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Last call for #healthcare professionals 📣 Please join us for our 2024 Greg Smith Palliative Care Summit on September 15 & 16 at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park! We will be having conversations about: ✅ Professional advocacy ✅ Developing communication skills ✅ Hosting conversations around goals of care ✅ Facilitating team and family meetings ✅ Layering in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging ✅ Developing the specific protocol Palliative care becomes more important as our population ages, and we develop serious life-limiting illnesses with an increased symptom burden. Most importantly, it ensures that people have a voice in determining what care is right for them! Follow the link to learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/gxx5Etqw

Chronic pain can make getting through the workday tough. No one should live in pain 😖 Unfortunately, living with chronic pain is a reality for more than 20% of adults in the United States, and 70% of us will suffer from chronic pain at some point in our lives. Fortunately, here are many ways to ease your unique pain, whether you have discomfort from the spine, bones, joints, tendons, ligaments, muscles or headaches or migraines. Many of these conditions can worsen from screen time or being sedentary during the workday. 🎧 Tune in to hear Dr. Murthy, our interventional pain management specialist, talk about managing pain and follow the link for your complete guide to hope and solutions. 💙 https://bit.ly/3Z1EdgF

#NorwalkCt community 📣 Help us welcome Dr. Philip Corvo MD MA FACS as our chairman of surgery! Dr. Corvo is a nationally recognized surgeon, leader and educator with over twenty-five years of experience! His use of opioid-sparing surgery and tailored antibiotics may help patients have less pain, shorter hospital stays and lower infection rates. Dr. Corvo built a 3-D printing lab that enables him to create models of a patient’s anatomy, which may help improve surgical accuracy and patient safety. We are excited to have him leading our team and ensuring our community has world-class patient outcomes! 🔗 Follow the link to learn more about Dr. Corvo and his mission: https://bit.ly/4fYrTDU

As you scroll to this post, check your posture! 🤳🏽 Are you hunched over your devices for hours? Many of us spend countless hours staring at screens, often forgetting about our posture. This can lead to a condition known as “tech neck,” or in medical terms, cervical kyphosis. This forward curve of the spine in the neck can look and feel uncomfortable. You can prevent cervical kyphosis from developing and even improve it by keeping screens eye-level, and with exercises that restore the natural curve of your spine — think Pilates and yoga. 🧘🏽 Follow the link for Neurosurgeon Dr. Jeffrey Gilligan's, a spine specialist, explanation of why tech neck happens and how to improve it! #neurosurgeryawarenessmonth

Cognitive problems can be really scary — for the person experiencing them and their families. We understand and are committed to offering the best care for everyone’s emotional and physical health. 💙 Nuvance Health Medical Practice Primary Care now offers an at-home cognitive care program for people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early-stage dementia. We expanded the program from our Neuroscience Institute to help more people. 🧠 Neuroglee Connect™ is a comprehensive cognitive care solution with brain-stimulating, reminiscence and wellness activities. It also has resources for caregivers, including support for managing anxiety and stress. The individual and support person access everything from a mobile device. “It’s like a medical mental games app and many more brain-stimulating and wellness activities with physician supervision and tracking,” said Dr. Alex Mosteanu, regional medical director of Nuvance Health Medical Practice Primary Care East. “It’s like sending your brain to the gym.” “We want to reassure our communities they can access comprehensive, coordinated cognitive care. By reaching more people experiencing cognitive concerns early, we can improve outcomes, support caregivers and enhance the overall quality of life for those affected,” said Dr. Paul Wright, senior vice president and system chair of the Nuvance Health Neuroscience Institute. Find out how early interventions like this are helping to slow the progression of MCI and early-stage dementia symptoms.

Pack your kid's lunch with an extra punch — immunity-boosting foods! From Vitamin D to Omega-3's, make sure your bases are covered with a few simple meal prep ideas. 🔗 Follow the link for easy tips from Jeanette Lamb, Registered Dietitian: https://bit.ly/45M7Sun

You can help a difference in your community! Nuvance Health is pleased to be collaborating with our local health departments on the 2024 Community Health Survey, open for all adult residents to complete. Your feedback regarding health issues and ideas for improvement are critical to helping us understand and address the health needs in our communities. Please consider taking the survey and sharing the link with your friends, family members, and neighbors. It should only take 10 minutes to complete. Individual responses are anonymous and confidential. Survey results and other community information will be used to develop health programs in your area. Follow the link to take your survey: https://bit.ly/3YMfAo5

Brain aneurysms are common. What’s also common? Not knowing you have one! 🧠🔎 Many times, brain aneurysms are found by accident and cause no problems. When they cause problems, like a ruptured brain aneurysm, it’s a life-threatening medical emergency. A burst brain aneurysm usually causes the worst headache of your life. 🤯 🎧 Tune in as Dr. Jon Lebovitz, neurosurgeon and chief of neurointerventional surgery at Vassar Brothers Medical Center, explains brain aneurysms and the incredible noninvasive surgery to treat them.

Congrats to our stroke teams for earning national recognition for excellence in care! 🧠👏🏼 “We are honored to receive this national recognition, which reflects our commitment to excellence and continual improvement in stroke care. I am proud of our teams and grateful for their diligence, expertise and passion for helping people heal from a stroke,” said Dr. Wright, who is also the Endowed Chair in Advanced Technology in Neuroscience at Nuvance Health. The Nuvance Health Neuroscience Institute stroke program emphasizes a multispecialty approach, involving emergency medicine, radiology, neurology, neurosurgery, pharmacy, rehabilitative and more specialists! 💙 “We’re incredibly proud of our team’s dedication to quickly evaluating and treating strokes while genuinely caring for our patients,” said Aimee Derry, vice president of the Nuvance Health Neuroscience Institute. “Our communities in the Hudson Valley and western Connecticut can count on Nuvance Health’s hospitals to keep improving stroke care for them.” 🔗 Follow the link to read the full list of recognitions: https://bit.ly/4dqeylU

How our brains feel watching the #Paris2024 Olympics 💙 Did you know the feeling you get watching athletes perform at the highest level goes beyond excitement? When we experience awe and wonder, several key areas in the brain light up, enhancing our ability to plan, focus and make decisions. These parts of the brain also help us process the significance of what we are witnessing and integrate it into our understanding of the world. 🤯 Follow the link to explore the neuroscience of awe and wonder, the benefits to your health and ways to experience these daily. Plus! See how our Neuroscience Institute is harnessing these powerful feelings using VR to help brain surgery patients. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4dkxW42 📸: flo_pernet // https://lnkd.in/gPP-NMKK