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MORNING STAR • ApRIl 8 - 14, 2010
Doctors are honored at Nanticoke Hospital By Lynn R. Parks
The staff of Harry A Lehman, III, MD, PA is celebrating a 5-2-1-Almost None Day in the office. Pictured (first row) are Amy Calloway, Dr. Lehman, Lisa Yoder (second row) Jody Cyr, Michelle Reid, Kendra Schlabach, Kim Reed and Tammy Shockley.
Dr. Harry Lehman’s staff ready for Annual Community Walk, April 17 Dr. Lehman’s office is getting prepped for the “Spring into Health Community Walk” on Saturday, April 17. The 4th Annual Community Walk is a joint effort between the Sussex Child Health Promotion Coalition and the towns of Seaford, Laurel, Bridgeville, Georgetown and Lewes. This year’s theme is Get Out, Get Moving and Get Healthy. The walk will highlight Delaware’s State Parks and local parks as a great place to get outside and be physically active. Learn about the Trail Challenge and the 5-2-1-Almost None program, which promotes prevention of childhood obesity by encouraging daily; 5 fruits or vegetables, less than 2 hours of screen time, 1 hour of exercise and Almost None of the sugary drinks like soda or energy drinks. There is no cost for walking. The first 100 children at each site will receive a free T-shirt for participating. The walks occur simultaneously in all five towns at the following locations: Seaford High School Athletic Complex Track - 8:30 a.m. registration, 9 a.m. walk
Laurel Senior High School - 9:30 a.m. registration, 10 a.m. walk Woodbridge Athletic Complex - 8:30 a.m. registration, 9 a.m. walk Sussex Tech High School - 8:30 a.m. registration, 9 a.m. walk The Villages at Five Points - 8:30 a.m. registration, 9 a.m. walk
Golf Tournament/Dinner Dance
Century 21 Ramey Real Estate is hosting a Golf Tournament/Dinner Dance to benefit Easter Seals on Friday, May 7, at Heritage Shores Club in Bridgeville. Golf teams of four are $400 and will include 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes, gross and net divisions, as well as closest to the pin on all Par 3’s. Dinner Dance tickets are $50. Activities include: cocktails, dinner, dancing, silent, live and Chinese auctions, and a 50/50 raffle. Join the fun and help support people with disabilities in the local community. Call 628-9000 for registration or tickets.
Doctors’ Day is celebrated throughout the United States every year on March 30. This year, in addition to its traditional Doctors’ Day breakfast and lunch, Nanticoke Health Services handed out awards to four of its affiliated doctors. The ceremony was held right after the lunch in Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. “Doctors aren’t always appreciated for all that they do,” said Natasha Snead, Nanticoke medical staff officer and organizer of the awards ceremony. “They have families and kids and they still come into the hospital and give of their time.” And much of that time is donated. “If they serve on a committee or on a department board, they aren’t paid for that,” said medical staff president Dr. Harry Anthony, who has a family practice in Georgetown. Awardees were doctors Robert Ferber, Joseph Kim, Jose Barriocanal and Mark Granada. “We are very proud of all of you, of the results of all that you do and of the care that you give,” said Nanticoke CEO Steve Rose. “We appreciate that you have the overall welfare of the community in interest.” Ferber, an internist with a practice in Seaford, received the physician leadership award. He started the Nanticoke hospitalist program, through which doctors exclusively tend to patients at the hospital. That program “is wonderful,” Anthony said. “It has improved the overall health care in this institution.” In announcing the award, Anthony said that Ferber “is always willing to step up and help out where needed.” He added, “He works day in and day out to improve the care that we give here.” Kim, who has a family practice in Laurel, was given the physician innovation award. “He is a relatively new physician here and he has shown us new ways of dealing with old problems,” including using technology to communicate with patients, Anthony said. “He is surely one of the future leaders of the medical staff.”
Barriocanal and Granada received physician service commitment awards. Barriocanal, a Seaford urologist, “practices in a very quiet way,” said Joaquin Cabrera, Seaford obstetrician and gynecologist and president-elect of the medical staff. “But he is always available to the medical staff and is always willing to help out. Patients appreciate the care that he gives them and he deserves tremendous recognition for all the years he has been involved with the staff.” Granada also is a quiet man, Cabrera said. But the Seaford pulmonologist “at the same time is a leader and has always been available for whoever needed him,” he added. “He is always somebody I can trust to have interesting conversation as well as to be informed about medicine.” Anthony said that he, Cabrera and Snead selected the winners for the awards. “First we decided on our categories and then it was easy,” he said. “Certain names just rose right to the surface.” Anthony and Snead agreed that the awards ceremony will probably become an annual event. “I believe that it was wellreceived,” Snead said.
Master Gardeners Helpline
The Sussex County Master Gardeners announce the opening of the Sussex County Garden Helpline for the 2010 gardening season. The Helpline is a free and valuable gardening resource for Sussex County residents. Master Gardeners are able to provide information and help on a wide variety of gardening topics including: lawns, vegetable gardens, perennial gardens, shrubs and insects. The Helpline will be open from April 15 through Oct. 15. Master Gardeners will be manning the phones from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. Call 856-2585, ext. 535, to speak with a master gardener or leave a message. A master gardener will respond to your questions as quickly as possible.
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