Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 - Mason County Journal - Page A-15
HEALTH BRIEFS
Learn to be first
responder at
hospital class
A class on first aid, CPR and auto-
mated external defibrillators is offered
by Mason General Hospital & Family
of Clinics from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sept. 11
in the hospital's Learning Center, next
to the Shelten McDonald's on Olympic
Highway North.
Students will learn the basics of
being first responders in a medical
emergency. A course completion card
is awarded at the end of the session.
The cost is $35 in exact cash or check,
and includes a book and course materi-
als. The deadline to register is Sept. 1 by
calling the Learning Center at 427-3609.
Comfortable clothing is recommend-
ed. A Spanish-speaking interpreter is
available upon request.
There is a fee for the class, but dia-
betes education is a covered service by
most insurance plans. To register, call
Sue Barwick at 426-1611, ext. 28941, or
from Allyn, 275-8614, ext. 28941.
Seminar focuses
on preventing
A free seminar on stroke prevention
is presented from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sept.
17 in the Pershing meeting room at Ma-
son General Hospital & Family of Clin-
ics, 901 Mountain View Drive, Shelton.
The featured speaker is Fawn Ross,
a stroke/telestroke coordinator at Prov-
idence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia.
To register, call Sabrina Nelson at 432-
7725 or email snelson@masongeneral.
corn.
Hospital offers Support meeting
two-day diabetes discusses medication
Navigating the diabetes medication
management class maze is the topic of a meeting hosted
by the Mason General Hospital & Fam-
A two-day course on diabetes manage- ily of Clinic's Shelton Diabetes Support
ment is offered by Mason General Hospital Group from 1 to 2 p.m. Sept. 18 in the
& Family of Clinics from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pershing and Ellinor meeting rooms at
Sept. 16 and 17 in the Pershing and Elli- Mason General Hospital, 901 Mountain
nor meeting rooms at Mason General Hos- View Drive, Shelton.
pital, 901 Mountain View Drive, Shelton. The guest speaker is Keith Fongemie,
The class, conducted by Mason the pharmacy clinical coordinator for
General Hospital employees, includes Mason General. He encourages family
information about medications, proper members and loved ones to attend so they
meal planning, exercise, prevention have the knowledge to help support in
and treatment of complications, stress helping their loved one manage diabetes.
management, living well, and engaging For more information, call Sue Bar-
support people and a health care team. wick out 427-7332, or from Allyn, 275-
Relatives and friends are also invited at 8614 and ask for the Diabetes Wellness
attend the class. Center.
! !-3 LUNCH SPECIAL
Vietnamese Pho:
Chicken & Beef $9.95, Shrimp $10.95, Seafood Mix: $11.95
Miso Soup with every meal
Free Women's
Health event at
Mason General
October is Breast Cancer Awareness
Month, and Mason General Hospital &
Family of Clinics invites women to the
free Women's Health Event from 8 a.m.
to noon Oct 6. 18 at the main -- south
-- entrance to the hospital at 901 Moun-
tain View Drive, Shelton.
Mason General employees offer
healthful guidelines on good nutrition,
heart health, diabetes awareness and
more, and information on the HPV
vaccine that prevents most cases of
cervical cancer. The event also in-
cludes free blood pressure screening
and diabetes testing, healthful re-
freshments and mini massages offered
from volunteers from Kaleidoscope
Massage in Shelton.
The first 50 women between the
ages of 40 and 65 who are uninsured
or underinsured for mammograms
will receive a free digital mammogram
screening. The free screenings are
funded by the Karen Hilburn Breast
and Cervical Cancer Fund; the Wash-
ington Breast, Cervical and Colon
Health Program; and Susan G. Komen
for the Cure of Puget Sound.
For more information, call Karry at
432-7706; for information in Spanish,
call Rosa at 888-0229.
Donation to trust
women
battle cancer
The Karen Hilburn Breast & Cervi-
cal Cancer Fund, a chapter of Mason
General Hospital Foundation, for the
fourth consecutive year received a check
for $25,000 from the charitable trust of
Margery Jones, a former Shelton resi-
dent and cancer survivor.
Jones left her estate to be donated to
charitable nonprofit organizations. During
the past four years, the Hilburn Fund has
received a total of $95,000 from the estate.
"We are grateful for their continued
support of our fund," Hilburn, the fund's
founder, said in a news release. '~l~his do-
nation helps Mason County women who
are underinsured or uninsured with their
diagnoses and treatment of breast and
cervical cancer."
• Compiled by reporter Gordon Weeks
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