Heart Safe La Plata offering CPR program
Heart Safe La Plata, using the American Heart Association’s Family and Friends CPR Anytime program, is offering a CPR training for youth groups, schools, parent-teacher organizations, churches, workplace-wellness groups and civic groups.
The core skills of CPR will be taught using a 22-minute DVD and a mannequin. The DVD includes information about child CPR, choking and automated external defibrillators.
Class participants will not receive a certification, but they will be able to perform CPR in an emergency with full protection of the Good Samaritan Law.
To host a class, call Mike Brace at 946-5090 and leave a message.
For more information, visit www.cpranytime.org or www.heartsafelaplata.org/CPRAnytime.htm.
Mercy recognized for patient engagement
Mercy Regional Medical Center announces it has been recognized for its patient engagement efforts in the first National Patient Engagement Ranking by Axial Exchange, a pioneer in using mobile apps to improve health care, and Becker’s Hospital Review, a health-care trade publication.
Ranked 30th out of the top 100 hospitals evaluated, Mercy’s patient engagement efforts were reviewed based on an analysis of publicly available data. A full explanation of the methodology used for the evaluation can be found at http://axialexchange.com/engagement/methodology.
For more information, visit www.mercydurango.org.
Al-Anon, Al-Ateen groups available
Al-Anon or Al-Ateen (ages 12-19) groups are available for people who have been affected by someone else’s drinking.
All meetings are one hour and meet during all holidays. There are seven meeting per week in Durango.
Meetings take place at noon Monday and Friday and 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 495 Florida Road. Free child care is available.
Meetings take place at noon Tuesday and Thursday and at 7 p.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church, 1159 East Third Ave. The Al-Ateen group meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday upstairs in the library of the church. Participants should enter from East Third Avenue to the left of the church.
Meetings in Pagosa Springs take place at 6 p.m. Tuesday at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, 225 South Pagosa Blvd., and at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Pagosa Springs AA Clubhouse, 234 County Road 200/Second Street North.
Meetings in Cortez take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday at High County Village, AA Hall, 27516 U.S. Highway 160.
For more information, visit www.al-anon-co.org or call 259-2982.
Summer prime season for West Nile Virus
San Juan Basin Health Department reminds residents that summer is prime season for West Nile Virus.
People are urged to use preventive measures, including mitigating the conditions where mosquitoes can hatch as well as protecting themselves and family against mosquito bites.
West Nile Virus is most commonly transmitted through mosquitoes. The majority of people who contract the virus do not develop any symptoms.
About 1 in 5 who are infected will become ill with fever and other symptoms such as headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea or rash. Most people with this type of West Nile Virus recover completely.
Less than 1 percent of those infected with the virus will develop a more serious neurologic infection. There are no vaccines or specific treatments for the virus.
For more information, visit www.sjbhd.org or www.cdc.gov.
Herald Staff
