Recipe for Go Green Smoothie

If any of you are wanting to try making the Go Green Smoothie which I mentioned in an earlier post, here's your chance. Go to RECIPE. Let me know what you think.

Helping Patients Shed the Pounds

Southeast Baptist Hospital is using special software to help tailor a patient's diets to best meet their needs and help them to loose weight. Check out the news story that aired on Kens 5 TV.

Center for the Intrepid: Serving the Wounded

Baptist Health System's Chief Development Officer Michael Zucker and I took a tour of the Center for the Intrepid at Brooke Army Medical Center. View photos from our visit.


INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE CENTER

• The 4-story, 65,000-square-foot (6,000 m2) facility was officially dedicated on January 29, 2007.
  


• Guests attending the ceremony included United States Senators John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
  


• The structure was financed entirely by private donations.
  


• Over 600,000 people contributed to the $50 million construction cost.

Health Education and a "Go Green Smoothie" at the Pearson Company

As part of our community outreach and commitment to health education we spent time in the community with employees from the Pearson company on Bulverde Road. In conjunction with their health awareness week we provided information on diet, diabetes, and heart disease. Sanjay Kumar, MD, and William Mallott, M.D., from the BHS Physicians Network spoke on the benefits of good heart health, heart disease prevention, and diabetes awareness and prevention.

Registered Dietitian Jennifer Meachum RD, LD, CNSD, spent one-on-one time educating employees on good diet and nutrition. Jennifer also demonstrated how to make a very colorful "Go Green Smoothie." Packed with phytonutrients (pronounced FIGHT-O), which, just as the word sounds, has been show to fight certain cancers and reduce the risk of heart disease and aging the smoothie is made with baby spinach, frozen bananas, frozen mangoes, frozen peaches and water. I asked Jennifer to make mine without the banana and it was surprisingly delicious and nutritious. See Photos.

Rotary Honors Mr. Bill Greehey at Haven for Hope Luncheon

On Friday I attended the Rotary Club of San Antonio all clubs luncheon honoring Mr. Bill Greehey, chairman of NuStar Energy and chairman of Haven for Hope, for his work and leadership on the new campus for the homeless. Mr. "Red" McCombs was the keynote speaker and discussed how Mr. Greehey had worked tirelessley on founding and serving as Chairman for Haven for Hope. The facility is already considered a national model in the fight against homelessness.

About Haven for Hope
The 37-acre Haven for Hope Campus is located adjacent to the Central Business District, west of downtown San Antonio and will include approximately 440,000 square feet of space under roof, with 998 beds and a courtyard area with the capacity to sleep over 500 additional individuals.The project has also served as a revitalization effort to the surrounding neighborhood through the addition of high quality new buildings and the renovation of several abandoned buildings. The Campus is partially open and is expected to be fully completed in Fall 2009.

Learn More about Haven for Hope

Baptist at Booker T. Washington Elementary School

As part of our community outreach we participate in providing community education via schools. We had the privilege of speaking to kinder through second grade students at Booker T. Washington Elementary School, near the San Antonio Alamodome, downtown.

Brian Treuhaft, DO, Board Certified in Internal Medicine, from the BHS Physicians Network, Melissa Castano, RD, LD and Kevin Haubrick, MS, RD, LD from Baptist Medical Center Dietary and Donna Hedges, Nursing Instructor from the Baptist Health System School of Health Professions talked about their respective professions, why they decided to go into their field of expertise, and how they needed to work hard in school in order to make it in their chosen profession. The children were very excited and interested to hear from these professionals and find out more about how they too can one day become a doctor, nurse or dietitian. See more photos.

American Heart Association hosts Heart Ball at the Grand Hyatt

The Grand Hyatt was full of activity the other night as the American Heart Association hosted its annual Heart Ball to raise funds to fight heart disease. Lauren Thomas, Linda Vieweg, Cynthia Beverly, Sandy Levy, and the whole team at the American Heart Association worked hard to create a spectacular event and raise awareness about this deadly disease.

Learn about coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure.

It's National Nurses Week

National Nurses Week kicks off every year on May 6, the birthday of Florence Nightingale. Baptist Health System greatly appreciates all of the unselfish hard work our nurses put into their job. Thank you for all that you do.

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