Health News Advances training in pelvic floor rehab
Insight House receives holiday match grant
Nicole Hebert, a physical therapist at Little Falls Hospital, a part of the Bassett Healthcare Network, recently advanced her training in pelvic floor therapy to include bowel dysfunction and treatment of the male pelvic floor. Hebert has been evaluating and treating the female pelvic floor for 10 years. Hebert With her advanced training, treatment is available for men and women with urinary or fecal incontinence, constipation, urgency and frequency of urination, and pain in the pelvic region. This includes pain in the abdomen, buttocks, pelvic floor, tailbone, vagina, rectum, penis or testicles. The pelvic floor muscles may become weak, tight or spastic as a result of disuse, surgery or trauma.
Insight House Chemical Dependency Services, Inc. in Utica has received a Stewart’s Holiday Match grant of $500 to purchase drug and alcohol educational materials directed at adolescents. Funding was made possible by Stewart’s Holiday Match Grant, as customers donated more than $945,000 last year from Thanksgiving Day through Christmas Day. Stewart’s matched the amount collected, bringing the total amount awarded to charities and organizations to over $1.89 million. Since 1971, Insight House has provided professional and confidential drug and alcohol treatment services to individuals and their families. The agency is the largest substance abuse treatment center in Central New York, and offers a comprehensive range of outpatient, day rehabilitation and residential programs.
Insight House names employees of quarter Marisa Graziano and Tom Marszalek were named employees of the quarter for the first quarter of 2018 at Insight House in Utica. Supervisors nominate employees of the quarter for their reliability, quality of work, initiative, professionalism and uniqueness of contribution. Graziano, of New Hartford, is business office manager. Her responsibilities include scheduling intake appointments with clients, processing approved purchase orders and vouchers, Graziano maintaining accounts payable and receivable, and preparing claims for reimbursement from funding sources. She was nominated by her supervisor, controller Sue McGuiggan, and has been employed at Insight House for 20 years. Marszalek, of Whitesboro, is a chemical dependency counselor in the outpatient department, and specializes in group, individual and family clinical services. His supervisor, outpatient clinic director BevMarszalek erly Fellone, nominated him. Marszalek has worked at Insight House for six years.
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MVHS names policy management coordinator Linda Baird has been named policy management coordinator for the Mohawk Valley Health System. In this new position, she trains policy owners and approvers in utilization of the PolicyStat system while assisting them and their department staff in maintaining organizational policies and procedures. Prior to joinBaird ing MVHS, Baird was employed by Sodexo, where she most recently served as manager of the service response center and patient transport services at the MVHS St. Luke’s campus. She also previously served as manager of the service response center at the Faxton campus and in nutrition services at the St. Luke’s campus. Baird completed the basic medical terminology course and is a certified ISO 9001:2015 internal auditor for MVHS. She serves as a member of the MVHS decontamination team, life safety committee and medical records committee.
MVHS names new stroke outreach nurse Jennifer Hurd has been named stroke outreach nurse for the Mohawk Valley Health System. In this position, Hurd is responsible for ongoing needs assessment and planning, development and implementation of community education outreach initiatives designed to increase knowledge in the community about the causes, signs and symptoms and risk factors for stroke.
She will also educate on the interventions available, their time sensitivity and that stroke is a medical emergency. Hurd has worked for Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare and MVHS for more than 19 years. She has held positions as a staff nurse, clinician on the stroke Hurd unit and general education clinician. Hurd earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from SUNY Institute
of Technology at Utica-Rome in Utica and her associate’s degree in nursing from St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing in Syracuse.
MVHS names talent acquisition specialist Cori Grubner has been named talent acquisition specialist for the Mohawk Valley Health System. In this position, Grubner is responsible for the full life cycle of talent acquisition activities, including relationship building with the local resource pool and community, hiring managers and candidates.
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Health equals wealth
Women’s Business Center leader provides guidelines to prosperity
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f you ever thought about starting a business or are operating one, then staying healthy is vital for your continuing financial success. Dr. Patricia Laino offers the following guidelines to promoting health while being in business. She is called “Dr. Pat” by the thousands of business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs that have been trained and Laino coached by her for over two decades. Hundreds of these entrepreneurs went on to start and operate robust and healthy business operations. Current business data reveals that more than 85 percent of all small businesses in America fail in the first three years of operation, while approximately 83 percent of Dr. Pat’s entrepreneurs that start a business thrive, succeed and remain healthy. “Going into your own business is one of the most important steps you will ever take in your life,” she said. “You must have a unique product or service that can produce a healthy profit, a prime location that attracts sufficient customers, be better than your competitors and maintain a strong desire to succeed, while staying healthy in the process. Implementing all of these elements will contribute to a healthy and wealthy business enterprise.” Dr. Pat’s advice to those already in business or thinking about starting one is: — Do you have the management skills and expertise in the business
IN GOOD HEALTH – Mohawk Valley’s Healthcare Newspaper • May 2018
field that you want to enter? — Are there enough customers who will want to buy from you? —Will you be in a prime location? — How much money are you putting in and how much money do you need to get started or expand? After you have researched and responded to these basic questions, then it’s time to begin working on your own individualized Business Plan that will result in your future healthy and successful business venture. If you would like to learn more of Dr. Pat’s “secrets” about operating a successful business, you can go to drpatlaino.com or purchase her book entitled “Unlock the American Dream” from Amazon or Barnes & Noble. • Dr. Patricia K. Laino is the executive director of the Women’s Business Center of New York State.