August 5th, 2010
Healthy Kids in Healthy Families Clinic
The Mall in Columbia
August 21 from noon to 4 p.m.
Lord and Taylor Court
An important part of Howard County General Hospital’s mission is to improve the health of our entire community, and there’s no better way than by getting our children off to a healthy start in life. We can promote keeping them healthy by making the entire family aware of healthy lifestyle choices.
As part of its ongoing partnership with The Mall in Columbia, HCGH is hosting the Healthy Kids in Healthy Families Clinic on Saturday, August 21 from noon to 4 p.m. in the Lord and Taylor Court. There will be something for all family members at the clinic, including screenings for:
- Asthma
- Youth: height, weight, development
- Adults: height, weight and BMI (body/mass index)
- Scoliosis
- Bone Density
- Blood pressure
There will be booths offering the following:
- Ask the pediatrician
- MdChip: Child Identification Program
- Animal Control information
- Enhancing children’s nutrition
- Health and safety tips for kids
- Physical fitness for the family
- Health insurance information for the uninsured
Columbia Association will offer a martial arts demonstration and the Kangaroo Kids will demonstrate their precision jump rope skills.
Join us on August 21 to help make your family and your community a healthier place to live!
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July 29th, 2010
Mr. Walter Culver
As the community hospital for many in Howard County, the Howard County General Hospital staff is proud to share in some of the most important moments of our patients’ lives…some happy, some sad, and some bittersweet. Recently, a terminally ill patient, Walter Culver, chose to conclude his life with dignity and grace and, in the process, touched the lives and hearts of his HCGH care givers and other employees.
In his own successful career as an interior designer – his work has been published nationally and he has worked internationally – he observed that many of his wealthy clients were discontent, always looking for happiness through material acquisition rather than taking joy in their work. The following passage that he wrote and shared with HCGH staff demonstrates the important role he felt professional passion plays in a person’s career, making it clear that he felt his care team displayed such passion in their work as healers.
To my care givers,
Passion is the key ingredient to professional success. Also, passion is your passport to mobility, recognition and professional rewards; to be all that you can be. Without passion, a man is burdened with self-doubt, poor people skills and disregard for empathy and compassion.
Yes, passion is the blunt force that makes your professional pursuits possible. If you find you don’t have passion for your professional pursuits, you will never achieve your long-term goals to give all you can to those who are dependent on your positive reinforcement and your genuine desire to give, to be, to share all that you have. To make the stranger who walked into your life well.
To those who chose to be healers; to those who chose to give unconditionally; to those who chose to hold hands, to look into a stranger’s eyes and give a hug of compassionate care; to those who have used their professional people caring skills, “passion,” to quiet my fears and give me the opportunity to heal emotionally, giving me the rational foothold to make hard decisions, I say a heartfelt thank you.
I have chosen to change the course of my coexistence. Because of you being gifted, caring health professionals, I have become ready to march on. I am at peace.
Thank you,
Walter Culver |
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