The Road to Ill Health is Paved with Bad Habits

Sky Lakes Medical Center in the Herald and News

August 27, 2010

There are four components to the health of a community: The physical environment, the socioeconomic climate, the healthcare delivery systems, and the community’s health habits.

Improving the community’s health needs to include ways to reduce unemployment, address poverty and a host of other factors that contribute to how well our society cares for itself.  Read the entire article.

Sky Lakes Medical Center in the Herald and News

August 13, 2010

Before Brenda Anderson flatlined, she remembers watching a doctor cut through her brand-new blouse.  She remembers protesting, saying she had just bought it. She remembers the doctor’s response: “Don’t worry about it. I’ll buy you another one.” Then her heart stopped.  Read the full article as well as the signs of a heart attack.