Billie Sturgeon, NP, is now on the medical staff of Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center as a nurse practitioner specializing in neurosurgery. She is a member of the staff at Neuroscience Group.
Because May is Mental Health Awareness Month, we wanted to feature an employee who has been an innovator in the mental health field. Norma Czarnik, clinical substance abuse counselor with ThedaCare Behavioral Health, was instrumental in co-founding and co-facilitating National Alliance on Mental Illness Fox Valley’s first support group for teenagers who are living with mental illness. The Appleton-based group is now one of four NAMI Fox Valley teen support groups.
March 30, 2015 marks National Doctors’ Day and is a great opportunity to thank your own doctors for their service. Each of us, either personally or via family members, has been profoundly touched by a doctor’s compassionate care. Each doctor is committed to keeping us healthy or restoring us to health when sick, so it makes sense to take a few moments each year to acknowledge all they do to improve our lives.
Area students will learn about good nutrition and physical activity through ThedaCare’s new Good to Go initiative. From April 27 to May 1, ThedaCare employees will volunteer at six Northeast Wisconsin schools offering a variety of activities that promote healthy habits in students. Berlin schools will participate the following week, May 4 to May 8.
ThedaCare is hosting a free community program designed to help women who are experiencing challenges with conceiving a child. Rami Kaldas, MD, a board-certified gynecologic surgeon and obstetrician, of the Kaldas Center for Fertility, Surgery & Pregnancy, will facilitate “Dreaming of a Bundle of Joy, but Having Challenges?” on Tues., April 21. He will discuss fertility, diagnosis and available options on a budget. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.
Wild Rose Community Memorial Hospital and ThedaCare have long collaborated to improve the health of the communities we serve.
Dave Massonette said God was watching out for him and the crew of ThedaStar last November after a duodenal ulcer eroded a nearby artery, causing a life-threatening internal hemorrhage.
The benefits of the collaborative group’s Teaming for Health and Resiliency Improvement Via Education and Support, or THRIVES, classes are growing. “The studies are there,” said Marci Reynolds, RN and certified diabetes educator at ThedaCare in Waupaca. “We see the results here with participants and know these classes are making a difference in their health and well-being.”
Registration is now open for the 14th annual CHN Helping Hands for Cancer 5K Run/Walk. The big day is Saturday, May 16th, when Community Health Network will once again open its Berlin Memorial Hospital campus for people of all ages to have fun while raising money for a great cause!
If endometriosis is controlling your life, you do not need to leave the community to find help. This class is a discussion surrounding what endometriosis is, the impact on your life and treatment options available to you.
Jenny Goss, CNM, APNP, is now on the medical staff of Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center as a certified nurse midwife. She is a member of the staff at Women’s Care of Wisconsin.
ThedaCare welcomes Mary A. Connelly, MD, a physician specializing in integrative medicine for oncology, to practice at Appleton Medical Center.
Even though it doesn’t look like it outside, spring will soon be here. And just as flowers start appearing so do 5k fundraising runs and walks. These activities are great reasons to get outside and get exercise. But unless you’re an avid exerciser, you can’t wake up and just run a 5k. You need to train for it. You’ll need seven weeks to properly train for a 5k, which is 3.1 miles.
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