Pacific Hopsital of Long Beach
Monday, May 20, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Congratulations Hanna Tran, May 2013 Customer Service Employee of the Month!
PHLB would like to congratulate Hanna Tran of Accounting as our May 2013 Employee Of The Month.
Hanna did her best to accommodate the mother of a BHU patient needing to visit her son early. She translated for her and even made sure she had a ride back to Orange County.
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Free Health Fair at Jackie Robinson Academy - May 13th to 17th
As part of our community outreach efforts, we will be teaming up with the Jackie Robinson Academy to provide much needed health screenings to the students and their families at no cost. Special thanks to the Medical Education Department for making this happen.
Spread the word about our upcoming health fair on May 13th - 17th:
Health Fair May 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th
7:30am to 10:00am and 12:30pm to 3:00pm
Free medical services include:
- Pulse/blood pressure
- Sugar
- Heart/Lung
- Basic Physical Screening
- Body Mass Index (BMI)
- Ask a Physician
No appointments necessary!
The health fair will be located at:
Jackie Robinson Academy
27540 Pine AvenueLong Beach, CA 90806
(562) 492-6003
The Scoop on Nursing Pins, PHLB’s Newest Tradition
Nurses make a huge difference in our hospital because of their uniquely challenging and multi-disciplined role. The word nurse comes from the Latin word "nutrire" which means to nourish. Indeed they do. They use their varied knowledge of anatomy, first aid, nutrition, physiology, medicine practices, and others in order to heal with compassion and perform with distinction.
As we celebrate their passion for the profession and their strong commitment to patient safety, we have started a new tradition at PHLB. We have designed and gifted a custom made nursing pin as a symbolic reminder of their accomplishments. This "pinning" tradition will be done every year during Nurse’s week going forward. We will make every effort to come up with a new and unique design every year to make these pins special, and perhaps even collectible.
In the Nursing world, a pinning ceremony is a symbolic welcoming of newly graduated nurses into the nursing profession. These pins often represent the history of the individual nursing program or school. The new nurses are presented with nursing pins by the faculty of the nursing school. Often the nurses recite the Nightingale Pledge.
Some nursing schools have stopped holding the pinning ceremony, claiming it is an outdated ritual. The pin is still worn as part of nurses' uniforms today, in such cases, before or even after they graduate from their respective nursing schools and work for medical institutions, such as hospitals and health and wellness centers.
It’s our hope that our small gesture will help re-energize that big nursing heart as we pause and reflect on last years accomplishments, challenges, hugs, tears, and smiles that are inherent of the nursing profession.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
May is Mental Health Month: 31 Ways to Wellness Calendar
Check out this calendar/to-do-list provided by Mental Health America:
For each day during the month of May, it gives you a task to complete to help you move forward on the road to wellness.
For example, on May 1st:
You can download the whole calendar below:
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
May is Mental Health Month: Pathways to Wellness
For more than 60 years, Mental Health America and our affiliates across the country have led the observance of May is Mental Health Month by reaching millions of people through the media, local events and screenings. This year's theme is Pathways to Wellness.
Key Messages
- Wellness - it's essential to living a full and productive life. It's about keeping healthy as well as getting healthy.
- Wellness involves a set of skills and strategies that prevent the onset or shorten the duration of illness and promote recovery and well-being. Wellness is more than just the absence of disease.
- Wellness is more than an absence of disease. It involves complete general, mental and social well-being. And mental health is an essential component of overall health and well-being. The fact is our overall well-being is tied to the balance that exists between our emotional, physical, spiritual and mental health.
- Whatever our situation, we are all at risk of stress given the demands of daily life and the challenges it brings-at home, at work and in life. Steps that build and maintain well-being and help us all achieve wellness involve a balanced diet, regular exercise, enough sleep, a sense of self-worth, development of coping skills that promote resiliency, emotional awareness, and connections to family, friends and community.
- These steps should be complemented by taking stock of one's well-being through regular mental health checkups and screenings. Just as we check our blood pressure and get cancer screenings, it's a good idea to take periodic reading of our emotional well-being.
- Fully embracing the concept of wellness not only improves health in the mind, body and spirit, but also maximizes one's potential to lead a full and productive life. Using strategies that promote resiliency and strengthen mental health and prevent mental health and substance use conditions lead to improved general health and a healthier society: greater academic achievement by our children, a more productive economy, and families that stay together.
May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month
U.S. Asthma Capitals
Today more than 300 million people worldwide are living with asthma, and nearly 25 million of them live right here in the U.S. But for all the talk of the global asthma epidemic, there are plenty of everyday reminders that asthma problems – and solutions – are local. There is no place free from asthma triggers, and some cities are more challenging places to live than others, like Memphis, TN, which has just been named the new top "Asthma Capital" for 2012 by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA).
It's Not Just About Air Pollution
Air pollution isn’t the only trigger for asthma, so to determine the rankings, researchers look at 12 sets of data for the 100 largest U.S. cities including prevalence factors, risk factors and medical factors. Memphis has appeared on the Foundation's list for several years, including as #3 on last year's list. Factors such as high pollen counts, poor air quality, frequent ozone days, no public smoking bans, high use of asthma medications all contributed to Memphis' rise on the list to the #1 spot this year.
To create the rankings, AAFA assesses the 100 largest U.S. cities based on air pollution, ozone days, pollen counts, medication utilization, poverty rates and even public smoking laws – 12 factors overall – to produce a truly intimate profile of each city illustrating how challenging it is for people with asthma. Then, AAFA scores and ranks the cities based on the factors.
Asthma Triggers: Gain Control
Americans spend up to 90 percent of their time indoors. Indoor allergens and irritants play a significant role in triggering asthma attacks. Triggers are things that can cause asthma symptoms, an episode or attack or make asthma worse. If you have asthma, you may react to just one trigger or you may find that several things act as triggers. Be sure to work with a doctor to identify triggers and develop a treatment plan that includes ways to reduce exposures to your asthma triggers.
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