All Eyes on November
Courtesy ANB Bank
After experiencing the best start to a year since 1998, the S&P 500 weathered a disappointing April and May to reach a new four and a half year high. The S&P 500 closed at 1,437.92 on Sept. 7, 2012, its highest closing level since January of 2008. […]
Therapy Professionals and Their Roles
Courtesy Twin Creeks Hospital
The leadership of Twin Creeks Hospital understands the importance of providing quality rehabilitative care to their patients. Leslie Finta, physical therapist and director of therapy, strives to staff Twin Creeks Hospital with highly qualified therapists. […]
10 Myths about Hospice
Courtesy The Denver Hospice, East Denver LIVING WELL Magazine
Last year 1.5 million dying Americans were served by hospice providers across the nation, yet there are many myths about hospice.
Susan Lasker Hertz, vice president of hospice services for The Denver Hospice, dispels some of the myths of hospice. […]
Short of Breath? It could be more than just getting older
By Janelle Thier, Program Coordinator, American Lung Association in Iowa, Linn County LIVING WELL Magazine
Have you ever gone up a flight of stairs and had to pause at the top to catch your breath? Has showering, vacuuming, or even making your bed gotten increasingly difficult due to your breathing? […]
Care-Managed Home Care
By Dianne Boazman, LCSW, CMC, and Betty Landreaux, LCSW, CMC, Home Care Solutions, New Orleans LIVING WELL Magazine
Elder care issues are often complicated, chronic and complex. Finding the most viable and sustainable solutions for such needs takes understanding. This is particularly true with care-managed home care – a fresh approach and new national trend in non-medical sitter/companion services. By adding professional care management services to traditional home care, care managers help counsel and support individuals and families who are overwhelmed by care decisions. […]
Collaboration of clinical teams leads to top performance on quality of care measures by Ochsner Medical Center – North Shore
Courtesy Ochsner North Shore, Northshore LIVING WELL Magazine
Did you know that Slidell is home to one of the top performing hospitals in the country? Ochsner Medical Center – North Shore was recently named one of the nation’s top performers on key quality measures by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in America. […]
Advantages of Using a Locally Owned Independent Pharmacy
By Vic Welker, Majoria Drugs, New Orleans LIVING WELL Magazine
When you walk into a chain drug store or any of the big box stores, do you receive the customer service that you deserve? How often do you receive poor or no customer service? […]
What’s Special about a Specialty Hospital?
Courtesy Carrus Specialty Hospital, Texoma LIVING WELL Magazine
Specialty hospitals offer people who have complex medical needs or have significant injuries a place to receive intensive, focused care. Carrus Specialty Hospital is a long-term acute care facility (LTAC) that provides an essential continuum of high-level care. […]
Are you suffering from back or neck pain?
By Robert May, Progressive Rehab, Linn County LIVING WELL Magazine
When you have back or neck pain, it can affect your entire life. Constant pain can make you irritable and easily frustrated, affecting not only you, but your family, job and friends as well. Pain can affect your social life, making it impossible to enjoy many of the fun and relaxing activities you like to do. New technology, non-surgical spinal decompression, may well be the answer to resolving your back or neck pain. […]
Medicaid Will Take My House and Other Misconceptions for Spouses
By Paul Mitchell, CELA, East Denver LIVING WELL Magazine
Many of my clients are wives of the recipients of Medicaid. They have heard from their friends and social workers that Medicaid will take their house from them, that they must live on their own income without the support of their husbands and that they face bankruptcy because of the cost of their husbands’ care. […]
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