Excercise Induced Asthma
January 20, 2012
Brian Weihs and Bruce Smith from Memorial’s pulmonary function lab discuss exercise-induced asthma.
Yakima Cooking
January 16, 2012
Valley Fresh Fare is a unique thirty minute program featuring Valley chefs, their favorite recipes, local ingredients, and encouragement for home cooks to experiment with new flavors while meeting personal nutritional needs.
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A unique thirty minute program presented by KYVE Tv in partnership with Memorial Hospital featuring Valley chefs, their favorite recipes, fresh local ingredients, and encouragement for home cooks to experiment with new flavors while meeting personal nutritional needs.
Join veteran restaurateur, Gayla Games as she hosts local chefs and nutritional experts who will demonstrate a few of their favorite recipes while incorporating local products and a plethora of ingredient variations. The dishes will be paired with local beverages including wine, ale and non-alcoholic beverage selections made right here in the Valley. Viewers will learn new ways to cook their favorite restaurant meals at home including some ingredient substitutions for those wishing to personalize the meal, change up flavors and/or meet personal health and nutritional needs. These tips will encourage the home chef to venture beyond the traditional recipe and to create unique home dining experiences. The show will feature some well known restaurants and some little known culinary treasures yet to be discovered.
The purpose of this program is to provide opportunities for viewers to:
• Discover new dining experiences
• Experience new flavors
• Indulge in the pleasures of a meal prepared by local chefs
• Try their hand at preparing favorite restaurant meals at home
• Learn how to utilize various ingredients to personalize their favorite recipes
Initially, there will be six programs recorded at the Yakima Valley Museum. The museum offers a unique visual environment as well as a professional kitchen for food storage and pre-preparation. Each program will feature one local restaurant/chef.
The program will air a minimum of two times per month:
First Monday of each month – 7:00-7:30 PM
Additional run 5-7 days later normally at 7:00-7:30 PM
Join Gayla Games and John Gasperetti as they shop the Farmer’s Market for local ingredients and prepare a family favorite….
Click here to download Gasperetti’s Chicken Cacciatore. Aired January 10 & 17, 2011
CT Scans For Children
January 10, 2012
William Feldmann, MD, board-certified Radiologist with Yakima Valley Radiology, discusses new protocols at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital aimed at lowering the radiation dosages in Computed Tomography (CT) Scans performed on children. The new protocols are part of the nationally recognized “Image Gently” campaign developed by the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging.
Winter Sports Injuries
December 23, 2011
Erik Miller, MD, discusses preparing for winter activities to avoid injuries . KIT 1280 am, 12/12/11.
The Yakima Promise Awards
November 4, 2011
KNDO coverage of Yakima’s Promise Awards
Yakima Gourmet Gift Shops
October 27, 2011
A visit to The Gift Shop at Memorial. A place for fashion, food and fun!
National Hospice Month. National Hospice Month Events
October 18, 2011
Hospice Chaplain Laurie Oswalt and Pastor David Helseth discuss upcoming Hospice Month events starting on October 25, 2011. Learn more…
March of Dimes
October 17, 2011
Contact: Nicole Donegan
Communications and Marketing
(509) 654-4320
NicoleDonegan@yvmh.org
March of Dimes grant increases outreach to expectant moms
Six months after the March of Dimes awarded Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital a Chapter Community grant of $20,000, the funds are paying off. Over 500 expectant parents have attended Memorial’s Childbirth Education classes. In addition, Memorial has offered 35 prenatal Yoga classes aimed at improving maternal health and fitness during pregnancy. Memorial has also begun offering a program to help improve communication between parents and their pregnant teens. The classes are offered quarterly and include testimony from parents and teens, as well as advice from a certified mental health professional. The grant has also allowed Memorial to implement Comenzando Bien, a Spanish language childbirth education curriculum, which is more sensitive to the cultural needs of Latino moms.
“While Memorial has always offered a wide range of prenatal education and programs, the grant from March of Dimes has helped us increase our programs to reach even more high risk mothers,” says Bertha Lopez, Community Outreach Manager for Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital.
The Washington State Department of Health Woman, Infant and Children annual report for 2010, shows that 72% of Yakima County families receiving their services are living in poverty (monthly income for a family of four living in poverty was $1,838 or less). Yakima County also ranks among the highest in the State for teen birth rates, which are associated with poor prenatal care leading to pre-term delivery, low birth weight, and an increased risk of childhood developmental delay, illness and mortality.
In addition to offering more classes and programs, the March of Dimes grant has also offered Memorial an opportunity to increase prenatal health education through a variety of media outlets—particularly in Spanish-language television and radio programming—bringing the message for prenatal health to over 7,000 homes.
Memorial has also made great strides in reducing elective deliveries before the 39th week of gestation. The March of Dimes granted Memorial an additional $5,000 towards reducing elective deliveries (cesarean or vaginal) births before the 39th week without medical cause, because it has been linked to increased complications with the baby’s health. Washington State has set a goal for hospitals to perform fewer than 7% of cesarean sections before the 39th week. Memorial’s rate for these deliveries was 2.7% for the 1st quarter of 2011 and 1.4% for the 2nd quarter of 2011. The success is attributed to more thorough screenings of patients for a medical need to deliver before the 39th week as well as stricter oversight of the deliveries scheduled at Memorial.
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The March of Dimes is a non-profit organization that helps mothers have full-term, healthy pregnancies and researches the problems that threaten the health of babies.
Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital has been providing healthcare to the Yakima Valley for over 60 years and continues to provide state-of-the-art, quality-of-life health care services for our community. Memorial welcomes over 3,500 new births within the Yakima Valley each year.
The Memorial Foundation Honored
October 17, 2011
From the Yakima Herald Republic
10/15/11 Letters to the Editor
Great fundraising work
To the editor — Many people of Yakima know there is the Memorial Foundation, a part of the nonprofit Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital family. Many fewer are aware of the incredible small staff of the Foundation.
Headed by Anne Caffery, this staff has led the fundraising of over $11 million in the past three years for the Children’s Village expansion and the hospice house Cottage in the Meadow. In addition, it has raised $1 million each year for the many programs it supports — money all being spent in the community.
On Oct. 4 The Foundation was honored to speak at the annual Blackbaud conference in Washington, D.C.. Anne and three of her teammates presented their program “10 rules to break in a fundraising campaigns.” Blackbaud is the leader in consulting and advising nonprofits in the nation, therefore this recognition is significant.
The Foundation, while small, has coordinated the Children’s Miracle Network efforts in the county, coordinates and funds various school health programs, Children’s Village programs, many of these operating under the radar.
I want to publicly congratulate Anne and her great team for such phenomenal work.
WILLIAM A. WHEELER
Chairman Board of Trustees, Memorial Foundation
Yakima
Yakima Breast Cancer Awareness
October 11, 2011
Nancy Roehr, Manager ’Ohana Memorial’s mammography Center and Julie Toney, North Star Lodge, discuss Breast Cancer Awareness and related events.