Alegent Health is blessed to have several excellent medication providers and therapists who work with adolescents. As you can imagine, there are so many challenges to being in junior high and high school these days: grades, friends, dating, sex, family situations – there are so many internal and external influences. Anyone who is the parent of an adolescent knows exactly what I’m talking about. Adolescence can be a very rich and rewarding time for our kids. They are making changes physically and mentally, and preparing to enter into the world … Continue reading
Do you have plans for 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 5? Consider participating in the Omaha and Council Bluffs Heart Walk. What: American Heart Association Heart Walk When: Saturday, May 5, 9:00 a.m. (one-mile children’s walk starts at 8:00 a.m.) Where: Stinson Park (67th and Center, just west of Aksarben Village). Who: Anyone and everyone is welcome Cost: Free (walkers are eligible for a Heart Walk t-shirt once they have raised a minimum of $100) Click here to register online. My husband and I have volunteered for every walk over the … Continue reading
Hello again everyone. I hope this blog finds you doing well with this amazing weather we’re having. This morning I received an email for some training here at Alegent for behavioral and mental-health care providers called Motivational Interviewing. One of the great things about Alegent Health is that we are constantly making sure we are keeping up with the best ways to help patients get well and stay well. Mental Health here at Alegent is no different. To be a mental-health provider requires ongoing training – being open to life-long … Continue reading
Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported on an interesting survey. During January 2012, at the request of Medi-Weight Loss Clinics , Survey Sampling International surveyed 325 women concerning challenges at work. While I consider the word “diet” as a four letter word, the survey used it often. To the many community members I meet, diet means deprivation or something that they will do for awhile. It does not convey the lifestyle change needed to reduce weight or to maintain weight. I prefer to use words such as: “healthy … Continue reading
I am writing this on a day when it might actually hit 71 or 72 degrees! It’s amazing to me how the weather in the Midwest can be so unpredictable. I think I mentioned in one of my very first blogs that I lived in the Phoenix area for about 18 years. I rarely, if ever, checked the weather report there. It was either sunny and warm, or sunny and hot. Very predictable weather in that part of the country. Here in the Midwest, look out! Things can change quickly. … Continue reading