Acknowledge your feelings.If someone close to you has recently died or you can’t be with loved ones for other reasons, realize that it’s normal to feel sadness and grief. It’s OK to take time to cry or express your feelings. You can’t force...
As we struggle with toxic politics and partisan bickering, it may seem like our government is on the verge of dysfunction – if we’re not already there. But life goes on, and that includes health care. You may remember the alarm about the “funding cliff” last year,...
When Piedmont Health SeniorCare was launched on Dec. 1, 2008, it was a new concept that was not very well known even among health-care providers. Allowing the elderly to receive a variety of health and social services at home and in SeniorCare’s Burlington facility...
Thanksgiving is here, and hopefully you have a lot to be thankful for but however you have fared in 2018, it will be over before you know it. It’s not too early to be thinking about and planning for that occurrence. And this being Piedmont Health’s last newsletter of...
Candis Harrison needed help. “I was obese, my blood pressure was off the charts, my sugar was off the charts, I was diabetic…I was in bad shape, health wise,” the 38-year-old assembly plant worker recalls. That was back in 2016. Today, it’s a different story. “Now, I...
