Health

Spring 2009 NICU staff had the honor of meeting with the creative St. Agnes Day Service Center ladies and gentlemen who provide the unit with hand crafted blankets. St. Agnes center provides safety, health care, personal care and meaningful activities for …

Horizon Gymnastics Center offers a gymnastics class for girls and boys ages 10 – 25 who have developmental delay diagnosis.  Students will participate in a variety of fitness activities including flexibility & strength skills, tumbling, balance …

Winter 2009 When Porter Pharmacist Jeff Chin heard that Mandy Firnhaber had suffered a traumatic brain injury as the result of an automobile accident just before the Thanksgiving holiday in 2005, he offered to help in whatever way he could. “Mandy was a …

February 2, 2009 Dear Neighbor, We are beginning 2009 with wonderful news we want to share. HealthGrades- a national leader in rating health care institutions- has rated porter first in the region and third in the state for Coronary Interventional Procedures …

Winter 2009 A year after being launched, Porter’s Healthy Woman program has found a niche among a growing number of women in the region who have found information they can use to improve both their health and well-being. Some of the programs have …

From the Winter 2009 issue of StayHealthy Magazine As soon as Emergency Department physicians at Porter’s Valparaiso Hospital Campus saw Angela Coleman, they knew she was dying. Less than 24 hours earlier, the young wife and mother of four appeared to …

Free health screenings are available at Village Park Banta at 605 Beech Street from 8:30a – 11:30a on February 26 by Porter Hospital’s Road to Wellness program.  No appointment is needed and fasting is not required.

Do you skip your workout when you’re feeling under the weather?  Studies performed by Ball State University suggest that it may be best to keep up the pace, even if you have a cold. Dr. Kaminsky and his colleagues infected volunteers with a …

We are all born with the intuitive knowledge to eat when hungry and stop when satisfied.  Think back to when you were a child (or, if that is too long ago, think back to when your children were very young!).  Until “rules” are imposed by …

1 cup peanut butter1 cup brown sugar1 egg That is the original recipe in it’s entirety, but I’ve always added 1/2 cup oatmeal to bulk it up a bit and add some texture. This is the only thing I think I’ve ever cooked that I don’t need …