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Heartfelt Care Surgery Enables Montclair Woman to Return to Her Garden with Gusto JANUARY | FEBRUARY 2018 HACKENSACKMERIDIANHEALTH.ORG HEALTHVIEWS Heartfelt Care Surgery enables Montclair woman to return to her garden with gusto. PLUS 4 Tips to Enjoy the Holiday Season Humanizing Health Care What Does Your Blood Pressure Reading Really Mean? INNOVATION SPOTLIGHT Hackensack Meridian Health’s multifaceted cardiovascular program fights back against heart disease. See page 16 WELCOME READERS! HERE’S A MAGAZINE FOR YOUR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. Message to the Community HEALTHVIEWS Gordon N. Litwin, Esq. CO-CHAIRMAN Joseph Simunovich CO-CHAIRMAN Robert C. Garrett, FACHE CO-CEO John K. Lloyd, FACHE CO-CEO Steven G. Littleson, FACHE PRESIDENT, HOSPITAL SERVICES DIVISION AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Sharad Sahu, M.D. MEDICAL ADVISOR Michael McCauley, Gabriella Heizler, Jacki Kronstedt HEALTHVIEWS PRODUCTION TEAM L to R: Robert Garrett and John Lloyd This free magazine is prepared by the Marketing and Communications Team of Hackensack Meridian Health. Please call 848-888-4700 with any questions Welcome to Hackensack Meridian or comments. Inquiries or ideas can be addressed to HealthViews@ HealthViews magazine! HackensackMeridian.org. At Hackensack Meridian Health, we take Through HealthViews, we hope to © 2017 Hackensack Meridian Health pride in the innovative, patient-centered inform and inspire you so that you can The material provided in this health care we provide. Our depth and lead a healthy, happy life. In each issue, magazine is intended to be used as breadth of care translates into 13 you’ll find: general information only and should not replace the advice of your hospitals, including two academic • Inspiring stories from neighbors in physician. Always consult your medical centers, two children’s hospitals your community who turned to the physician for individual care. and nine community hospitals. remarkable doctors, nurses and In fact, four of our hospitals are rated caregivers of Hackensack Meridian in the top 10 in the state by U.S. News & Health for answers when life brought World Report, including Hackensack them a health challenge University Medical Center, which is • Health and wellness articles and tips ranked the number 1 hospital in for your family New Jersey. • FREE community events, classes Share Our physical location spans New and programs Jersey from the top of the state down to a Patient Atlantic County, but our reach continues Enjoy this issue of HealthViews and the Story to surrounding states and around the ones to follow. We welcome yourA Whole New country for some of our highly feedback on what you’d like Stateto read of in Health Care specialized services. 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Snapshots Get the latest health news on a wide range of topics — everything from hip replacement to health screenings to nutrition ...................................................... 4 Success Stories Heartfelt Care ...................................................6 Returning Her Childhood ..........................8 A Tennis Titan ...............................................9 More Than a Decade of Trusted Care ...10 14 Paying It Forward ......................................... 12 Full Steam Ahead ........................................ 13 Back to Life ..................................................... 14 A Surprising Stroke .................................... 18 Sailing Through Surgery ..........................19 Nick of Time ................................................. 20 Learning New Tricks ................................ 30 A Whole New State of Health Care Events Calendar To learn more: Community health programs, fun events and support groups around the A Whole New Like. 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But things don’t have to be that way. These tips from Diego Coira, M.D., the moment — not something that FAPA, chairman of the Department of happened 10 years ago. Notice and Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine and accept any feelings that come up, but medical director of Integrative try to withhold judgment for now. Medicine at Hackensack University 3. Express your appreciation. Medical Center, can help you enjoy the This is also an ideal time to let others holidays with your family without know how much you appreciate the feeling drained. support they’ve shown you throughout 1. Have realistic expectations. Focus on the year. Research shows that having a meaningful holiday together expressing gratitude can lower your Start the Year rather than a Facebook-ready one. It’s own stress level. OK if the kids — or the grown-ups — Off Right 4. Share fun family activities. aren’t always on their best behavior. Your family could take a walk, go ice At our New Year, New Embrace the imperfections that give skating, play a board game, make You event, our experts your family its unique personality. decorations, visit a children’s museum will teach you how to 2. Be mindful of your feelings. or catch a family-friendly show. Make a set fitness and nutrition If you’ll be around people who push point of repeating some favorite goals for yourself, your buttons, approach the situation activities year after year. These kinds of plus offer free health with an attitude of mindfulness. Focus family traditions are the glue that helps screenings. See page your attention on what’s happening at bond family members together. 24 for event details. 4 Hackensack Meridian HealthViewsHealthviews || JANUARYJANUARY | |FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 2018 2018 Keep eating your fruits and veggies for Walk for healthy legs a better Researchers have already brain associated fruit and vegetable consumption with a lower risk Want to improve brain function? A increase blood flow, with running for heart disease and stroke, recent small study found that walking having the biggest effect. but a new study found eating might be as beneficial for your brain as “Although this is just a small study, it these foods may also decrease it is for the rest of your body. underscores that being active benefits the risk for peripheral artery The researchers studied blood flow in all parts of the body,” says Paul Woroch, disease (PAD). the brains of healthy young adults, both M.D., an Internal Medicine physician PAD causes a narrowing of while walking and at rest. They found affiliated with Mountainside Medical the arteries in certain parts of that the impact of the foot during Center. “If you’re not already active, talk the body, especially the legs. walking increased blood flow to the with your doctor about starting an The study looked at the brain. Running and cycling also exercise plan.” diets of more than 3.5 million Americans, with an average age of 64. The researchers found those who ate three or more servings of vegetables Extra protection against whooping cough or fruits every day had an 18 percent lower risk of Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, developing PAD than those can be especially dangerous for newborns who ate fewer
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