Taking Care of Your Child’s Health and Wellness during COVID-19
Like many aspects of daily life, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we think about and access healthcare these days. For families, that includes pediatric care for children. We asked Ramon Carampatan, MD, a pediatrician with Sierra Vista Medical Group, to talk about the importance of […]
Childbirth and COVID-19: Keeping Expecting Mothers and Newborns Safe at Canyon Vista Medical Center
By: Dana Albalate, MSN, MBA, RN-C, NE-BC, Director, Women and Children’s Services and Critical Decision Unit
Pregnancy always comes with its share of anxiety and fear, but the COVID-19 pandemic has added a new layer of concerns for expecting families. If you will […]
Taking Care of Your Mental Health During COVID-19
When it comes to protecting ourselves during the current COVID-19 pandemic, it can be easy to focus exclusively on physical health – making sure we are following CDC guidelines, practicing social distancing and doing everything we can to keep ourselves, our families and our communities safe and healthy. […]
Canyon Vista Medical Center is proud to join the American Nurses Association (ANA) in celebrating National Nurses Month this May, in an expanded recognition of the positive impact our nurses have on the health and well-being of our community. National Nurses Week – observed annually May 6-12 – honors the men and women around the […]
Canyon Vista Medical Center announced today that it is taking the appropriate steps to safely resume some elective and non-urgent surgeries and procedures that were previously rescheduled out of an abundance of caution amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The decision to reschedule procedures when clinically appropriate was made in accordance with federal and state […]
Minutes Matter: Don’t Put Your Heart Health On Hold During COVID-19
By Karen Reed, CNO
When a heart attack strikes, every minute matters. In fact, the first few minutes are critical in determining the short-term and long-term outcome for the patient. While the world continues to focus on the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, cardiovascular disease, or heart disease, […]
COVID-19: What Canyon Vista Medical Center is Doing and What You Can Do
It probably feels as if coronavirus – or as it is officially known, COVID-19 – is all anyone is talking about these days. As COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses like the seasonal flu continue to spread across the U.S., you also may feel […]
Eat Right, Bite by Bite: How to make good nutrition work for you
By Anna Keefe, CRD, CDE at Canyon Vista Medical Center
Eating healthy helps us get and stay healthy. And there’s no better time to adopt useful strategies for making good nutrition an essential part of your health journey than National Nutrition Month.® This year’s […]
In the Mix: Why it might be time to add routine colonoscopies to your health journey
It’s a scene many of us can recall. You arrive home from school, rush to your bedroom and tune your boombox to your favorite radio station. You pop in a blank cassette tape, or one you’ve recorded over so many […]
Thank you for joining us on this 29-day journey of heart health. We hope you’ve found it helpful and that you’ve learned something about your heart that you may not have known before.
Remember, heart health isn’t about a crash diet. It’s not about getting up at 5 am to run 10 miles every day or […]