Articles Posted in the The Pulse Category
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The Pulse
APRIL IS… Alcohol Awareness Month Autism Awareness Month Donate Life Month Minority Health Month Oral Cancer Awareness Month —— Governor signs breast density bill Governor Bob McDonnell signed HB 83, requiring facilities that offer mammograms…
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March is… National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month National Endometriosis Awareness Month National Nutrition Month —- The Stroke Belt Virginia is in the “Stroke Belt” of the U.S. where mortality rates for stroke are higher than the rest…
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FEBRUARY IS… Heart Month Children’s Dental Health Month National Cancer Prevention Month Chocolate Lovers’ Month Wise Health Consumer Month AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month —- A Generous Gift Erica Comber of Comber Physical Therapy (left) supports…
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Pizza…A VEGETABLE? While the United States Congress was busy with its decision that pizza is a vegetable, the European Union brain trust was banning advertising claims that water prevents dehydration. The European Union concluded a…
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Success Reported
At Virginia Women’s Center for patients’ ability to use the secure online patient portal. The portal allows patients to schedule appointments, send messages to their care team, request prescription refills, receive lab and test results…
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Honored
Buford Road Imaging Center and Chesterfield Imaging Center, part of the HCA Virginia Health System, for excellence in patient satisfaction. Both facilities are the recipients of CTQ Solutions’ APEX Quality Award, which was only given…
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Fluoridation Voted Out
The Pinellas County (Fla.) County Commission in early October voted to discontinue the practice of adding fluoride to its drinking water. Fluoridation, as it is called, has been a common practice in the United States…
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Awards
Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF), with second consecutive 4-star rating from nation’s largest independent charity evaluator, Charity Navigator. The Hampton, Va., based PAF is a national non-profit organization that seeks to safeguard patients through effective mediation…
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Black Death Deciphered
Working with a skeleton from a London graveyard, scientists solved the genetic code of the Black Death plague that wiped out as much as a third of the European population in the mid 14th century.…
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Elected
Donna Dittman Hale, as Interim Executive Director of The Arc of Greater Williamsburg. Her appointment follows the resignation of Pamela McGregor, who served as the Arc’s Executive Director since 2006.
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Donated
A $22,000 diagnostic device, to the Lions Center for Sight at Sentara Norfolk General, courtesy of the Lions Charity Foundation of Eastern Virginia and the Lions Medical Eye Bank. The device aids in the diagnosis…
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Medical First
For Riverside Regional Medical Center, the first hospital in the state to introduce the next generation of da Vinci surgical robotic technology. The advanced robotic platform of the da Vinci is equipped with high definition 3-D…
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Free Screenings
Will be offered Nov. 8 and Nov. 10, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., and again from 2 to 3 p.m., at Women’s Health Physical Therapy, 1919 West Huguenot Road, Suite 202. Call (757) 379-3002 to…
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Merged
Tidewater Physical Therapy (TPT) and Southside Physical Therapy. The merger aligns Southside PT’s 22 employees and three clinics with TPT’s Performance Center and 27 therapy offices, located in South Hampton Roads, the Virginia Peninsula, Williamsburg,…
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The Pulse – September
MOVING DAY After 30 years of providing inpatient care, Sentara Bayside will moves those services to the newest acute-care center, Sentara Princess Anne Hospital, that opened its doors on Thursday, Aug. 4. Sentara Bayside will…
