Locals Dress Up To Fight Breast Cancer
Local residents Geoffrey Fairchild and Genevieve Salas are participating in the 2016 Avon 39 Walk to End Breast Cancer in New York Oct. 15-16. Each participate is asked to raise at least $1,800 in sponsorships to fight the disease. Fairchild and Salas with friends at Ashley Pond Park Friday use a unique mode of dress to raise funds and call attention to the cause. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com Read More
EPA Proposes Thousand-Fold Increase In Radioactivity For Drinking Water Following Emergencies – Public Comments Due July 25
Courtesy image/CCNSLAMC’s ED Changes Enhance Patient Care
Director Lori Coffelt of the LAMC Emergency Department LAMC News:
A native of Los Alamos, Registered Nurse Lori Coffelt has worked at Los Alamos Medical Center for 33 years, and the last 29 years have been spent working in the emergency room.
Now, as Director of the LAMC Emergency Department, she has overseen many changes in the last year. She credits the talented and seasoned nursing staff and their ability to work with the new medical group, Emergent Medical Associates (EMA), with the improvement in services.
“EMA brings a desire to improve our patient care experience and help with staff Read More
LAMC Receives Women’s Choice Award®
LAMC’s Emergency Department staff from left, Courtney Thompson, RN, Dr. Paul Mikkelson and Erin Warren, RN. Courtesy photoLAMC News:
Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC) has received the 2016 Women’s Choice Award® as one of America’s Best Hospitals for Emergency Care.
This evidence-based designation is the only Emergency Care award that identifies the country’s best healthcare institutions based on robust criteria that considers female patient satisfaction, clinical excellence, and what women state that they want from a hospital.
In the list of 360 award winners, LAMC, represents Read More
Genomics Conference Started When Human Genome Sequencing Finished
The 11th Annual Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future Meeting June 1-3 had more than 300 people in attendance, a capacity audience in the ballroom at the La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com
An annual conference of researchers, technologists and funders in the soaring field of genomics held its 11th event June 1-3 in Santa Fe. The conference has grown from about 70 people when it began in 2006 to more than 300 this year.
Chris Detter, founder and chairman of the organizing committee of the 11th Annual Read More
More Details On Humans, Pets And Tularemia
COUNTY News:
The New Mexico Department of Health offered this supplemental information to share with the community about humans, pets and tularemia:
How long are people contagious?
People are not contagious; a person with tularemia cannot spread it to another person.
Who gets tularemia?
Any person can get tularemia. This includes people from all parts of New Mexico.
What treatment is available for people with tularemia?
Early treatment with an antibiotic is recommended.
Do infected people need to be kept home from school, work or daycare?
No. Persons with tularemia cannot spread it to other Read More
Downwinders Compare Themselves To Hiroshima Victims
By ROGER SNODGRASSVictim To Victorious – The Healing Journey Informational And Care Meeting Thursday
Letter To The Editor: LAMC Exceeds My Expectations
By LELAND S. LEHMANThis letter of thanks and gratitude is addressed to the staff of the Los Alamos Medical Center Emergency Room and Medical Surgery Floor.
Due to an accidental overdose of ibuprofen last week, I was admitted to the emergency room at LAMC for a bleeding duodenal ulcer. I can’t express enough thanks and gratefulness for the kind and professional treatment that I received by the very patient staff and management of the emergency room.
I was then transferred to the second floor medical surgery wing for further care. Again I was treated with the most Read More
Domestic Violence: Bullying, Sexting & Other Hot Topics
By MAGGIE SMITH
Los Alamos
What, you may ask, does this have to do with domestic violence? A major component of addressing domestic abuse and violence is the effort to prevent it from happening in the first place. The challenge is to find out where that “first place” resides.
Various aspects of the behavior of middle and high school students have given rise to a considerable body of research. Bullying, one of those aspects, is certainly nothing new. Mark Twain, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Charles Dickens, and numerous other authors have included incidents of bullying in many of their widely read works, Read More
Accidental Falls And Managing Outcomes With Dr. Culley Christensen June 29
Dr. Culley ChristensenSave A Life & Restart A Heart – Learn CPR For FREE
LAFD News:
Every person in Los Alamos will have the chance to learn how to be a hero by attending the New Mexico Heart Institute’s 6th annual Project Heart Start event Saturday June 25.
The free event will teach Los Alamos families a “new” form of CPR called Compression‐Only Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (COCPR).
Sudden cardiac arrest kills more than 400,000 people in the U.S. every year, and nearly 9,000 of these cases happen in children under the age of 18. Many of these deaths could have been prevented if those close by had been aware of and taken a few simple, lifesaving steps.
If an adult suddenly
Zika Virus Hits New Mexico
Aedes aegypti in Tanzania. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim/www.micro2macro.net
Staff Report:
The New Mexico Department of Health announced Wednesday a second confirmed case of the Zika virus in the state.
The first case was discovered in March in a 46-year-old Bernallilo County man who was infected while traveling in Central America. The second case, announced Wednesday, involves a 40-year-old Bernalillo County woman who aquired the virus while traveling to the Caribbean.
Zika virus disease has been in the news for several weeks now and has many individuals concerned. Zika Read More
Luján Introduces Legislative Package To Improve Behavioral Health System In New Mexico
CONGRESSIONAL News:Friends Of The Shelter Launch Fundraiser For Puppy With Heart Condition
Nova Rey is a brave little shelter puppy who needs the community’s help. Courtesy photo
SHELTER News:
Near the end of April, a small, 8-week-old American bulldog/pitbull terrier mix was surrendered to the Los Alamos Animal Shelter.
All the owner wrote on the form was that the puppy had a heart murmur and that they couldn’t afford the medical costs. They also provided a CD with X-rays. Volunteers could feel the murmur with their bare hand.
Nova Rey snuggles with a shelter volunteer. Courtesy photo
In spite of her medical condition, Nova Rey was the most human-loving little girl they Read More
Deepening The Heart: Morning Of Meditation Friday
Luján Named To Conference Committee On Legislation Addressing Opioid Epidemic
CONGRESSIONAL News:Santa Fe Veterans Benefits & Resources Fair June 25
HHS On New Mexico Health Insurance Rate Changes
HHS News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Jonathan Gold, press secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, issued the following statement on New Mexico health insurance rate changes.
“Consumers in New Mexico will continue to have affordable coverage options in 2017. Last year, the average Marketplace premium among people with tax credits stayed the same at $127 per month, despite reports based on preliminary rate filings predicting increases of ‘51 percent’.
“People in New Mexico understand how the marketplace works, and they know that they can shop around and find coverage that fits Read More
