There’s still time to join Live Healthy Iowa
Veterans Memorial Hospital is encouraging individuals in the area communities to sign up to participate in Live Healthy Iowa for the next ten weeks. The Live Healthy Iowa web-based program offers many advantages including personal online fitness tracking, weekly motivational emails and unlimited access to recipes, workouts and other health information, all easily accessible on the Live Healthy Iowa website.
Registration for Live Healthy Iowa is going on now. For a small fee, each team member will receive a Live Healthy Iowa t-shirt and a free magazine subscription to one of many popular magazines. To get a team signed up, go to www.livehealthyiowa.org and click the sign-up button.
Veterans Memorial Hospital is also teaming up during Live Healthy Iowa with the local schools, attending various sporting events and handing out information on Vitamin D and the benefits of a healthy vitamin D level, and how to simply have a vitamin D test at the hospital. They are also offering other materials on amounts of screen time for youth and performing various free wellness tests.
Veterans Memorial Hospital began offering walk-in wellness tests to help accommodate those individuals with rising health insurance premiums and deductibles that would forgo these important tests due to the cost. Individuals now have the option from a menu of wellness tests during select hours. While these tests do not take the place of regular medical care, they are a tool for patients to monitor their own health and wellness.
Anyone in the community is welcome to walk into the Lab between the hours of 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and request any of a number of tests, all without a physician’s order. Results are then mailed to the individual within five business days.
The following blood tests are offered at a low, individual, out-of-pocket rate: Cholesterol, Blood Sugar/Diabetes, Thyroid, Kidney Function, Uric Acid, Hemoglobin, Calcium, Liver Function, Vitamin D, Prostate Health, Potassium and Sodium.
Anyone interested in this service is asked to enter Veterans Memorial Hospital’s main entrance, stopping at the reception desk to register. The receptionist will provide a Community Wellness form. Individuals can then choose the test option(s) they would like to have performed. Or visit the hospital’s website at www.veteransmemorialhospital.com to download the community wellness testing form. The results will be mailed to the individual to share with their medical provider if they wish.
The Live Healthy Iowa 10-week challenge runs through March 30. Veterans Memorial Hospital will then be awarding all those in the 10-week challenge with a participation prize at the hospital’s annual wellness fair May 9.
For more information, call Erin Berns, Public Relations Director, at Veterans Memorial Hospital, at 563-568-3411.
