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14 Fun :Reaching Out ONGOing eVENTS at Ochsner Golden Opportunity is a membership program for seniors age 50 or better that promotes an active, healthy lifestyle, with more than 10 wellness, educational and social events offered each month, plus travel opportunities. £ To learn about upcoming events, call the location nearest you. New Orleans: 1-888-306-2189 West Bank: 504-391-5353; TTY 504-207-1226 Baton Rouge: 225-755-4984 Hello Health is a healthcare seminar series for the community. Reaching from New Orleans, the Bayou, the West Bank, to the North Shore and to Baton Rouge, each week a relevant and important health topic or current medical trend is discussed. Discussions are led by a physician or a healthcare expert at either a restaurant or other convenient location. £ Visit www.ochsner.org/hello health or call 1-888-306-2318 for upcoming topics and locations. Tune in! Hello Health is now on TV every fourth Monday of the month on LAE–TV at 8 p.m. HELLO HEALTH A WEEKLY SEMINAR SERIES FOR THE COMMUNITY on the run P Get on board Want the mobile unit to visit? Visit www.elmwood fitness.com for the criteria and application. Or to learn more, view the Mobile Fitness Unit video on Ochsner Video Health Links at www.ochsner.org. “On the Move” worked with 4th and 5th graders at Samuel Green Charter School in New Orleans twice a week for five months. On the Move takes “I Can Do It” on the road “We’re the second fattest state for kids,” says Douglas Moodie, M.D., M.S., Chairman of Pediatrics at Ochsner Medical Center for Children in New Orleans. “The growing childhood obesity epidemic and the continual reduction of P.E. classes in schools has us headed in the wrong direction.” In response to this crisis, Elmwood Fitness Center launched its “I Can Do It” program a few years ago. The program has been very successful in teaching children about exercise and nutrition as the basis for a healthy lifestyle. But it was only reaching the kids who came to the center. That’s why “On the Move,” a mobile fitness unit, was built. “On the Move” operates out of a custom 50-foot long truck filled with kid-friendly exercise equipment and a demonstration kitchen. It expands to 12 feet wide when parked and includes an awning and an outdoor entertainment system to reach kids inside and out. Air conditioning and plasma screens add to the fun and comfortable environment. “The mobile unit was a six-year dream of mine,” says Michael Heim, Youth Fitness Manager at Elmwood Fitness Center. “We want to give kids a positive experience and inspire their confidence.” The Mobile Fitness Unit was named a CityBusiness [“Innovator of the Year” for 2008. 1-866-Ochsner www.ochsner.org
Surgical Weight Loss Support Group Meetings Dates & TIMEs 12–1 p.m. October 21 November 18 December 16 5:30–6:30 p.m. October 21 November 18 December 16 Location Brent House Conference Center at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans: Caldwell and LeJeune Rooms (2nd floor) £ Call 1-888-204-7844 for more information. OUTREACH OCHSNER in the community FEBRUARY 13, 2008 Students from area colleges and universities participated in a job shadow day at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans where they learned about careers at the hospital in a broad variety of disciplines. MARCH 8, 2008 Staff from Ochsner Baptist Medical Center helped build a new playground in the Uptown area for a charter school in New Orleans. MARCH 8, 2008 Junior Girl Scouts earned the Science Discovery badge by completing activities at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. MARCH 18, 2008 Michelle Atzenhoffer, from Ochsner Baptist Medical Center, visited Samuel J. Green Charter School in New Orleans to teach students how to stay healthy with good hand-washing habits. 15 rock and ride The 4th annual Rock and Ride to fight childhood obesity will be held November 15. The fundraising event features spinning to live music and proceeds benefit the “I Can Do It” program. £ Call 1-888-306-3199 for more information on the Rock and Ride or the Mobile Fitness Unit. MARCH 19, 2008 Merit students from George Cox Elementary School in Gretna were given a tour of the operating rooms at Ochsner Medical Center – West Bank. APRIL 11, 2008 Staff from Ochsner Medical Center – West Bank dug into a landscaping project at George Cox Elementary School, the first step in creating an outdoor reading sanctuary.
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