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- Fitness Challenge Helps Broomfield Lose Weight
Apr 4, 2008 8:01 am US/Mountain Digg | Facebook | E-mail Close WindowE-mail This PageFitness Challenge Helps Broomfield Lose Weight Fitness Challenge Helps Broomfield Lose Weight Written by Libby Smith, CBS4 Special Projects Producer Reporting Tom Mustin BROOMFIELD, Colo. (CBS4) ― The Get Fit, Stay Fit Challenge is coming to an end in Broomfield and the numbers are impressive. --More than 300 Broomfield residents participated in the challenge. --Together they lost a total of 775 pounds and dropped their total body fat by 185 percent. --Each person increased their walking by an average of 1.2 miles a day. The numbers for the whole group are impressive, but it gets even more impressive when you talk to individual participants. "I lost 11 pounds," said Kathrine Bucca, a pre-school teacher. "I lost 10 pounds, I dropped 2 percent body fat and I dropped 30 points from my cholesterol," said Amy Martinez, a pre-school teacher. Both women work at Bal Swan Children's Center in Broomfield. They were part of 35 parents and staff at the school that took part in the challenge. "It was wonderful to participate with my other colleagues here at school," director emeritus, Marlene Politzer told CBS4. Team members held group walks and encouraged each other to make healthy eating choices. "I think probably by putting more exercise in my day, it has made me feel more energetic," Politzer added. America on the Move encourages people to make small changes toward a healthier lifestyle, including cutting 100 calories out of your diet and incorporating moderate exercise everyday. Challenge participants tracked their steps on pedometers. "Even though I thought I was taking a lot of steps, I needed to bump it up more," Bucca added. Participants took advantage of weekly weigh-ins at Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center and the Broomfield Paul Derda Recreation Center, and enjoyed special events and prizes donated by various community businesses and organizations. "I think that we were all surprised that 8 weeks makes that much of a difference in your body," Martinez said. America on the Move hopes the real difference is made in day to day living. Organizers hope that over the 8 weeks, participants developed a routine that they can carry on for weeks to come. (© MMVIII CBS Television Stations, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.) - Adams, Boulder Seeing Share of Health Care Job Growth
Friday, March 28, 2008 Adams, Boulder seeing share of health care job growth Denver Business Journal - by Bob Mook Denver Business Journal Kathleen Lavine | Business Journal The Platte Valley Medical Center in Brighton, which opened last year, employs about 700 people. View Larger Four Colorado counties rank among the top 30 in the country in terms of job growth in the health care sector, according to Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. (EMSI), an economic data and consulting firm based in Moscow, Idaho. A recent industry report from EMSI shows that Larimer, Boulder, Pueblo and Adams counties were listed in the top 30. All four counties expect growth in the health care sector to grow between 41 percent and 48 percent from 2006 to 2016. Adams County's projected growth is largely due to the advent of the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora -- a project that's estimated to cost $1.5 billion, with 3.4 million square feet of education, patient care and research space. Campus tenants include the University of Colorado Hospital. Site neighbors include The Children's Hospital's new location and University Physicians Inc. According to EMSI, health care and social assistance jobs in Adams County will grow to a total of 19,601 in 2016 from 13,925, an increase of 41 percent. A spokesman for EMSI said the company counts doctors, nurses and services for the elderly in its calculations, but not researchers. Jay Gershen, vice chancellor for external affairs for the University of Colorado Denver, including the downtown campus and the Anschutz Medical Campus, said when the campus' research park is completed, there will be 32,000 people on the site, including about 2,900 students. By contrast, the state's fledgling renewable energy sector employs about 66,000 people, Gershen said. The new Veterans Hospital, scheduled for completion in 2012, will bring an additional 3,000 jobs to the site, Gershen said. Also in Adams County, the Platte Valley Medical Center in Brighton employs about 700 people and expects to grow more because of the "surprising popularity" of the new facility, said Jim Hertel, the hospital's chairman of the board. Open since last year, the 300,000-square-foot, $138 million center is adjacent to a 2,000-acre, mixed-use Prairie Center project located along the west side of I-76 between Bromley Lane and 128th Avenue. Bill Becker, president of the Adams County Economic Development Corp., said he considered growth in the health care sector "a very important component of our communities." Becker cites an expansion of Saint Anthony's North Hospital in Westminster and outreach clinics as other drivers in Adams County's health care boom. But while Adams County ranked highly in the report, Larimer County, which encompasses Loveland and Fort Collins in Northern Colorado, expects the most health care job growth in the state, the report said. The county ranked No. 11 in the nation in terms of health care job growth. It expects to add 7,823 health care jobs by 2012, for a total of 24,339 -- a 48 percent increase from 2006. Maury Dobbie, president and CEO of the Northern Colorado Economic Development Corp., said EMSI's findings are consistent with a study from a regional economist that showed the health care industry buoyed the region when the technology sector hit a downturn in 2003. Recently, Medical Center of the Rockies and McKee Medical Center -- both in Loveland -- brought thousands of new jobs to the area because of expansions and new facilities. Dobbie added because Northern Colorado has been identified as a good retirement destination, the health care sector is expected to grow stronger. Boulder and Pueblo counties also were featured prominently in the report. Becker speculated that Boulder's growth may be spurred by the relatively recent opening of Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette. All contents of this site © American City Business Journals Inc. All rights reserved. - 7Everyday Hero/Mary Lazinsky
You know hospitals rely on volunteers. In fact, most medical centers in town have as many as 300. But there’s one volunteer in Lafayette that the whole staff looks up to, and that person is this week’s 7 everyday hero. Mitch Jelniker has more. Is this a gift? Enthusiasm has a name at Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center. It’s Mary Lazinsky. Mary volunteers at the hospital’s Prairie Winds gift shop. Anybody who walks in the door, it’s a smile, may I help you. And if you can keep up with her, you’ll find her helping everyone else in the hospital too. I have some coloring books to give to the children who have to wait with the patients. It fills me up, but I know it makes a difference. Mary’s efforts have earned her recognition from the White House. The badge on the left is the President’s Volunteer Service Award. The one on the right is the President’s Call to Service Award for more than 5,000 volunteer hours. It’s such a part of my life, mitch, that I could not see not doing it. She pays attention to the smallest detail. But it’s important to a patient or a family member that’s coming here that’s in pain or they have anxiety or stress. But I love when people come in and they need a little sympathy. A little bit of care. 00:32:43 See the video: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/video/11288427/index.html - Patients Must Have Patience to See Doctors in Tanzania
Patients must have patience to see doctors in Tanzania posted by: Colleen Locke , Producer written by: Bazi Kanani , Anchor/Reporter created: 12/10/2007 12:00:33 AM Last updated: 12/12/2007 5:52:35 PM Patients must have patience to see doctors in Tanzania. 9NEWS at 4 p.m. 12/12/07 KUSA - They all wear the white coats, but one of the doctors in the group is not accustomed to the surroundings. Dr. Elibariki Nnko is a visitor from Tanzania and is amazed at much of what he sees. "Here it's like luxurious because everything is available," he said. In September, Dr. Nnko visited several Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Colorado. On this day at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette, he's training on equipment being donated to his hospital in Tanzania. He works at Selian Lutheran Hospital near the city of Arusha. It's one of the best hospitals in the entire country, but still nothing like an American hospital. "We are chronically short of the materials, the drugs, the supplies that we need to give the level of care that we are capable of doing," said Selian Executive Director Dr. Mark Jacobson. Jacobson is an American doctor who has been living in Tanzania for more than 25 years, even raising his three daughters there. Because of his work at Selian, the hospital has grown ea