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The Lighten Up! Weight Management Support Group, hosted by Sutter Lakeside Hospital Wellness Center, can help get you on track.
The 10-week program provides education, coaching, support and exercise to help individuals create a healthy lifestyle through the management of weight.
The program will cover such topics as understanding the health risks associated with weight; identifying the mental-emotional factors that promote bad habits; how to build a safe, healthy exercise program; understanding the basics of nutrition; as well as how to create an eating plan you can live with.
Sessions begin on Monday, Feb. 22, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Sutter Lakeside Hospital Healing House with classes facilitated by Leslie Lovejoy, R.N., Ph.D., physical therapist Joe Prisco and nutritional coach Vera Crabtree.
To register or for more information, call the Sutter Lakeside Hospital Wellness Center at 707-262-5171. Please inquire about the generous scholarships available to cover the cost of this program.
Participants will receive individual coaching to build a program that meets their needs and that will help them stay on track.
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Because ample supplies of vaccine are now available, people who would like to be vaccinated can choose from a variety of locations.
Lake County Public Health will provide no-cost H1N1 vaccinations to anyone over 6 months of age at the following locations:
– Wednesday, Feb. 3: Lower Lake Elementary School, 9240 Lake St., Lower Lake, 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
– Tuesday, Feb. 9: Lucerne Alpine Senior Center, 3985 Country Club Drive, Lucerne; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
– Wednesday, Feb. 10: Kelseyville Fire Protection District, 4020 Main St., Kelseyville; 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
– City of Clearlake: Date and time to be announced.
In addition, Lake County Public Health at 922 Bevins Court in Lakeport will provide the vaccine on a walk-in basis on Tuesdays between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. This will continue until further notice or until vaccine supplies are exhausted.
People can also check with their doctor, clinic or local pharmacist in order to get vaccinated.
Everyone is encouraged to be vaccinated in order to prevent additional waves of H1N1 illness in the coming months.
Vaccination with 2009 H1N1 vaccine continues to be particularly important for people in the initial target groups, including pregnant women; household contacts and caregivers of infants younger than six months of age; health care and emergency medical services personnel; all individuals six months through 24 years of age; and individuals 25 through 64 years of age who have medical conditions associated with higher risk of complications from influenza.
Children under age 10 years should receive two doses of the H1N1 vaccine at least one month apart.
Additional opportunities to receive the vaccine over the coming months will continue to be announced.
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The measure, authored by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), would enact a system of comprehensive, universal health care for every Californian.
North Coast Senator Patricia Wiggins (D – Santa Rosa) is one of the principal co-authors of SB 810, which next heads to the Assembly for consideration.
If approved by both houses of the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, SB 810 would establish a “single-payer” health care system to provide coverage to all 37 million Californians.
Essentially, this bill combines, under one administration, existing state-administered health care programs with the privately-funded insurance industry, and the state's uninsured.
A newly-created California Healthcare System would, on a single-payer basis, negotiate with providers or set fees for health care services and will pay claims for those services.
According to an analysis by Senate staff, “This bill establishes the Healthcare Fund, which will consist of two accounts – one to pay annual state expenditures for health care and another to maintain a system reserve. This bill provides that the premiums collected each year will be roughly sufficient to cover that year's projected costs.”
In addition, “This bill assumes that all current local, state, and federal trust fund monies used to provide health care coverage to enrollees in state health care programs will be transferred to the system.”
SB 810 has a lengthy list of supporters, including the California Nurses Association, the California Teachers Association, the California Alliance for Retired Americans, the Congress of California Seniors, and groups representing physicians and medical students.
Supporters state that as health insurance costs rise steadily, employers are reducing or dropping coverage for employees. They also say that the increase in high-deductible health plans, which require deductibles and co-payments which are often unaffordable, have failed to stem the rise in health care costs, and that half of all bankruptcies in the U.S. are related to medical costs.
The bill’s backers cite this as evidence that Californians can no longer rely on the current system of private insurance, as no one is guaranteed to receive care when they become ill, and many who are insured often have inadequate coverage. By contrast, SB 810 would provide every Californian with health care coverage that would provide comprehensive benefits and a high quality of care.
Opponents include America's Health Insurance Plans, Anthem Blue Cross, the Association of California Life and Health Insurance Companies, and the California Association of Health Plans.
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