Free Yoga at Hospital

This is a wonderful teacher. I plan on the noon classes.

Wed noon Apr 29 and/or Fri 5:30 pm May 1.

In the EIE Community Room, 3rd Floor MacLaurin, Newport Hospital*

All-Level Yoga for Beginners and Beginning Intermediate *

We start by centering in chairs and use chairs for some hip and back oriented poses. The rest of the class is a traditional well-rounded yoga class aimed at beginners and beginning intermediate students. No pre-requisites, you do not need to be a gumbie, at all. If you are looking to develop some flexibility, balance, strength and peace in a supportive, easy-going, wise environment, this may be the class for you.

The following week we will start a six week session: May – Jun 12, Wednesday noon or Friday 5:30 pm. Cost is $48 for a 6 week pass, $10 if you come for a single class. Single class $10First class is free for first time student. If the cost of the class is an issue in these troubled economic times, please just quietly let me know. We can always reduce or waive the fee. Sometimes the times you need yoga most are the times when you can least afford it. Newport Hospital volunteers are always free. The only way to know if it is for you is to try it! So come! This is the last evening session before the summer break; if you have been meaning to try this, now is the time.

Mid-day yoga at noon will continue through the summer. Janne Sahady, Registered Yoga Teacher Call 401-465-6577. Janne Sahady is a senior teacher at Innerlight Center for Yoga

Hiatus

The dearth of writing stems from preparing & then undgoing recent preventive surgery. Recovering now. I have only nice things to say about my recent stay at Newport Hospital

Free Yoga at Hospital

** These are great classes** I think the Noon one works for me.


You are invited to come to a free yoga class

Two classes – come to one or the other or both

Thurs. Oct 9, 2008 noon

Or

Fri., Oct 10, 2008 5:30 pm

Bring a friend, neighbor, relative, come by yourself – no obligation at all

In the EIE Community room on MacLauren 3rd floor in Newport Hospital (right off the central stairway)

Go in at the information desk on Powel Avenue and ask for directions.

Digital Mammograms at Newport Hospital

I went for my annual mammogram Sat. & appreciated the early call that there had been a number of cancellations & could come earlier.

The actual test takes hardly any time now- ?1o min. at most. The operator uses buttons to manuveur the equipment & received an immediate monitor pic.

Breast cancer is curable if detected early. Every woman needs one! An ounce of prevention & all that. There is now a center in Portsmouth which can do the same. The one in Newport is open 6 days/week. As a rule of thumb, women over 40 need one every year. These tests are said to reduce mortality by 30%. These digital pics along with new software are state-of-the-art.

Okay- a joke:

The Knob

A woman visited her plastic surgeon who told her about a new procedure called "The Knob," where a small knob is placed at the top of the woman's head and could be turned to tighten up her skin and produce the effect of a brand new face-lift.
Of course, the woman wanted "The Knob."Over the course of the years, the woman tightened the knob, and the effects were wonderful, the womanremained young looking and vibrant.

After fifteen years, the woman returned to the surgeon with two problems. "All these years, everything hasbeen working just fine. I've had to turn the knob many times and I've always loved the results. But now I've developed two annoying problems: First, I have these terrible bags under my eyes and the knob won't get rid of them."
The doctor looked at her closely and said, "Those aren't bags, those are your breasts."She said, "Well, I guess there's no point in asking about the goatee."

Health Care Meeting

Lt. Gov. Roberts will be explaining her Healthy R.I. Reform Act 2008 at the Newport Hosp. this Wed. at 6:30 pm.

We wouldn't be bogged down in all these villainous attacks against each other if we had universal health care coverage which the large majority of Americans want. Think how many items would be off the table if everyone had low-cost, good quality healthcare coverage. Let's ALL have the same coverage that the state leislators have which we pay for. Let's ALL have Ted Kennedy's health care plan which WE pay for. Instead of being nickle & dimed & persuaded that everyone should have high-cost, high-deductible coverage, why not change the discussion?

Really, how much lower can we go? Universal health care coverage- because it's time!

Yoga at Newport Hospital

Dear Enough is Enough students and friends,



Just a reminder - if you are not signed up for the next session of Enough is Enough, and would like to continue (or start) yoga, feel free to come to the next free yoga class at Newport Hospital: Thur Mar 6 at noon or Thur Mar 6 at 5:30 3rd floor MacLauren, right off the central stairway

Many thanks

Janne Sahady(401) 465-6577

Free Yoga Classes at Hospital

Sorry that I'm so late posting this. Yanna is a wonderful teacher. Even I can do this. You'll love it & I am NOT an experienced yoga devotee. I can't make the noon class, but perhaps another one.

Two classes – come to one or the other or both
Thurs Jan 10 2008, noon (more intro level)
Or
Thurs Jan 10 2008,5:30 pm (more experienced level)

Bring a friend, neighbor, relative, come by yourself – no obligation at all
In the EIE room on MacLaurin 3rd floor in Newport Hospital (right off the central stairway)
Go in at the information desk on Powell Avenue and ask for directions
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The next week beings a six week session
Oct 17 – Mar 21
Thursdays, noon
or
Thursdays, 5:30 pm $48 for a 6 week pass (can be split over several payments) or
drop in to single classes for $10 a class
Open to all. Mats provided. Just bring yourself in clothes that you can move in
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if you have any questions feel free to call me at (401) 465-6577
with warmest regards
Yanna

Shock Wave "Lithotripsy" at Newport Hospital

Have kidney stones that you will be unable to pass? Then this treatment may be just the ticket for you. "Lithotripsy" is dervied from Greek words meaning "stone crusher." I hope that it is for me. I have an 8 mm stone which presented in a med test. I was tested because I had a kidney stone attack 2 wks. ago.

Pain? You wanna know pain? I mean beyond childbirth, beyond a fracture elbow & a dislocated shoulder. Unrelenting, agonizing, throbbing pain so intense you can't speak, you can't even move. Do I have your attention now?

The last one I had was 30 yrs. ago. My sister has had a few & so did my Dad. Now it appears to be my turn.

There is some prep the day before, but not much. It most consists of taking "Gas-X" tablets. Evidently any gas present in the gut shows up as black on the pics they take, & that ain't good. It's an outpatient procedure served by a trailer that travels from hospital-to-hospital on a once/month basis here. After the procedure you go to a "recovery" room & then someone needs to take you home.

You are not awake during the procedure which involves shock waves aimed at the appropriate kidney. The hour long treatment consists of appx. 2000 waves sent with a muffled firecracker sound. Hopefully, only one treatment will do the trick.

There is some supposed "discomfort" afterwards. We'll see. 2 wks. afterwards more pics are taken to see if the stone is gone.

No, they can't do the same treatment for gallstones. It would crush it, but evidently the gall bladder doesn't drain so easily, so the stone remnants would remain. Darn!

My wonderful adventure begins Fri. morning. I have already completed the MOST important part of my pre-op- I showered!

What are your pain/stone stories? Like Ross Perot, I'm all ears.

Hospitalists at Newport Hospital

While I have not been hospitalized at Newport Hospital for a long time, members of my family have. I thought it odd that you rarely spoke with your own doctor, but instead another one. This doctor was one that I was not familiar with & know I know why.

These doctors are a "new type of physician specializing in the care of patients while they are in the hospital." Newport Hospital has nine of these specialists.

"Hospitalists" are a new, fast-growing specialty around the world & you'll be seeing a lot more of them.

They work ONLY in the hospital & take over for the PCP while patients are in the hospital. The advantage being that they are always available, review charts frequently, & can call for consults as needed. This can be difficult for the PCP to do. "Nurses seem to agree that hospitalists 'bring it together for the patient.'"

It's important for these doctors to have good communication skills as they do not know their patients or their families. Something has definitely been lost here, but in these days of so much to do for PCP's, this would seem to be a useful solution, I suppose. We found it difficult to communicate with these physicians with aging parents. Instead, you are often referred elsewhere with communications definitely suffering. Your PCP may still visit & communicate, but that may well be iffy.

As a patient it is often difficult to communicate when you're in the hospital to begin with - you don't feel well, are often medicated, & not exactly "with it." Still, there doesn't seem much choice as medicine now often seems to be run as efficiently as the oldtime assembly line. Keeping costs down as low as possible is de rigeur. Yes, something lost, but hopefully, something gained too. Not much choice, really.

Any comments?

Thanks to "Newport this Week" & reporter VIRGINIA TREHERNE-THOMAS for the info

Newport Hospital & Proposed Merger

**More Update - Andrew Martin's "Newport This Week" with info on the hospital response (joyous, I might add)

**Update - I corrected the article thanks to Jim McCaid of Hard Deadlines. Evidently the heat & humidity affected my reading ability. Thanks, Jim!

"The two hospital groups in Rhode Island, Lifespan and Care New England, have agreed once again to merge, proposing to create a seven-hospital conglomerate that would control two-thirds of hospital services in the state and establish an academic medical center at Rhode Island Hospital." Newport Hospital would be part of this.

The Providence Phoenix has another take on this (archived feature article). What it does see happening is little proof of cost savings & HUGE salaries going to CEO'S & other administration. This system is supposed to streamline testing & results to member hospitials.

"Rhode Island's top health-care execs, whose compensation has soared in recent years, are among the prime beneficiaries of the hospital consolidation trend of the '90s."

Thanks to Projo Medical writer Felice J. Freyer f& Prov. Phoenix Steven Stycos for much of the source info.