Where can kids walk through a giant ear, see how smoking damages lungs, and learn how what they eat and how they move impacts their health? Where else but at the area’s largest and most popular kid’s health education exhibit – Journey Through The Body, April 8 & 9 at Crossgates Mall. […]
Exercise boosts brain power. It also increases oxygen to the brain, which promotes the growth of brain tissue and tiny vessels that keep our thinking sharp. […]
Albany Memorial Hospital – an affiliate of St. Peter’s Health Partners, the region’s largest health system – has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes Albany Memorial’s commitment and success in ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. To receive the Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award, hospitals must achieve 85 percent or higher adherence to GWTG-stroke achievement indicators, and 75 percent or higher compliance with five or more GWTG-stroke quality measures for 12 consecutive months to improve quality of patient care and outcomes. GWTG quality measures are designed to help hospital teams provide the most up-to-date, evidence-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. They focus on appropriate use of guideline-based care for stroke patients, including aggressive use of medications such as clot-busting and anti-clotting drugs, blood thinners and cholesterol-reducing drugs, preventive action for deep vein thrombosis and smoking cessation counseling. […]
At Journey Through The Body, NewsChannel 13‘s Benita Zahn spoke with Dr. James Reed, president and CEO of St. Peter’s Health Partners, to discuss why it’s important for children and adults to learn about the human body and how to keep it healthy. Click here to watch the full story.
St. Peter’s Health Partners will host its 16th annual Journey Through The Body, a hands-on discovery adventure, on Friday, April 17, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Colonie Center in Albany. This free, two-day family community health educational event is designed to educate children and their parents about select parts of the human body and to learn about their functions, components, strengths and limitations, and ways to lead an active healthy lifestyle. The presentations are coordinated by clinicians from St. Peter’s Health Partners. Clinicians will be available to guide children and their parents through the models and answer questions. The goal of the program is to develop and promote healthy habits in children. At Journey Through The Body, kids can explore larger-than-life-sized models of the heart, brain, lungs, ear, teeth and more. Kids can walk through the giant, inflatable models of the heart and brain, getting an up close and personal look at how these important organs work. Boasting what is likely the Capital […]
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