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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Women play a major role in all aspects
of the local health care industry
From administration to public relations, to practioners, women
are visible everywhere in the Peninsula’s health care business
By Rodika Tollefson |
| Linda Brown, CEO of The Doctors Clinic, was recruited by the practice about seven years ago. Since she took the helm, the organization grew from 50 health care providers to about 75, new services including physical therapy, digital imaging and ambulatory surgery have been added, and several buildings were remodeled or constructed... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Naturopathic medicine:
Treating people, not just symptoms
By Maura Hallam Sweley |
| Increasing interest in all things organic and natural and dissatisfaction with the state of medical care in this country have some people seeking alternatives to standard “western” medicine... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
HSA Plans offer solution not tourniquet
to health insurance crisis
By Lisa Willis Holmer, Communications Specialist, KPS Health Plans |
| It’s a growing trend, American employers providing less health care and retirement benefits for their employees. While many look to government for a solution to fill the widening discrepancy, health insurance providers have taken another tack offering Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) as a viable solution... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Bella Gente opens in Silverdale |
| Bella Gente, who recently opened at 3636 Byron St in Silverdale specializes in colonic hydrotherapy but also offers a wide variety of treatments to help restore and maintain a healthy lifestyle such as... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Peninsula Community Health Services
moves South Kitsap clinic |
| Peninsula Community Health Services (PCHS) recently relocated its medical clinic to 320 S. Kitsap Boulevard near Harrison Medical Center’s South Kitsap campus... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Advanced Medical Imaging brings
SimPlant technology to Kitsap |
| Kitsap County periodondists and oral surgeons have a new tool at their disposal, thanks to Advanced Medical Imaging (AMI): SimPlant software, the world’s first interactive, three-dimensional dental implant planning system... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Franciscan opens sleep disorder
treatment program in G.H. |
| Franciscan Health System has opened a sleep disorders center in Gig Harbor in October. The St. Anthony Sleep Disorders Center is located in the 4700 Pt. Fosdick Medical Building. This is the only treatment program of its kind in Gig Harbor, and will serve residents of that city as well as the Key Peninsula, according to FHS officials... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Group Health seeks new members
for Board of Trustees |
| Group Health Cooperative, one of Washington’s largest employers, is seeking candidates for five board of trustees positions. Elections are slated for October, and the application deadline is April 21... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Dietary changes could help treat depression |
| Depression is a disease that affects the thoughts, feelings and the ability to cope with everyday life for millions of people each year. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, women are nearly twice as likely as men to suffer from a depressive illness in a given year... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Why medical imaging as a career choice?
By Raelene Wolfe |
| My choice of going into the medical imaging field was prompted by my interest early on as a child. When my father was ill, I tagged along for the many medical appointments to the radiology department. There I sensed the importance of the technologist – her sense of caring for the patient and family as well as being well educated... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Resetting your body clock
after daylight-savings switch
By Rodika Tollefson |
| In 1874, then-minister to France Benjamin Franklin had a brilliant idea: Why not reset the clocks during the time of the year while most people are snoozing so that during their waking hours they get an extra hour of daylight. It would be another century before the idea is first adopted in the United States with goal of saving energy, and not until 1986 when an attempt to make the Daylight Saving Time uniform across the country would institute the change on the first weekend of every April... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Shed your stress at a local spa
By Rodika Tollefson |
| Vacation is on many working people’s minds as the summer sun calls them by name. For those who don’t have the luxury of a summer vacation — or who feel they need a vacation from their vacation — there is a quick an unbeatable way to melt away the stress... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
Preventive care promotes healthy aging |
| You may dislike going to the doctor. There’s often a lengthy wait and a number of forms to complete, so you avoid going at all costs. Surely that’s okay, right... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
New identity to go with new technology at AMI |
| Several new advances have been implemented at Advanced Medical Imaging (AMI) the past few months. A state-of-the-art Computed Tomography (CT) scanner, coronary calcium scoring, cardiac CT scans, CT dental implant imaging, PACS system (picture archiving and communication system) and more have created a lot of activity at this growing business... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HEALTHCARE QUARTERLY
New healthy living business in Silverdale |
| Tami Close recently opened a new business at 3636 Byron St. in Old Town Silverdale. She specializes in rapid eye technology, emotional freedom techniques, healthy living, and Isagenix... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HUMAN RESOURCES
AWB launches employers
Workers’ Comp program |
| The Association of Washington Business (AWB) will institute a new certification program to train people responsible for workers’ compensation and safety on the most important aspects of prevention and cost control. The three-part series takes place several times throughout the year, with two days of in-class instruction and two online courses... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HUMAN RESOURCES
One in twenty job applicants
has a criminal conviction |
| An annual study by ADP of its background checking activity shows that of the over 3.7 million checks conducted, five percent of applicants had a criminal conviction... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HUMAN RESOURCES
What is the 75-mile FMLA requirement? |
| A recent court ruling could impact employers that are close to meeting the Family and Medical Leave Act’s (FMLA) size and distance thresholds. Employees are covered under FMLA if, among other criteria, they work within 75 miles of 50 or more eligible employees on their organization... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HUMAN RESOURCES
Keeping older workers is not
nearly as costly as high turnover |
| The benefits and compensation costs of retaining workers age 50 and older are modest compared with the potential turnover expenses, an AARP/Towers Perrin analysis finds... (Full Article) |
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SPECIAL REPORT - HUMAN RESOURCES
HR questions and answers
By Julie Tappero, West Sound Workforce |
| Q) We just realized that we have been paying a new employee $12.00 per hour instead of $11.00 as we agreed. Can we deduct the overpayment from their next paycheck... (Full Article) |
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