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Dr. Celeste Raffin: The Facts About Naloxone

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Los Alamos Health Council News:

Dr. Celeste Raffin is a board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician who practiced for 30 years in Emergency Departments in California and Utah. She recently joined the Los Alamos County Health Council in order to help advocate and advise on health-related matters in the community.

Dr. Raffin comes to the council with extensive experience in the treatment of opioid and other drug overdoses and the lifesaving properties of naloxone.

The following is her perspective on Naloxone:

Opioid overdoses have become a public health catastrophe in New Mexico affecting Read More

Oppenheimer Festival 2024 To Feature: ‘First We Bombed New Mexico’ At SALA Los Alamos Event Center

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SALA News:

The Oppenheimer Festival 2024 is proud to announce the inclusion of the powerful and evocative documentary, “First We Bombed New Mexico”, as a featured highlight of this year’s festival. This documentary sheds light on the untold story of the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear bomb detonation in New Mexico, and its devastating impact on the local Hispanic and Native American communities.

About the Documentary:

“First We Bombed New Mexico” delves into the harrowing narrative of the Trinity test, conducted one month before the bombing of Hiroshima. It exposes Read More

LARSO To Host ‘A Matter Of Balance’ Fall Prevention Program

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Instructors Judy Lovejoy, back row left, and Kate Cleveland, front row left, stand with some recent graduates of the  ‘A Matter of Balance’ class. The 8-session class is an evidence-based, free program offered by the Los Alamos Retired and Senior Organization (LARSO). Courtesy/LARSO

LARSO News:

Fourteen months ago, the White Rock and Betty Ehart Senior Activity Centers re-launched their “A Matter of Balance” program. Five 8-session classes have taken place during that time, educating older adults about fall prevention while also allowing them to enhance their skills and increase their Read More

Los Alamos Community Foundation Receives Multi-Year Funding From Anchorum Health Foundation To Strengthen Operations

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LACF News:

Los Alamos Community Foundation (LACF) will receive $150,000 along with continued financial support for five years from Anchorum Health Foundation, which is partnering with community foundations across northern New Mexico. This investment acknowledges the vital role that community foundations, like LACF, play in enhancing community health and well-being.

“We are looking forward to working with the Anchorum Health Foundation, an organization that shares our dedication to community collaboration, to strengthen the health and wellness of Los Alamos County,” LACF Executive Read More

Kristin Kosiewicz Substance Abuse Awareness Scholarship Awarded To 2024 LAHS Graduates Layton Laeser, Rebecca Li, Akshay Swaminarayan, Arianne Terrones

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Arianne Terrones, Akshay Swaminarayan, Layton Laeser and Rebecca Li with Stan Kosiewicz and Amy Anderson, center. Photo by Jessica Booton

LAPS Foundation News:

LAPS Foundation announces Layton Laeser, Rebecca Li, Akshay Swaminarayan and Arianne Terrones as the 2024 graduates selected for the Kristin Kosiewicz Substance Abuse Awareness Scholarship this year.

This is the third year for the scholarship which is awarded in memory of Kristin Kosiewicz, a 1993 graduate of Los Alamos High School who passed away on September 26, 2021. The scholarship’s purpose is to increase awareness of the Read More

Heinrich, Peters Lead Dozens Of Lawmakers In Urging DOT To Reduce Methane Emissions, Finalize Strong Gas Pipeline Leak Rule

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From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Representative Scott Peters (D-Calif.), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led 40 lawmakers in a bicameral letter to Secretary Pete Buttigieg calling for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to swiftly finalize a strong Gas Pipeline Leak Detection and Repair Rule. 

The rule, which PHMSA is required to establish under the Read More

Dannemann: Monitoring The Invasion Of Private Equity Into Healthcare

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By MERILEE DANNEMANN
Triple Spaced Again
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

Healthcare companies should never have profit as their primary mission, don’t you think?

There’s a genuine conflict between the profit motive and what healthcare is supposed to accomplish: providing a service that heals people’s illnesses or helps them stay healthy. For a healthcare institution to be successful, profit has to be tempered with giving priority to the wellbeing of patients.

America has been struggling with this conflict for decades, because so much of our healthcare is provided by for-profit entities. Read More

Edkin: Planning Ahead Is One Of The Brightest Gifts…

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By AMBER EDKIN
Funeral Specialist
Rivera Family Funerals & Cremations

It has been my pleasure to work with Jack Allison of Los Alamos Visiting Nurse Service, Inc. and Jennifer Reik of EGIS Complete Care, Inc. in establishing an article to regularly address questions revolving aging and wellness, and I appreciate their trust in my area of the aftercare of our deceased.

In light of the recent Beetlejuice revival, there is no “Handbook for the Recently Deceased” that I have been made aware of. However, you CAN leave a “Handbook for the Recently Deceased’s Family”. Despite our human nature for Read More

Fuselier: About Grief

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By BOB FUSELIER
Los Alamos

If you had asked me before my retirement if I thought that my perspectives of life would change much after my retirement I would’ve answered, “I doubt it, no”. Of course, I never thought then that the death of one of my adult children would be what dictated the timing of my retirement.

Mike’s death flipped our world upside down. My wife Susie and I suddenly found ourselves members of the worst club there could be; parents who have lost a child. Yet, we discovered immediately that the experienced members of the club are some of the most amazing people we ever met.

We feel the sense Read More