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Exercise Partners Share Healthy Goals
by Cathy Rasmussen, RN, Community Health Director
In honor of Mother's Day, we'd like to profile two mother-daughter exercise partners who support each other in a healthy lifestyle habit. Keep up the great work!
Lorraine and
Ann: Exercising
for Energy
and Health
Nora and
Miranda:
Getting Moore
Strong!
Lorraine Hesketh
and daughter Ann Arnett,
Nora Moore and
daughter Miranda
Strong, Eugene Exer
Salem Exercise Program
participants
cise Program participants
How often do you
exercise?
We both exercise
together at least three
times per week. Then we
each try to exercise at
least one day more, and Ann sometimes
two days more each week. We’ve
exercised together for five months.
What's your secret to sticking
with your program?
We go right from work to exercise.
We bring clothes to either change at the
exercise facility or change at work.
What are the biggest benefits of
regular exercise for you?
We both feel so much more
energized! Lorraine says, “Now I often
feel like playing with the dog or kids
when I get home after working out and
my husband noticed my improved mood.”
What’s your exercise goal?
Our goal is really to be healthy -
not losing weight necessarily. We both
have lost weight and inches, but feel it’s
not the most important thing to us.
What’s your favorite kind of
exercise?
Lorraine says, “What I like best
How often do you
exercise?
about the Curves for Women program
is that it’s fast and not boring, and it
keeps you moving. I don’t really like
to lift weights. This you can do at your
own pace.” Ann adds, “We feel really
comfortable exercising here because the
people there are all different sizes and
are not major exercisers.” Our favorite
machine is the leg adductor.
Exercising partners:
Ann says, “Working out together
helps us because if I have to go to make
sure she goes, then I’ll go, and 1 know
that if I don’t go, she won’t go, so 1 go!
Lorraine adds, “We both really enjoy
spending time together to visit and to
make plans.”
Additional Comments:
Lorraine says, “Thanks for the
opportunity to be part of the diabetes
exercise program.” Ann concludes,
“Exercising regularly is better than I
thought it would be!”
Mother, Daughter, Sister, Wife -
Make Mammograms a Habit for Life
Simply being a woman and getting
older puts you at some risk of breast
cancer. Mammograms are still the best
method currently available to detect
breast cancer early. They can detect can
cers that cannot be found in other ways.
Early detection means more
treatment options and better outcomes.
Women should have their first
mammogram between ages 35 and 40
or earlier if there’s a history of breast
cancer in the family. Mammograms for
women over age 40 should be done
every year or by recommendation of
your health care provider.
You are so important to your family
and your community. Please remember
to take time to care for your health!
This message brought to you by the
Breast and Cervical Cancer Program.
We’ve been exer
cising together since
November 2002. Nora
exercises 1° hours
three times per week, and Miranda
exercises 1 ° hours four times per week.
through sticking with our regular
exercise schedule.
What’s your secret to sticking
with your program?
What’s your favorite kind of
exercise?
We exercise first thing in the
morning before work, so we don’t have
time to talk ourselves out of exercising
by the end of the day. We also
reschedule ahead of time if one of us,
for some reason, is unable to make it
during our regular workout days.
What are the biggest benefits of
regular exercise for you?
We both feel our biggest benefits
are feeling stronger and building more
lean muscle tone.
What’s your exercise goal?
We both have a goal to increase
lean muscle tone and strength
Nora enjoys the weight machines
for the arms, chest, and legs. Miranda
says, “I don’t have one particular
favorite. 1 like our regular routine
of Stairmaster, EFX, and then hitting
the weights.”
Exercising partners:
We both feel encouraged to
exercise together through the support
we give to each other to be healthier
and fit. It also helps that we both
happen to have mutual exercise goals,
which offers encouragement through
shared progress.
Health Department Complies with
New Patient Privacy Rules
by Erin Kirk, Administrative/Quality Improvement Coordinator
New federal regulations mandating
the protection of health information and
patient privacy by all health care organ
izations went into effect April 14,2003.
The Siletz Tribal Health Department is
mandated to comply with these new
privacy regulations by the Health
Insurance Portability and Account
ability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 that gives
patients more control over how their
health information is used.
The Health Department is dedicat
ed to protecting your health information
and has made great strides to comply
with the new regulations. Medical
Support Supervisor Beverly Baumgardt
is our designated privacy officer.
If you’re a patient of the clinic or
recipient of Contract Health Services,
you’ll receive written notice of the
Health Department’s privacy practices.
It’ll help you understand your rights
and our responsibilities. Expect to
receive this notice at your next clinic
visit or by mail.
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