From the Spring 2010 StayHealthy publication Turning 50? The Time is Now. Your timing Your first pair of reading glasses. Your first gray hair. Your first colonoscopy? That’s right, according to Stephen Paul, MD, a gastroenterologist with Digestive...
Safety
Porter Health System Presents Sleep Apnea Screenings
Porter Health System’s Sleep Disorders Institute will offer Sleep Apnea Screenings in June and July. According to the National Institutes of Health, sleep apnea is a condition that occurs when a person stops breathing repeatedly while sleeping and...
Porter’s ICU: Nationally Reviewed. Nationally Recognized
From the Spring 2010 StayHealthy publication While no one plans for life threatening events, some 90,000 Americans are admitted to intensive care units (ICU) every day. When someone is in an ICU, it means they are critically ill and require the type...
Detecting and Defeating Skin Cancer
From the May 2010 Senior Circle publication Skin cancer is on the rise. In fact, one in every five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime, which means the longer you live, the more likely you’ll develop skin cancer, according to Subha...
Porter Health System Goes Tobacco Free
Porter Health System announced that all of its facilities, including their grounds and parking lots, will become totally tobacco-free beginning June 1, 2010 – which coincides with the World Health Organization’s “World No Tobacco Day” on May...
Annoying or Alarming?
From the April/May 2010 Healthy Woman Publication Symptom: Trouble Finding the Right Words Likely cause: fatigue, stress, multi-tasking Worst-case scenario: Stroke It’s easy to laugh off a silly slip-up like forgetting a name or wishing someone a...
Portage Township Schools to Receive Gary Sandifur Award
On Monday, April 26, 2010 at 6:00 pm, Portage Township Schools will be honored with the Gary Sandifur Tobacco Free School Campus Award for instituting a campus policy making school grounds totally tobacco-free. This award will be presented at the...
National Kidney Foundation of Indiana to Offer Free Health Screening
The National Kidney Foundation of Indiana will conduct a free health screening for people at increased risk for kidney disease on April 23, 2010 at the Portage Township YMCA, 3100 Willowcreek Road, Portage, IN, from 9 am to 2 pm. The screening is...
Spring into Wellness Week at the Portage YMCA
Benjamin Franklin was quoted as saying that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Join the Portage Township YMCA, in cooperation with Porter Health Systems and NIOMS for their “Spring into Wellness” week event April 19 thru April...
Porter is Prepared
From the 2010 Winter StayHealthy publication If our community ever experiences a natural disaster or medical crisis that would cause an influx of patients, Porter is prepared. With the recent investment in a new portable hospital and the acquisition...