Health

Veterans Memorial Hospital Speech-Language Pathologist Steven Mazzafield offers a Stroke Support Group for individuals who have experienced a stroke, as well as caregivers and family members affected by stroke.

Monthly meetings are held the first Thursday of every month at 2 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH). The next Stroke Support Group meeting will be held Thursday, September 7 at 2 p.m. in the Large Conference Room.

This month, Mazzafield will be giving a presentation on the different types of strokes.  Anyone is welcome to attend who may want to learn more.

The Stroke Support Group provides opportunities to share tips, tricks or trials among participants, offer support for caregivers, and provide an opportunity for socialization.

This is Health Unit Coordinator Week. The role of the Health Unit Coordinator (HUC) is vital to the operations of the patient floor in any health care facility.  Veterans Memorial Hospital has three full-time health unit coordinators who help maintain the flow of patient care, providing support and communication to all staff and families on the patient floor.

Typically, the Health Unit Coordinator registers Emergency Room (ER) patients, receives incoming calls, coordinates patient admissions and discharges from the hospital, coordinates release of information, enters charges, orders supplies and enters patient information into the medical record.

Becki Estebo has been a Health Unit Coordinator at Veterans Memorial Hospital for three years. She feels the position is an important role for both the inpatient floor and ER departments. She states, “I’ve always wanted to work in the medical field and felt this would be a good fit as I love helping and caring for others.”

The next LifeServe Blood Center blood drive will be held Thursday, September 7 from 12-5 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in south Waukon.

The LifeServe Blood Center supplies Veterans Memorial Hospital with blood and blood products. 

Veterans Memorial Hospital has announced it will return to using Meduit to help with the collection of accounts for healthcare services. Meduit is the nation’s largest revenue cycle solutions company, serving over 1,000 medical facilities within 48 of the United States.

With the help once again of Meduit, Veterans Memorial Hospital will be able to provide cash acceleration to significantly improve financial performance. Veterans Memorial Hospital used the help of this outside agency with its account collections until the last few years and has decided to return to this same service.

Veterans Memorial Hospital Speech-Language Pathologist Steven Mazzafield offers a Stroke Support Group for individuals who have experienced a stroke, as well as caregivers and family members affected by stroke.

Monthly meetings are held the first Thursday of every month at 2 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH). The next Stroke Support Group meeting will be held Thursday, September 7 at 2 p.m. in the Large Conference Room.

The Stroke Support Group provides opportunities to share tips, tricks or trials among participants, offer support for caregivers, and provide an opportunity for socialization.

While strokes can happen at any age, risk of stroke is greatest as people get older with the majority of strokes occurring after the age of 70. Risk factors for stroke include obesity, sedentary lifestyle, binge drinking, diabetes, smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

The local Grief Support Group will be holding its monthly meeting at Veterans Memorial Hospital Tuesday, September 12 at 5 p.m. in the Meditation Healing Center, located just inside the main entrance of the hospital.

This informal meeting is open to anyone suffering from any type of loss, whether it be death, divorce, illness or some other grief.

Feel free to attend and bring a friend. This grief support meets the second Tuesday of each month at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon.
 

The Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH) Diabetes Support Group will hold its next meeting Thursday, September 21, at 10 a.m.   The meeting will be held at VMH in the Large Conference Room, located on the lower level of the hospital.

This diabetes class is open to everyone who has diabetes or has a friend or loved one with diabetes.  For more information on the Diabetes Support Group, call Angie Mettille, RN, at Veterans Memorial Hospital at 563-568-3411.

Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH) will be visiting Lansing’s Music in the Park Thursday evening, August 24, beginning at 5 p.m. and offering free blood sugar testing and blood pressure checks with immediate results by Angie Mettille, Diabetes Educator.  The hospital typically offers these two tests at many area events and often times catches individuals who unknowingly have high results. Both of these checks take just a few seconds to perform and are free of charge.

Veterans Memorial Hospital Community and Home Care - Allamakee Public Health is looking ahead to the month of September which is National Preparedness Month, to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for disasters and emergencies that could happen at any time.

“We want to encourage everyone in the area to remember to have a preparedness plan because disasters do happen,” states Sheryl Darling-Mooney, RN, Allamakee Public Health Supervisor. “In the wake of the devastation in Maui, we felt this was a good time to remind the public to have a plan. We can have very volatile weather in the Midwest and we encourage everyone to follow these suggestions from Ready.gov, to make a plan and be ready, just in case.”

Veterans Memorial Hospital has announced it will return to using Meduit to help with the collection of accounts for healthcare services.  Meduit is the nation’s largest revenue cycle solutions company who serve over 1,000 medical facilities within 48 of the United States. With the help once again of Meduit, Veterans Memorial Hospital will be able to provide cash acceleration to significantly improve financial performance. Veterans Memorial Hospital used the help of this outside agency with their account collections until the last few years and has decided to return to this same service.