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The Therapy Program at Serving Others Healthcare focuseson maximizing functional independence through an array
of programs specific to each patient’s needs.
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Patients who are recovering from an injury, surgery or a medical event such as strokereceive comprehensive rehabilitation therapy to return to their highest level of healthand activity. Rehabilitation services combined with excellent nursing care result in thebest possible outcome for our residents.
When you come tous for rehab, ourjob is to get youhome faster!
Therepeutic ApproachOur therapists work one-on-one patientsto maximize functional independence, safemobility and comfort in their daily lives.
• Modalities• Pain Management• Joint Protection Techniques• Balance and Gait Assessment• Evaluation of the Skeletal and
Musculoskeletal System• Therepautic & Strengthening Exercise
The Goals of Therapy• Improve Balance• Minimize risk of falls/injury• Decrease pain of affected areas• Improve functional endurance forperformance of all daily living skills
• Patient education and self-management skills
• Increase activity level and safety,promoting optimal quality of life.
• Increase overall range of motion ofaffected areas.
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Community Healthcore has had the opportunity to begin a 15-week vocational apprenticeship program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
“It’s a contract with Health and Human Services,” said Program Supervisor Kath-leen Newton. “It’s a one year contract. It’s a grant that we began on Oct. 1. It is a 15-week program that will allow individuals with IDD
and dual diagnosis to learn and gain skills for integrat-ed supported employment in the community.”
The program links individ-uals to host employers in the community.
“It in is our desire at the end of 15-week program, that a Walmart or a Kroger or whoever the host provider is, they would hire them,” New-ton said. “In the event it does not work out, the individu-al has learned those basic entry level skills, customer service, stocking, greeting
customers, whereby they can take those same skills and go to another place and gain supported employment.”
The program is open to individuals in Community Healthcore’s nine county attachment area. It includes both classroom and time and time on the job with the host employer.
“In the classroom they’ll learn about professionalism; they’ll learn about how to do their time sheet. They’ll learn about those basic ADL skills and how to arrive to
work on time, how to dress for an interview,” Newton said. “So we have five hours in classroom and 12 hours on the actual job with the host employer.”
The first 15-week program began in October, starting off with about 32 people. Newton said they narrowed it down to about 14 and then selected 12 participants. They plan to re-enroll about 15 more in the coming weeks.
“We hope to open it back up for new candidates maybe the first part of December,
but if somebody’s interest-ed they can contact us for an application, we’ll gladly give that to them, and we let people know when we send out the applications, they’re more than willing and hap-py to send it back to us, but we have our 12 apprentice at this time, but when the next 15 week course starts, we’ll start interviewing for new positions,” Newton said.
The program does import-ant work offering “opportu-nities for vocational training in a supported integrative
environment,” Newton said.“So we are trying to link
them with electricians or plumbers or restaurant staff, any place that they have a desire to work, we’re trying to link them with those peo-ple in a supported integrated environment where they can learn those basic entry level skills,” Newton said.
Employers interested in partaking as a host employer can contact Kathleen New-ton at (903) 234-7002 or [email protected]
Community Healthcore begins vocational apprenticeships
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Christus Trinity Clin-ic is stepping up the fight against diabetes in East Texas with its recent open-ing of a new endocrinology clinic in Longview.
The clinic’s purpose is es-pecially significant during the month of November, as Diabetes Awareness Month serves as an opportunity to educate and inform people of the disease.
The clinic’s physician, Dr. Sowmya Boddhula, specializes in diabetes and metabolism. Boddhula said she works with patients who often have uncon-trolled diabetes, which can become threatening if a lifestyle intervention does not occur because of dia-betic ketoacidosis and the risk of having a heart at-tack or stroke.
In East Texas, Boddhula said her patients are most commonly living with Type 2 diabetes. These patients have insulin resistance, while Type 1 patients are insulin-deficient and must have insulin.
The investment into the new service line of endo-crinology provides for a full-service practice fo-cused on treating patients with diabetes, endocrine diseases, metabolic diseas-es and more. Highly trained providers work with pa-tients on conditions in-cluding diabetes, pituitary
diseases, hyperthyroidism, thyroid cancer, adrenal dys-function, osteoporosis and obesity. Patients also have access to advanced imaging services, like thyroid ultra-sounds and biopsies.
Boddhula said diabetes is a chronic disease and that it doesn’t start in a day. Symp-toms could develop over-time without the patient noticing, and depending on the risk factors and age,
they’ll get screened for di-abetes with a primary care physician.
Depending on the results of the exams, a physician will discuss lifestyle inter-ventions, medications and
physical activity changes.Boddhula said controlling
diabetes helps patients with their general health and they have a lower chance of developing heart disease, kidney dysfunction and oth-
er conditions.“My goal is to help pa-
tients when they need me most — and that means treating problems, but also education and prepa-ration,” she said. “I want to help them learn how to manage their diabetes on a daily basis by understand-ing the relationship be-tween a number of factors like medical nutritional therapy, exercise, medica-tions, emotional and phys-ical health, and blood glu-cose levels can help patients achieve a healthy, happy way of life.”
Brandy Moore, Vice Pres-ident of Physician Prac-tice Operations at Christus Trinity Clinic, said the clin-ic’s endocrinology special-ists are dedicated to provid-ing the highest level of care to patients across Northeast Texas.
“We are excited to be able to expand access locally to this community,” he said. “This is the care that this community needs, and by opening this new clinic, we are meeting the people of this community where they are.”
Before Longview’s en-docrinology service line, there was another Chris-tus endocrinology clinic in Marshall, many of those pa-tients are now visiting the Longview clinic. Boddhula said the clinic in Longview offers the same services and capacity as the clinic in Marshall.
New endocrinology clinic steps up fight against diabetes in East Texas
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Louraiseal McDonald demonstrates how she checks her blood sugar levels while speaking about living with Type 2 Diabetes, on March 11, 2016, at the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office in Marshall. Christus Trinity Clinic is stepping up the fight against diabetes in East Texas with its recent opening of a new endocrinology clinic in Longview.
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GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — As this year’s U.N. climate talks go into their second week, negotiations on key topics are inching forward. Boosted by a few high-pro-file announcements at the start of the meeting, dele-gates are upbeat about the prospects for tangible prog-ress in the fight against global warming.
Laurent Fabius, the for-mer French foreign min-ister who helped forge the Paris climate accord, said the general atmosphere had improved since the talks be-gan Oct. 31 and “most nego-tiators want an agreement.”
But negotiators were still struggling late Saturday to put together a series of draft decisions for govern-ment ministers to finalize during the second week of
the talks.“People are having to take
tough decisions, as they should,” Archie Young, the U.K.’s lead negotiator, said Saturday.
Here’s the state of play in four main areas halfway through the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow:
TOP RESULT FROM THE CONFERENCE
Each Conference of the Parties, or COP, ends with
a general statement. It’s as much a political declara-tion as a statement of in-tent about where countries agree the effort to combat climate change is heading.
A flurry of announce-ments at the start of the COP26 talks in Glasgow on issues including end-ing deforestation, cutting methane emissions, provid-ing more money for green investments and phasing
out the use of coal could be reflected in this final dec-laration. Even though only some countries signed on to each of those deals, others would be encouraged to add their signatures at a later date.
Affirming the goal of keeping global warming at or below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, compared to pre-industrial
times, is also seen as im-portant. With greenhouse gas emissions continuing to rise, host Britain has said it wants the Glasgow talks to “keep 1.5 C alive.” One way to achieve that would be to encourage rich polluters in particular to update their emissions-cutting targets every one or two years, rather than every five years as now required by the Par-is accord.
Glasgow climate negotiators seek to resolve 4 key challenges
