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HEALTHYpulse LIVING FOR THE SOUTH BAY DOWNHILL RACER: FROM THE O.R. TO THE SLOPES HOLIDAY FESTIVAL THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON WINTER 2015 PRESIDENT’S LETTER Inspired Wealth Management For Inspired Living MAGAZINE A Publication of the Torrance Memorial Health System 3330 Lomita Blvd., Torrance, CA 90505 DIRECTOR, PUBLIC RELATIONS SEIA MANAGES SEIA'S SOUTH BAY ADVISORY TEAM Ann O’Brien excels at customizing wealth management and investment strategies for families EDITOR and businesses. Jeanne Ricci CREATIVE DIRECTOR PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Angela Akers FINANCIAL PLANNING SENIOR DESIGNER $5.0 Elena Lacey RETIREMENT PLANNING * COPY EDITOR Billion Diane Garrett in client assets PHILANTHROPIC AND FAMILY FOUNDATION MANAGEMENT *SEIA and its affiliates as of 5/15/2015 CONTRIBUTORS Diane E. Barber Rebeccah Glaser Forbes LA Business Journal Financial Times Carole Jakucs DEAR READERS, Top 100 Wealth Manager Largest Money Top 300 Registered James F. Mills in the U.S. Management Firms Ranked By Investment Adviser List Nancy Sokoler Steiner The holiday season is often the time of year to express gratitude. At Torrance Memorial 2015 Assets Managed 2015 2014 Laura Roe Stevens Medical Center, many individuals deserve recognition for all they do to support our mission. I would particularly like to acknowledge our dedicated and caring group of volunteers this PHOTOGRAPHERS year. Not only do more than 1,000 blue-jacketed Auxiliary members volunteer their time Jeff Berting inside the medical center, but each year Las Amigas volunteers work thousands of hours to for inquiries or a Kremer Johnson Michael Neveux make our community celebration—Holiday Festival—come to life. consultation please call Lauren Pressey Now in its 32nd year, Holiday Festival is the medical center’s premiere community event and VINCE A. DiLEVA Eric C. Pritz MANAGING PARTNER fundraiser. Please turn to page 42 to read more about this year’s events. As an independent, (310) 712-2320 (310) 712-2349 Charles C. Koones non-profit medical center, this gift of time to us is truly a gift to our community. Please join [email protected] [email protected] me in thanking our wonderful Las Amigas and Auxiliary volunteers for giving their time and MANAGING PARTNER energy to us all. Todd Klawin VINCE A. DiLEVA Eric C. Pritz ® ® ® MS, CFP , AIF , Senior Partner CFP , CMFC, Partner BRAND PUBLISHER Hannah Lee Craig Leach President, Chief Executive Officer Torrance Memorial Medical Center Riviera Village | 1815 Via El Prado, Suite 100 Redondo Beach, CA 90277 | (888) 789-8393 | (310) 712-2320 58 11th Street Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 LOS ANGELES | Orange County | Redondo Beach | Pasadena | Virginia Tel 310-376-7800 Fax 310-376-0200 moontidemedia.com $1,000,000 minimum portfolio *Registered Representative/Securities offered through Signator Investors, Inc. Member FINRA, SPIC, 2121 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1600, Los Angeles, CA 90067, (310) 712-2323. SEIA, LLC and its investment advisory services are offered independent of Signator Investors, Inc. and any subsidiaries or affiliates CA INS. LICENSE VAD #OB84300, EP #0E55966. torrancememorial.org PULSE | 3 CONTENTS 42 24 32 30 HEALTH LINKS 8 HYBRID SUCCESS 14 EAT YOUR VEGGIES 18 COLD VS FLU ON THE COVER Cath lab vs OR Showing kids how 19 ASK THE DOC to eat right 9 LOOK UP! Your healthy pregnancy Don’t be the next text 15 GEE, THANKS 20 CARING HOUSE neck victim Praise for Torrance Memorial A loving last home 10 WHEN TO GO TO THE ER Medical Center 22 CALENDAR 11 GET COVERAGE 16 DOCTOR’S ORDERS The hows & whys of insurance Deciphering discharge papers 44 FLASH 50 END NOTE 12 THE REASON IS YOU 17 FITNESS WEARABLES Photographer Topher HEARTBEATS FEATURES Donahue captured Torrance Memorial‘s anesthesiologist Stanley Chang’s love for fresh 24 SHELLEY SMITH 26 HEALTHIEST 36 HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY! powder at CMH Galena in Staying in the game PERSON I KNOW Torrance Memorial: Exceptional British Columbia, Canada. Stanley Chang, MD— health care, then and now 30 STEVEN & WEEG heli-skiing convert THOMPSON 42 32ND ANNUAL Partners in health 32 WHEN DOCTORS HOLIDAY FESTIVAL BECOME PATIENTS 40 YPPA Join us in the big white tent Dr. Jerome H. Unatin’s eye- The next generation opening journey as a patient gives back 4| PULSE Winter 2015 EDITOR’S LETTER CONTRIBUTORS Turning 65? On a Retiree Plan? Have Recently Become Eligible for Medicare? LAURA ROE STEVENS Laura is a South Bay freelance writer, yoga teacher, budding novelist and mom of two adorable boys. INNER PEACE, TWO WAYS CAROLE JAKUCS, RN, BSN, PHN Torrance Health IPA Can Help Carole is a freelance writer, certified public health nurse and Learn about Medicare and the different types of insurance plans available to you including Medicare HMO, ere in the South Bay, we’re in the midst of an unseasonably warm autumn, so for many, health/fitness enthusiast who Supplements (or Medi-gap), and Part D prescription plans. Attend THIPA’s monthly complimentary... the idea of winter sports is not top of mind. But chances are Torrance Memorial Medical writes for a variety of publications. Center anesthesiologist Stanley Chang, MD, the subject of this issue’s “Healthiest Person H I Know” article (page 26), has already planned his winter escapes. For most of us, being dropped from a helicopter onto a mountaintop and then urged to ski to the bottom does not a relaxing vacation make. But for Dr. Chang and his skiing partner Ramin Mirhashemi, MD, heli- Medicare skiing, as it’s called, is bliss. “It’s fantastic to be out in nature,” says Dr. Chang. “It’s very peaceful EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM doing your own thing—you have a sense of freedom. It’s very serene and meditative. We’re not 101 Moderated by Norman Panitch MD, Chairman, THIPA Physician Council thrill seeking by any means. We try to minimalize the danger, not seek it out.” Seating is limited. For those of you who prefer to seek inner peace in a comfortable room without the fear of avalanches, perhaps now would be a good time to remind you of the many different yoga classes To learn about the next event date or to make a reservation visit Torrance Memorial has to offer at both the Health Education Center in Torrance and the Center of www.thipa.org/Medicare101 or call 310-257-7239 Healthy Living (Malaga Cove) in Palos Verdes, including chair yoga, yoga basics, restorative yoga, NANCY SOKOLER STEINER * This is an Educational Program Not a Sales Meeting. yoga therapy and more. Offerings rotate throughout the year. For more information, see our Nancy is a freelance writer Doors open half an hour early for registration Complimentary meal will be provided Calendar (page 22), visit torrancememorial.org/classes or call 310-517-4711. specializing in health, medicine and human interest. Torrance Health IPA (THIPA) is a non-profit multi-specialty physician network and a division of Torrance Memorial Health System. Wishing you and yours a healthy—and peaceful—autumn and holiday season. Her work has appeared in THIPA has been serving the South Bay community for more than 30 years. Our members have access to high-quality and personalized Los Angeles Times Magazine, care from over 350 primary care and specialist physicians as well as the nationally recognized Torrance Memorial Medical Center. —The Editors Southbay Health and other publications. 1-310-257-7239 Need TTY services? Call 711 www.thipa.org 6| PULSE Winter 2015 THIPA Members: 1-866-568-4472 Pulse_AD_Color_9x11.indd 1 11/2/15 5:39 PM HEALTH LINKS HEALTH LINKS 10-12 lbs. 27 lbs. 40 lbs. 49 lbs. 60 lbs. 0 DEGREES 15 DEGREES 30 DEGREES 45 DEGREES 60 DEGREES TORRANCE MEMORIAL’S HYBRID OPERATING HYBRID ROOM OFFERS THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES. SUCCESS WRITTEN BY NANCY SOKOLER STEINER | PHOTOGRAPHED BY JEFF BERTING any cardiovascular problems The hybrid OR is used to perform lar surgeon Amir Kaviani, MD. “Tor- Salman Azam, MD. “The results of the can be treated in the cardiac a full range of endovascular services, rance Memorial Medical Center was procedure were excellent, and she was catheterization lab—also including abdominal aortic aneurysm the first hospital in Southern California discharged home within a few days. Mknown as the cath lab— repair. It’s also used for carotid artery to create a hybrid lab in 2007, a radical Torrance Memorial Medical Center is where heart abnormalities can be stenting, a procedure in which a tube advancement in vascular surgery.” now at the forefront of cardiovascular corrected with minimally invasive or other device is used to expand the An even more advanced hybrid OR treatment options, performing THE NEW EPIDEMIC: TEXT NECK procedures. Other cardiac problems vital arteries that supply oxygenated was central to the hospital’s plans for cutting-edge procedures and surgeries require surgery in a traditional blood to the head and neck, thereby the Lundquist Tower. With the tower’s to provide the best outcomes for KEEP YOUR HEAD UP! operating room. Torrance Memorial reducing the risk of stroke. November 2014 opening, the new hy- patients with cardiac diseases. The Medical Center can do it all in a state- In the not-so-distant past, compli- brid OR paved the way for the medical state-of-the-art hybrid OR, TAVR WRITTEN BY REBECCAH GLASER of-the-art hybrid operating room at its cated heart procedures could only be center to become first in the South Bay procedure and the new Lundquist Lundquist Cardiovascular Institute: performed using open-heart surgery. to offer even more advanced proce- Tower are just a few examples of the n the early 2000s, it was carpal Center physical therapist Yolande Mavity, should be supported with a chair; put a Did you know The hybrid OR gives the hospital’s Today physicians use angiography, tak- dures such as transcatheter aortic valve dedication and commitment Torrance tunnel syndrome.