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Leonard: Using Natural Movement To Age In Reverse

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By LAURA LEONARD
Doctor of Chiropractic
Los Alamos

Tensegrity is a concept in engineering where structures are designed using tensile strength rather than strong foundations with support beams. Architect Buckminster Fuller, coined the term when he began working on alternative modes of building that would allow us to go lighter, cheaper, stronger and higher while maintaining superior structural integrity.

Buckminster described these systems as “self-tensioning structures composed of rigid structures and cables, with forces of traction and compression, which form an integrated Read More

New Mexicans To Receive Extension On Reduced Health Care Costs

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BEWELLNM News:

ALBUQUERQUE — President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act Tuesday, Aug. 16. The new law will help reduce health care costs for New Mexicans.

It extends federal health-insurance subsidies for up to three years and allows the government to negotiate prescription drug prices for seniors on Medicare while capping the amount they pay for out-of-pocket costs.

“New Mexicans will now be able to take advantage of low-cost health care and maintain the most comprehensive and affordable health insurance options available,” said Maureen Manring, Director of Communication Read More

LAFC Welcomes New Prescriber Theresa Wussow

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By JORDAN REDMOND
Executive Director
LAFC

Los Alamos Family Council (LAFC) is so excited to announce the addition of a new full-time prescriber joining our team at the Counseling Center!

Theresa Wussow is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who will be providing fulltime medication management and psychiatric services for LAFC clients.

For the past several years Dr. Deepa Nadiga and her psychiatric nurse practitioner, Barbara De Nevers, have been taking time away from their personal practice to offer medication management services to LAFC.

During a meeting this spring between the psychiatric Read More

Chart 668: Los Alamos Marks 3rd COVID-Related Death In As Many Weeks

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This chart displays the cumulative number of COVID-19 related deaths in Los Alamos versus date. New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) reports the 21st death since the start of the pandemic in Los Alamos County.  The latest COVID-raletd death is the 5th in the past 7 weeks. Source: NMDOH. Created by Eli Ben-Naim Read More

FSN: Trauma & Parenting Virtual Series Begins Sept. 1

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FSN News:
Family Strengths Network (FSN) is offering a 6-week virtual series for parents who have experienced trauma, toxic stress and/or adversity for themselves or are parenting children with these things in their history.
Program participants will receive the following: 
  • 90-page full-color workbook
  • 12 hours class time
  • 30 minute consultation included for each student + individualized resource list 
  • book on the topic of trauma & parenting
  • emailed certificate 
  • Access to Trauma & Parenting Connection Group via Facebook for continued support
  • Instructor Available via email/Marco
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Senior Centers Begin Gradual Return To Services

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Courtesy/LARSO 

LARSO News:

The local senior centers will try once again, a gradual return to services.

Temperature checks are gone, and masks are optional for members.

Staff are required to remain masked and additional safety protocols are still in place.

“We just ask that members are cautious and understand that the virus can present as a sore throat and come across as allergies or the flu,” Executive Director Bernadette Lauritzen said. “Please stay home or mask, if you aren’t feeling right. If you’ve been in the center and test positive, please let us know right away.”

LARSO hopes the community Read More

On The Job With Los Alamos Health Providers Roundtable

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On The Job at a recent zoom meeting are members of the Los Alamos Health Providers Roundtable, clockwise from top left, Lyn Haval of LA Cares, Jeremy Varela of Las Cumbres Community Services, Ellen Specter of First Born Program, Diana Martinez of The Family YMCA, Devon Hoffman of JJAB and Steve Laurent of Los Alamos Community Foundation (LACF). The Los Alamos Health Providers Roundtable is a followup to the original Los Alamos Community Health Council, which disbanded when the council was formalized as a county board and the free-form updates and collaborations became unworkable. In 2011,
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Chart 667: Los Alamos Returns To Green On CDC Map

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Thursday, Aug. 11, its weekly update to the COVID-19 community level map. The CDC framework designates community level based on diagnoses and hospitalization levels (Link). Los Alamos was downgraded to green, after three months of elevated community levels. Masks are recommended for all in countries at the highest, red, risk level. Masks are recommended for at-risk individuals in counties at the intermediate, yellow, risk level. Source: CDC. Map: mapchart.net. Created by Eli Ben-Naim Read More

New Mexico Friends Of Foster Children Non-profit Announces Expansion Of ‘It’s Your Birthday!’ Program

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Courtesy/Barbara Cotton

NMFFC News:

ALBUQUERQUE — With support from the Nusenda Community Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield New Mexico, Walmart Community Grants (from Eubank store #835), the LANL Foundation, and private donors, New Mexico Friends of Foster Children (NMFFC) has announced the expansion of the “It’s Your Birthday!” program.

This program gives each foster child or youth a gift chosen especially for them, along with an age/interest appropriate book and a personalized card. Older youth may opt for a gift card. To participate in this program, foster families, case workers, Read More