Tobacco Prevention: Holy Smokes! Klamath Falls Is Kicking Butts
The Foster G. McGaw Prize recognizes hospitals that go beyond sick care. Preventing tobacco use and passing tobacco policies is part of that work.
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Built Environment: Creating Spaces Where It’s Easy to Be Active
The Foster G. McGaw Prize recognizes hospitals that go beyond sick care. A place to be outdoors is part of that.
Food Systems: Growing a Healthier Community From the Ground Up
The Foster G. McGaw Prize recognizes hospitals that go beyond sick care. Food Systems is one of our community focus areas.
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The Wellness Connection: How your connections affect your health.
In the internet age, our connections are no longer limited to the people we can see in person. Now we can connect around the world.
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Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Colorectal cancer doesn’t only affect older adults.
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Regina’s Story
Regina had lost and kept off 70lbs from what she had learned through the Lifestyle Change Program, so the OTC medication and nightly snack combo created an extra layer of discontent for Regina. She knew that this method of managing her pain wasn’t working...
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Exploring Self Care
Self-care involves taking action to support your well-being, as well as having access to the resources and tools that empower you to take care of yourself.
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Medication Management
Medication errors are common, especially among older adults, but they can happen to anyone. So how can you make sure you’re taking the right meds, at the right time, in the right doses?
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Debunking the Myths of Older Adult Falls
To promote greater awareness and understanding here are 10 common myths—and the reality—about older adult falls.
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Around the Basin: Joint Friendly Activities
Try out low-impact exercises and see how you like them. Here are our favorite low-impact exercises and where you can do them in the Basin.
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Take Care of Your Joints with Low-Impact Exercises
We all know that regular exercise is important to our overall health and well-being. Regular exercise reduces anxiety and depression symptoms and can lower your blood pressure and risk of prediabetes. Most doctors recommend 30 minutes of moderate physical activity daily. But where do...
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Health column: Anti-inflammatory diets can help defend against autoimmune diseases
Autoimmune diseases are complicated and diverse. I could name a dozen without even thinking too hard about it, and they each have different causes, medications, and therapies.
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Klamath Cook-Off: Sky Lakes Showdown
The Sky Lakes Wellness Center hosted its very first employee cooking competition! This competition between employees is a lot like Chopped, where teams are given a random selection of ingredients and must create a dish within the time limit using all the mystery ingredients....