Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Please don't Ruin American Healthcare

This is an interesting video. Thanks to our Youtube friends and Fired up Missouri folks ( http://www.firedupmissouri.com/ ).


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I hear some of these arguments all the time.

Free seasonal flu shots St. Louis, Missouri

Below is a listing of "free" flu shots from Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. This is not the "swine flu" variety.

Your officers urge folks to get the free shots next week. Several members are going Monday to get the freebie. Save $25 bucks is always a good idea and note, reports of folks that their doctors do not give these shots abound.

I took advantage of this last year and had very little trouble and amazingly enough, they were fast. I waited for the bus longer than I waited in line and busses in St. Louis for that route run faily often.

Varied locations listed in city, St. Louis county and Jefferson county. Pass on the word please.

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Barnes-Jewish Expands Locations for Free Seasonal Flu Shots This Fall
If you are a reporter and you want to set up an interview:
Media Contact:
Jason Merrill
314-286-0302
jmerrill@bjc.org

If you are a member of the public and have questions about the free flu vaccinations:
Call:
314-TOP-DOCS (867-3627)
or
866-TOP-DOCS (867-3627)

September 4, 2009, ST. LOUIS – Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital are expanding the list of dates and locations for free seasonal flu vaccines to the St. Louis community for people age 6 months or older. The vaccines are made possible through funding by the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation.

In addition to free vaccines the week of October 5 at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, vaccines will be offered as part of BJC HealthCare’s “Healthy Mind-Body-Spirit” faith based outreach program.

In 2008, over 30,000 people were vaccinated through these efforts and over 35,000 will be available this year. Latex-free vaccines are available for individuals with latex allergies. The vaccinations will be offered at the following locations at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and throughout the St. Louis community:


Monday, October 5- Friday, October 9
7 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Adult vaccinations only (18+ years old)
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, south lobby
One Barnes-Jewish Hospital Plaza
St. Louis, MO 63110
Parking is available at the South Garage for $1.50/hr.


Monday, October 5- Friday, October 9
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Center for Advanced Medicine - 3rd floor
4921 Parkview Place
St. Louis, MO 63110
Parking is available at the North Garage for $1.50/hr.


Saturday, October 10
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Emerson Family YMCA
3390 Pershall Road
St. Louis, MO 63135


Sunday, October 11
11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Creve Coeur Safety Fair
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
Siteman Cancer Center, Medical Office Building 2
10 Barnes West Drive
Creve Coeur, MO 63141
Safety Fair Parking is Free of Charge


Wednesday, October 14
9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Edward Jones Family YMCA
12521 Marine Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63146

Saturday, October 17
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
South County Family YMCA
12736 Southfork Road
St. Louis, MO 63128

Saturday, October 24
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Live Life Aware: A health, wellness and cancer prevention fair.
Monsanto Family YMCA
5555 Page Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63112

Dates and locations for free vaccinations as part of BJC HealthCare’s “Healthy Mind-Body-Spirit” faith-based outreach program are:

Saturday, October 3
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Christ Our Redeemer
13820 Old Jamestown Rd
Florissant, MO 63033-4515


Sunday, October 11
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Friendly Temple
5544 Dr Martin Luther King Dr
Saint Louis, MO 63140


Friday, October 16
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Urban League – Jennings
8960 Jennings Station Rd
St Louis, MO 63136


Sunday, October 18
12 – 3 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Christ the King UCC
11370 Old Halls Ferry Road
Florissant, MO 63033


Tuesday, October 20
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Grace Hill – Hadley
2524 Hadley
St. Louis, MO 63106


Wednesday, October 21
6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Shalom City of Peace (TBD)
5491 N Highway 67
St. Louis, MO 63034


Friday, October 23
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
100 Black Men
4631 Delmar Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63108


Sunday, October 25
12 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Central Baptist
2842 Washington Ave
St Louis, MO 63103


Friday, October 30
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Urban League - Grendel
3701 Grandel Square
St. Louis, MO 63108


Saturday, October 31
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
St. John UCC Annual Health Fair
4136 N Grand Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63107


Sunday, November 1
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
New Sunnymount
4700 W Florissant Ave
St Louis, MO 63115


Saturday, November 7
10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Adult & Pediatric vaccinations (6 months & up)
Delta Sigma Theta
3858 Washington Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63108

All doses will be on a first come, first served basis while supplies last. No pre-registration is required. For more information, call 314-TOP-DOCS (867-3627).

Seasonal flu vaccine does not protect against the H1N1 or Swine Flu Virus. It is highly recommended that people receive the seasonal flu vaccine each year to protect against other strands of flu.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends the following adults be vaccinated each year:

1.) People at high risk for complications from the flu.



· People 65 years and older;

· People who live in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities that house those with long-term illnesses;

· Adults with chronic heart or lung conditions, including asthma;

· Adults who needed regular medical care or were in a hospital during the previous year because of a metabolic disease (like diabetes), chronic kidney disease, or weakened immune system (including immune system problems caused by medicines or by infection with human immunodeficiency virus [HIV/AIDS]);

· Women who will be pregnant during the influenza season;

· People with any condition that can compromise respiratory function or the handling of respiratory secretions (that is, a condition that makes it hard to breathe or swallow, such as brain injury or disease, spinal cord injuries, seizure disorders, or other nerve or muscle disorders.)

2.) People 50 to 64 years of age. Because nearly one-third of people 50 to 64 years of age in the United States have one or more medical conditions that place them at increased risk for serious flu complications, vaccination is recommended for all persons aged 50 – 64 years.

3.) People who can transmit flu to others at high risk for complications. Any person in close contact with someone in a high-risk group (see above) should get vaccinated. This includes all health-care workers, household contacts and out-of-home caregivers of children 0 to 23 months of age, and close contacts of people 65 years and older.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends the following guidelines for children:

· Influenza vaccination is recommended for all children aged 6 months to 5 years.

· Influenza vaccination is also of benefit to older children.

· If this is the first year your child is receiving the flu vaccine and he/she is under the age of 9 years, a second follow-up vaccine is required four weeks after the first dose for maximum effectiveness. (Only the first dose will be given at these clinics; you will need to see your primary healthcare provider for the follow-up vaccine).
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Protect Insurance Companies

This vid is making its round on the internet. A little over two minutes and worth watching.
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excellent satire

Rolling Stone's Sick and Wrong healthcare article

Rolling Stone's folks have added to the healthcare reform fight and this article is well worth reading:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29988909/sick_and_wrong

From the article:

"Page 1 of 7 Watch Matt Taibbi break down his report on the sad state of health care reform in his blog, Taibblog.

Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It's become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment — a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn't be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.

The system doesn't work for anyone. It cheats patients and leaves them to die, denies insurance to 47 million Americans, forces hospitals to spend billions haggling over claims, and systematically bleeds and harasses doctors with the specter of catastrophic litigation. Even as a mechanism for delivering bonuses to insurance-company fat cats, it's a miserable failure: Greedy insurance bosses who spent a generation denying preventive care to patients now see their profits sapped by millions of customers who enter the system only when they're sick with incurably expensive illnesses.

The cost of all of this to society, in illness and death and lost productivity and a soaring federal deficit and plain old anxiety and anger, is incalculable — and that's the good news. The bad news is our failed health care system won't get fixed, because it exists entirely within the confines of yet another failed system: the political entity known as the United States of America."

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Crumbling of America

History television had this on last evening. I suggest all of the group watch it when it reairs next week. 56 on city charter cable. This will be topic at future Soar meeting for it does impact all of us.

St. Louis, Missouri is mentioned. It's sewer system is leaking waste everywhere. That is why in some places sewer bills have doubled.

Also mentioned is highway mess and St. Louis again has a spotlight.

One also has to worry about the electrical systems, water systems and more. I have heard stories of "construction practices" in some of the subdivisions and the stories are not good. You have as well I am certain.
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Here is a snip: