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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Free blood pressure and blood sugar screenings will be provided at the Lake County Fair, to be held Thursday, Sept. 2, through Sunday, Sept. 5.
Sutter Lakeside Hospital’s Mobile Health Services Unit (MHSU) will provide the free health screening services from opening until 8 p.m. every day of the fair.
The mobile unit will be parked behind Lewis Hall in the Cloverleaf grass area. Stop by and meet the MHSU practitioner Brad Greaves, PA-C.
Information about Sutter Lakeside’s Family Birth Center, Wellness Center and other services will be available at the booth as well.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Healing alcohol and drug addiction in the community takes education and action for people with substance use disorders who are starting on a road to recovery in Lake County.
Even after admitting they have a problem; people who want to overcome their addictions have many other issues to consider: How do they find available treatment programs? Will health insurance cover the costs of the services they need? Will they be able to stay on the job while seeking help?
Answering these questions can help people with substance abuse disorders take the first steps to get the help they need.
When a person is trying to move into recovery, they need to learn new tools to move from an addiction centered lifestyle to a recovery-centered lifestyle.
Although some individuals can change on their own, others require more formal options for treatment and support.
Lake County Alcohol and Other Drug Services is working every day to inform residents in the community about change readiness; to hear about the options for risk reduction and behavior change.
As a responsible community, it's important to ensure that addiction is recognized as a disease, and treated as such. This is done by educating ourselves about the signs to look for in friends, family and co-workers, such as a sudden decline in performance or attendance at work or school, or sudden changes in behavior or personality.
It's also important to call upon doctors to actively screen patients for and diagnose dependence and addiction, and ask employers to help make treatment available. Help is out there for those who want it.
To assist in these educational efforts and applaud those in recovery, on Sept. 1 Lake County AODS will take part in a big march for recovery rally which takes place on the steps of the State Capitol building in Sacramento.
Other activities will include a proclamation recognizing Recovery Month in Lake County presented by the Board of Supervisors.
There also will be a countywide picnic at Austin Park in Clearlake on Sept. 11 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The public is encouraged to attend the picnic for free food, speakers and informational booths.
For more information call 707-263-8162.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Mary McMillan invites everyone to a free workshop, “Enjoying Your Relationships,” on Friday, Sept. 3, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., at Watershed Books, 305 N. Main St., Lakeport.
During this workshop, you will discover exciting new relationship tools.
Bring your questions and learn how to get more of what you want – with your spouse, friends, lover, co-workers – with everyone.
McMillan also will be signing copies of her new book, “Get Inside Your Relationships: Tools and Strategies for Building Attachments.”
According to one reviewer, “'Get Inside Your Relationships' has none of the soap-opera drama that so often infects self-help books. Rather, it is a no-frills operations manual on how to give and get respect, which is really what healthy relationships are all about. McMillan explains relationship styles and interactions in simple everyday language. She moves from the general – basic human emotional needs, to the specific – examples of ways to help us meet those needs by showing and gaining respect in our interactions with others.”
“Get Inside Your Relationships” is available at local bookstores and also at online bookstores or www.GetInsideYourRelationships.info.
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Earlier this month, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and a diverse group of statewide health care and technology agencies at the University of California (UC), Davis Cancer Center announced the launch of the California Telehealth Network (CTN), which will be the largest dedicated telehealth network in the country, and will enhance access to health care services and improve the quality of care for Californians.
“California is always leading the way with the most innovative and new technology that is changing the future. And, what we are launching today is a new era for health care,” said Schwarzenegger. “Through a simple broadband link, this state-of-the-art system will save lives by instantly connecting people from across the state, including underserved and rural areas, with the best and brightest doctors. The California Telehealth Network marks the beginning of a new digital highway that will fundamentally change the future of how health care is provided.”
The CTN state-of-the-art system will connect telehealth devices in medical facilities from all corners of the state. Today, the CTN is launching its first two remote sites at the Oroville Hospital in Orville and CommuniCare Health Center in West Sacramento.
This phase of the CTN will connect over 800 sites within three years. As the CTN will help to expand health care access, it will also provide significant security and performance improvements over existing telehealth networks, including the ability for time-sensitive or emergency transmissions to receive top priority.
The governor participated in a demonstration of the telehealth network today linking the UC Davis Cancer Center in Sacramento with medical personnel in three other California locations: the Oroville Hospital in Orville; UC Irvine Hospital in Irvine; CommuniCare Health Center in West Sacramento.
CTN is a public and private, federal and state partnership which can be used as a model across the nation as other networks are funded and established.
The network leveraged both private and public funding for a total of $30 million, including grants from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the California Emerging Technology Fund, the California HealthCare Foundation, UnitedHealthcare, the National Coalition for Healthcare Integration, the University of California and other private and public entities.
For more information about the CTN please visit www.caltelehealth.org/.
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