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The program is designed to help participants gain an understanding of the reasons behind overeating, build a realistic and effective exercise program into their lifestyle, develop a successful life long plan for weight management, and learn how to shop for, plan, and prepare healthy menus.
Participants will receive handouts and exercises for each topic discussed and will be encouraged to actively participate in exploring methods for improving mental, emotional and physical health in a supportive and safe environment.
The class will participate in some form of exercise during the last twenty minutes of each meeting. Participants will also meet with a coach to create customized goal and action plan to insure that each participant meets individual program goals.
“Lighten Up” meets ten consecutive Mondays beginning Jan. 5 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., in the Healing House, located below the Wellness Center on the Sutter Lakeside Hospital campus in Lakeport. The class will be facilitated by Leslie Lovejoy, RN, Ph.D., Holistic Wellness Coach. Additional speakers will include experts in nutrition and exercise.
To register or for more information call the Wellness Center at 707-262-5171.
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The UC Davis Proposition 1D Telemedicine Equipment Loan Program will provide videoconferencing units and peripheral medical equipment, such as specialized cameras, to health-care sites located within the health system's 33-county service area, which reaches from the Oregon border south to Merced County. To be eligible, partner sites must be a public or non-profit entity and provide care to underserved populations.
Interested health-care providers should submit a letter of interest and complete an online informational survey at www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/cht/proposition_1D between Dec. 9, 2008 and Jan. 6, 2009, at 5 p.m. PST.
The loaned equipment will be available to health-care sites and the communities they serve for an extended period of time. If, for some reason, a site no longer uses or needs telemedicine, or if the site’s status as a health-care provider changes, the equipment-loan program would enable UC Davis to redistribute equipment to other appropriate sites.
Telemedicine uses high-speed data lines linked to video units to connect large urban medical centers with community hospitals and clinics, allowing medical specialists to consult with community physicians and their patients via live, interactive videoconferencing.
The telemedicine program at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, for example, provides direct clinical care to patients at a distance, giving clinics and hospitals throughout the state access to more than 40 medical specialties not readily available in most smaller communities. Since it was established in 1996, UC Davis’ telemedicine program has conducted more than 20,000 telehealth consultations.
Telemedicine technology overcomes the lack of specialty medical care in rural and remote communities by providing a wide range of expertise, from pediatric critical care and radiology to infectious disease, dermatology and psychiatry. UC Davis is one of five UC medical campuses now assessing regional needs and accepting applications from interested health-care providers in its service area.
“We certainly need to produce more doctors, nurses and other health-care providers who are dedicated to practicing medicine in smaller communities,” said Thomas Nesbitt, executive associate dean for UC Davis Health System and director of its Center for Health and Technology, which is coordinating the equipment loan program. “But we also need to take advantage of the innovations in telecommunications so that highly trained specialists at academic medical centers like UC Davis can share their expertise with other clinics and hospitals. By approving Proposition 1D in 2006, California voters helped ensure that the most advanced health-care expertise eventually will be able to be delivered anywhere, at anytime, in the state.”
Following the close of the application process in January, UC Davis plans to review each submission and make recommendations to the UC Office of the President, which will make the final determination about equipment distribution to each site. It is anticipated that by the end of 2009 as many as 25 sites will receive a telemedicine equipment loan, along with installation support and training from UC Davis technical experts.
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The funds are administered through the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development’s (OSHPD) Song-Brown program.
Since the governor took office, he has awarded more than $33 million in Song-Brown funding which has supported nearly 7,400 training and education slots for family medicine residents, family nurse practitioners, physician assistants and registered nurses.
“There is a huge need in California for more health care practitioners, and the health care workforce training programs that are receiving funding have shown a commitment to helping meet this demand while also striving for higher quality, affordable and accessible health care across the state,” Schwarzenegger said.
The following 13 training programs received awards:
Sonoma State University, $253,737
California State University, Long Beach, $192,791
California State University, Fresno, $155,194
University of California, Davis, $107,000
Riverside Community College, $107,000
University of California, Los Angeles, $107,000
Keck School of Medicine – USC, $107,000
Charles R. Drew University, $107,000
University of California, San Francisco, $107,000
Stanford University, $107,000
San Joaquin Valley College, $62,446
University of California, Irvine, $43,416
Touro University, $43,416
The Song-Brown program was established by the Song-Brown Act of 1973 to increase the number of family practice physicians and physician assistants being trained in the state to provide needed medical services to Californians. OSHPD works in conjunction with the California Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission to award Song-Brown program funding.
Family nurse practitioners were added to the Song-Brown program in 1978, and in 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger expanded the program to include registered nurses. Song-Brown funds come from a fee on health facilities that go into a special California Health and Data Fund administered by OSHPD.
For more information about the Song-Brown program, please contact the program at (916) 653-0733, or visit www.oshpd.ca.gov/HWCDD/manpower/songbrown.htm.
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No tobacco use of any kind will be permitted indoors or outdoors on the hospital campus and at the family health centers in Clearlake, Middletown and Kelseyville.
“As a health care organization, St. Helena Hospital Clearlake is committed to the health and safety of its employees, patients and visitors,” said Linda Gibson, senior vice president of operations. “We have a responsibility to take a leadership role for this major health issue and are joining hospitals across the country in going tobacco-free to promote good health.”
Smoking is the No. 1 preventable cause of death in the United States, according to American Lung Association. The hospital is assisting employees and spouses who want to quit smoking by offering free cessation classes and providing educational materials and nicotine replacement therapies.
St. Helena Hospital Clearlake is a 25-bed critical access hospital serving the communities of Middletown, Hidden Valley, Cobb, Lower Lake, Kelseyville, Clearlake and Clearlake Oaks. For more information, visit www.sthelenahospital.org.
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