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HealthCurrents Issue 1, 2023
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Hitting Your Way to Better Health: Pickleball players like Teresa Getman enjoy this easy-to-learn aerobic workout that can be played indoors and outside. This fun game can help boost your fitness and heart health.
In This Issue:
Patient Stories:
Eating Healthy:
HealthCurrents Fall 2022
Speaking the same language. Patients like Mr. Valera have the right to receive medical attention in a language they know and understand, free of charge. Interpreting services are available at Lakeland for all appointments and emergency visits.
In This Issue
Patient Stories
Eating Healthy
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Breathe Easier (Abigail Greaves, Respiratory Therapist)
Watch what happens when a local Black-owned business and cardiologist come together to discuss heart health in our new short film, Matters of the Heart.
The large gap in homeownership rates between Black and white Americans is caused by years of policies and laws that have resulted in housing inequities. Keynote speaker, Natalie Moore, will unpack that history and how it relates to our health.
Structural Racism, meaning biases that have been built into the institution's people rely on, is a pervasive issue in the US.
After assistance from a Lakeland nurse, Nancey received intervention for a life-threatening condition in the nick of time.
Dr. Geronimus discussed weathering and the ways that structurally rooted biological and psychosocial processes shape health inequities in our society.
Dr. Choucair shares how his organization is working to improve conditions for health and equity
Dr. David Williams discusses institutional discrimination, individual discrimination, and structural competency.
Dr. David Williams discusses his research on ways to recognize and prevent implicit bias.
Dr. David Williams discusses his research on health inequities caused by racial discrimination.
Lory’s Place is hosting a Disney themed fundraising event open to the public on Thursday, April 6 at Union + Social located on 216 Court Street in St. Joseph.
Corewell Health leaders, physicians, community partners and patients marked the opening of the newest facility in Southwest Michigan yesterday in Niles.
Please welcome primary care provider, Chelsea Wagner, NP, to the pediatric and family care team at Southwestern Medical Primary Care in Niles and Buchanan.
A Corewell Health physician, Willie E. Lawrence, Jr., MD, FAHA, FACC, has been honored as Press Ganey’s HX23 Physician of the Year.
Corewell Health is pleased to welcome Ingrid Kwak, NP, to the heart and vascular medical staff. Kwak is seeing patients alongside ten cardiology physician specialists and seven advanced practitioners in Coloma, Niles and St. Joseph.
Join us at Lory's Place on February 22 from 2 to 4 p.m. to learn about resources and appropriate words to comfort a person grieving the death of a loved one. RSVP by February 17.
Blood supplies across the state remain low, with some blood types in critical need. Corewell Health, in partnership with Versiti Blood Center of Michigan, is hosting a series of community blood drives in February.
Corewell Health™ welcomes Danielle “Dani” Brown, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Whirlpool Corporation, as a new board member effective Jan. 1, 2023.
On February 6, 2023, Lakeland General Surgery in St. Joseph will see patients at the Center for Outpatient Services, located at 3900 Hollywood Road. They are moving from 2990 Niles Road.
The Society for Simulation in Healthcare has awarded the simulation training center at Corewell Health South full accreditation in the areas of teaching, education and systems integration.
Corewell Health Foundation Southwest Michigan, formerly Spectrum Health Lakeland Foundation, awarded a total of $224,016 in grant awards in 2022 through the Community Wellness Endowment.
Corewell Health South, formerly Spectrum Health Lakeland, recently released the 2022 cancer care report which looks at cancer cases locally.
Corewell Health South, formerly Spectrum Health Lakeland, gathered community members and leaders to mark the beginning of construction at the future site of the Center for Better Health and Wellness in Benton Harbor.
The Lakeland Pharmacy Shoppe has moved and is now open within the Corewell Health Lakeland Hospital in St. Joseph.
Out of 1,316 local babies born to date in 2022, Jayden and Charlotte were the most popular names this year.