Tips to Quit Smoking
Within 24 hours of quitting smoking, your blood pressure and carbon monoxide levels improve. After two days, your sense of smell and taste improves. After two weeks, your heart attack risk starts to drop and your lung function improves. Our tobacco prevention specialist offers tips on quitting, improving your odds of success.
Understanding Grief
Grief may feel like riding a rollercoaster of emotions, since it comes in waves or cycles rather than straightforward steps. While there is no “right or wrong” way to grieve, a RiverStone Health Hospice bereavement specialist offers some ideas on handling emotions stirred by grief.
Use and Store Chemicals Safely
Properly using, storing and disposing of household chemicals, reduces the potential for serious accidents and injuries.
Colorectal Cancer Screening Saves Lives
Cancer screening tests save thousands of lives each year by catching it early, when it can be cured. Ask your healthcare provider about a simple screening test that can be done at home and returned to the lab.
Explore Options for Health Insurance
If you don’t have health insurance coverage through your job or another source, the Health Insurance Marketplace makes buying health insurance more affordable. Our specially trained counselors can explain your options and help you select a plan that meets your needs and your budget.
Helping Children Cope with Disappointment
Help your children learn to handle whatever disappointments life throws at them. Our social worker at the RiverStone Health Clinic at Orchard School shows how to turn childhood disappointments into life lessons.
Be Wise, Immunize
Getting an annual flu shot helps protect you, your family and your community from influenza. Experts advise that everyone 6 months of age and older get the yearly vaccine. Our Director of Community and Family Health Services tells which groups are most at-risk.
