Yakima Cooking

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

Critical Thinking In A Didactic World

By Teresa Pritchard,Vice President, Employee Services, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital

Wouldn’t it be great if all we needed  to do in healthcare was follow pro-tocol, process, and procedures?  I’d love a world that was only black and  white—in the form of checklists and  algorithms.  But that certainly isn’t the reality–particularly in an indus-try where changes are happening at an increasingly rapid pace.

Read the full article at http://www.wahcnews.com/newsletters/wa-tpritchard-0112.pdf

From:    Washington Healthcare News.

 

Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital is a 226 bed acute care facility providing a range of hospital services.

Local Emergency Doctor Completes IronMan Comptetition

Local Emergency Doctor completes his first Ironman competition

Marty Brueggemann, MD, of Emergency Associates of Yakima (EAY) completed his first Iron Man triathlon last month at Panama City Beach, Florida, finishing 1016th out of 2800.  The race consisted of a 26.2 mile run, 112 mile bike ride, and 2.4 mile swim.  No stranger to competition, Dr. Brueggemann has competed in 10 full marathons, six half marathons, two half-ironman triathlons, three Olympic triathlons, and numerous other races before tackling the full Ironman challenge.

Dr. Brueggemann kept a running blog as he trained and competed in the Ironman contest.  On his blog, he credits hard work and the support of his family for his success.  Dr. Brueggemann says where he placed in the competition was not as important as the accomplishing his goal.

“This was never about winning or qualifying, it was always about proving to myself that I am capable of anything that I set my mind towards accomplishing,” say Dr. Brueggemann.

Dr. Brueggmann is a board-certified Emergency Physician with Emergency Associated of Yakima and is on the Medical staff at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital.

A Day Without Community Healthcare Centers in Yakima

Anita Monoian, CEO of Yakima Neighborhood Health Services, discusses their event, A Day Without Community Healthcare Centers in Yakima. Over 100 people are expected to come to the local hospitals over the lunch hour on Tuesday, November 29, to represent the 100 patients each hour—or 2400 per day— served by our local healthcare clinics-Yakima Neighborhood Healthcare Services, Community Health of Central Washington, and Yakima Farmworkers Clinics

Gastroenterology Job

Gastroenterology Job

About our Gastroenterology Job

Gastroenterology Job: WHO WE ARE:

The successful applicant for our gastroenterology job will join seven Gastroenterologists and three mid-level providers treating patients in sunny Yakima Washington. Yakima Gastroenterology is a 21,000 sq. ft. gastroenterology clinic with attached free standing endoscopy center which is capable of doing 45 endoscopies per day. As a full service gastroenterology practice, we provide services in colonoscopy and upper endoscopy, esophageal manometry, capsule endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound and ERCP. Yakima Gastroenterology Associates is an integral part of Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital’s Family of Services.

11/11/11 Lucky Baby

The first “lucky” 11/11/11 baby was born at Yakima Memorial Hospital at 4:00 this morning. An eight pound two ounce baby girl was born to Sirisha Bodempudi and her husband Srini.

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Together We Can Win The Fight Against Cancer

Juntos Podemos Contra el Cancer – Together We Can Win The Fight Against Cancer

Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital is partnering up with Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF) to provide breast cancer awareness and prevention education throughout the Yakima Valley. The HAF program, “Juntos Podemos Contra el Cancer” is an innovative, scalable, and cost-effective model for changing Latino attitude and behaviors about breast cancer prevention and screenings.

For the next eight-weeks, Memorial’s Education and Outreach Department will be offering breast cancer educational programs throughout the community, with the goal to reach approximately 600 Latina women. Participant will receive education on overall breast health, signs and symptoms of breast cancer, will be connected to medical homes and mammography services. This partnership will help Memorial expand its educational outreach and improve the overall health of the community.

The Juntos Podemos Contra el Cancer program was funded through a grant awarded to HAF from the CDC. Yakima was selected by HAF as one of two pilot locations.

To learn more about HAF please visit www.hispanicaccess.org.

The Memorial Foundation hosts the first annual “Promise Awards”

The Memorial Foundation is rolling out the red carpet with an Oscar’s-style event, known as the first annual “Promise Awards, to honor of those who have helped children in Central Washington find special health care services through the collaborative development of Children’s Village. The event will be held on Thursday, November 3, at 5:30 p.m., at the 4th Street Theater. The public is invited to attend the event and help thank those committed to the vision and promise of Children’s Village.
WHO: The general public and those with a special interest in Children’s Village
WHAT: The First Annual Promise Awards
WHERE: The 4th Street Theater, 14 South Fourth Street in Yakima
WHEN: Thursday, November 3, at 5:30—7:00 p.m.
COST: $100 per person

Nominees were selected from peers, parents, friends and staff of Children’s Village. Winners will be honored in seven categories:
• Champion of Clinical Care
• Visionary Volunteer
• Corporate Community Energizer
• Distinguished Philanthropist
• Visionary in Children’s Health
• Outstanding Youth Engagement
• Inspiring Family
The event kicks off with cocktails and hor d’oeuvres, followed by the award ceremony, hosted by Master of Ceremonies, Spencer Hatton. Contact The Memorial Foundation at (509) 576-5794, to receive an invitation or purchase tickets. All proceed benefit Children’s Village.

Yakima ER Education

As state moves to limit Medicaid funding for ER visits, group wants to educate patients on health care options
By Leah Beth Ward
Yakima Herald-Republic

YAKIMA, Wash. — A group of Yakima Valley medical providers wants to help low-income patients avoid new financial burdens when they turn too often to the emergency room complaining of runny noses and other non-emergencies. More>>

National Philanthropy Day

National Philanthropy Month: Events in Yakima

National Philanthropy Day: The Big Give Day

The BIG GIVE Day is a community appeal to make November 15th a singular day of giving in support of vital healthcare programs for children, hospice patients, cancer care, mammography services – and more…right here in our community. The BIG GIVE Day event will raise funds through The Memorial Foundation and will be supported by Townsquare Media and their radio stations KIT 1280 AM, KATS 94.5 FM, KFFM 107.3 FM, KDBL 92.9 FM “The Bull” and KUTI 1460 AM.

Incorporating online giving, call-in donations, and social media networking…..the goal for this event is to reach a wide audience so that ONE day of giving will support many of the healthcare programs that make a difference to our community EVERY day. Stay tuned!

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