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Nicole Donegan

Nicole Donegan has written 15 posts for Memorial News

Seniors: Falls Prevention

Keeping seniors on their feet
Key component of fitness for seniors is preventing falls
by Leah Ward
Yakima Herald-Republic
YAKIMA, Wash. — Yakima now has a small army of fitness instructors who have as their mission nothing less than preventing falls among the elderly, a leading cause of injury-related hospitalizations across the state.

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Celia Young, in pink, [...]

Premature Birth Rate in Yakima

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Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Wins Consumer Choice Award

YAKIMA – This week, the National Research Corporation (NRC) announced Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital as a winner of their 2009/2010 Consumer Choice Award. The award identifies hospitals which healthcare consumers have chosen as having the highest quality and image in over 300 markets throughout the U.S. The winners will be featured in this week’s [...]

Healing through grief

Teaching families to deal with loss
November is national Hospice month. Yakima Valley’s four cooperating hospice agencies; Memorial Hospice, Yakima Regional Home Health & Hospice, Kittitas Valley Home Health & Hospice and Lower Valley Hospice and Palliative Care; again welcome professional speaker and grief counselor Doug Smith for a free public seminar to teach individuals [...]

Swine Flu It’s A Serious Disease So Don’t Take It Lightly

This editorial appears in the Oct. 25, 2009, Yakima Herald-Republic.
It’s time to end the careless chatter doubting the seriousness of swine flu and the vaccine developed to prevent it. The illness has reached unprecedented virulence for so early in the fall.
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High Schoolers raising funds for Children’s Village

Helping children with special health care needs, Yakima Children’s Village is currently expanding its building to accommodate more services to help children in the area. This video features Family, Career and Community Leaders of America and their fund raising efforts.

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Cottage in the Meadow

Learn more about Cottage in the Meadow.
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Information about H1N1 Vaccination at Memorial

Leran more about how many are affected by flu annually and Memorial’s efforts to ensure the safety of staff and patients with their staff vaccination program.

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New Pediatric Hospitalist Service

New Pediatric Hospitalist Service
Effective  September 1, Community Health Of Central Washington (CHCW) and Memorial Hospital are collaborating to offer a new service in Yakima– a Pediatric Hospitalist Service (PH Svc).  This is important information  about how services will be delivered to newborn and pediatric patients admitted to Memorial Hospital.  We are excited to bring this innovation to patients and [...]

Watch Them Soar

View Children’s Village Construction Progress, Aug-Sep 2009.
Children sitting in the dental chairs at Children’s Village watch in awe out the windows as dump
trucks come and go and workers busily prepare the building for expansion.  Foundations are laid,
beams have been lifted into place and framing has begun; the smell of progress hangs sweetly
in the air.
Construction [...]