Individuals live with diabetes, and 96 million have prediabetes and are unaware of it.
Kind 2 diabetes is a well being situation that does severe injury to your circulatory, immune, and nervous techniques, placing you in danger for every little thing from amputation to imaginative and prescient loss. The illness emerges when your physique can’t correctly regulate and make the most of sugar from the meals you eat as its gas.
Diabetes results in a bunch of problems, together with neuropathy (numbness that’s most frequently skilled within the legs and ft), kidney injury, and eye injury. Having diabetes raises your danger for different severe well being circumstances as properly, reminiscent of coronary heart assault and stroke.
Although there’s no remedy for sort 2 diabetes, way of life modifications like consuming a nutritious food plan and getting good train can help you handle it higher. There are additionally drugs obtainable, together with insulin.
The BMI readings we’ll be doing will assist you perceive whether or not you’re at present at a standard weight or for those who ought to purpose to drop some weight. Being obese or overweight not solely ups your danger for diabetes, it will increase the chance that you simply’ll be recognized with coronary heart illness, hypertension, stroke, excessive ldl cholesterol, and sleep apnea.
Your physique mass index quantity can reveal simply whether or not you’re underweight, at a standard weight, obese, or overweight. The calculation is arrived at utilizing your weight and peak; a BMI of 18.5 or under signifies that you simply’re underweight, 18.5 to 24.9 displays a standard weight, 25-29.9 signifies that you’re obese, and 30 or above factors to weight problems.
Along with these well being screenings, we’ll be distributing complimentary assets like bottled water and first support kits. Guests will even be capable to meet and speak with our medical doctors and study extra about HCH packages and providers that may assist you handle your weight and well being, reminiscent of our cardiac rehab program, endoscopy providers, and extra.
We will even be recruiting on the occasion for our subsequent Nurse Aide Coaching Program, which is about to begin in July. This 6-week intensive course is a paid place and absolutely prepares individuals for the NAI (Nurse Aide 1) exams in North Carolina. They’re paid with advantages as Companions at Eckerd Residing Heart throughout these six weeks, and uniform and testing charges are lined as properly. Higher but, upon completion of this system and passing the CNA exams, newly minted CNAs are employed to work right here at ELC they usually obtain a beneficiant sign-on bonus. That is an unbelievable alternative for these involved in beginning their healthcare profession.
I hope to see you on the Mountain High Rotary Artwork and Craft Present this month. We worth the chance to work together with our group members, present well being schooling and screenings, and enhance the collective wellbeing of our group.
Tom Neal, RN, MBA, MHA, is the Chief Government Officer and Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) of Highlands-Cashiers Hospital. Neal is a confirmed chief with greater than 30 years of progressive healthcare expertise. Previous to his function at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital, he held the place of Chief Government Officer of Neighborhood Well being Techniques (CHS) and served as Chief Government Officer of each Berwick Hospital Heart in Berwick, Pennsylvania, and Greenbrier Valley Medical Heart, Ronceverte, West Virginia. Tom has an MBA from the College of Louisville, MHA from the California Faculty of Well being Sciences, BSN from Regents Faculty of New York and an ADN from Jefferson Neighborhood Faculty.
