Parents are in the best position to help alleviate their kid’s fear. They can best help their kids deal with all emotions related to COVID-19. In addition to fear, children may also be facing anxiety and disappointment of missed opportunities…
How to Make a Cloth Face Mask
In an effort to help contain the spread of Covid-19, you may wish to make cloth face masks to donate to local hospitals or for your own use. Here is a hospital-approved tutorial and more information on how to make…
#ThankAHealthCareHero
Today, we would ask one more thing of our community: #ThankAHealthCareHero Martin Padgett is the Chief Executive Officer at Clark Memorial Health in Jeffersonville and he brings to us some encouraging words of his own. He states that it has been…
Small Business Supplies PPE for Eskenazi Health
A new small business adjusted to creating supplies of critical personal protective equipment (PPE) for Eskenazi Health. During the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Indy executive director Tedd Grain called Polina Osherove with an important…
Q & A with an Infectious Disease Expert
In a Q&A, Mayo Clinic infectious diseases expert, Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse answers questions about stay-at-home orders and how they work to slow down an infection rate of a disease. These types of orders have been issued around the country. It…
Here When You Need Us
All Hoosier hospitals are here when you need us. Ascension St. Vincent hospitals, clinics, and facilities in Indiana, want you to know they are here for you, now more so than ever. Caregivers are motivated by a calling, to bring…
A Healthy Light in the Coal Mine
Supporting health and wellness in Indiana’s coal counties Helping just about any group to get a better handle on health and wellness is no easy task. It’s especially challenging when the group is coal miners living and working in smaller…
A Few Tips to Help Manage Your Mental Health
Deaconess Recreational Therapist Jessica Putney shares a few tips to help manage your mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her number one tip? Try to remain active! Exercise is an effective way to decrease anxiety and depression, which many of…
100 Million Masks Challenge
Hospital workers must have personal protective equipment (PPE) to care for COVID-19 patients. The demand for masks and gowns has been so high, the American Hospital Association has responded to that need with the A Million Masks program. The call…
COVID-19 Guide for Parents
COVID-19 is the topic on everyone’s minds these days and this helpful guide for parents may provide some answers when talking to your kids. They may ask about what it is or if they might get it. A Pediatric Infectious…
