Pediatric OT helps the Gallegos family
Cameron is learning important life skills, with great success, from occupational therapist Rachel Griffin. ...
Celebrate a safe Christmas
The American Academy of Pediatrics reminds us that each year, thousands of toddlers and children are injured by toys. Most injuries from toys are minor cuts, scrapes and bruises. However, toys can cause serious injury or even death. Here are tips to help you choose safe and appropriate toys for your child: Read the label. Warning labels give important information about how to use a toy and what ages the toy...
Dr. Lisa Zwerdlinger honored with Rural Health Excellence award
Primary care physician and chief medical officer of St. Vincent Health Dr. Lisa Zwerdlinger receives high honors from the Colorado Rural Health Center....
Healthcare Hospitality in Action
The tagline for St. Vincent Health is "Where caring and community meet". In this story told by our foundation director Steve Mercado, he shares how is own father was treated as if he were family....
A New Day in Healthcare does not mean new taxes and rising prices
St. Vincent Health CEO Brett Antczak unpacks questions about income and expense, and why the financial future's looking bright with the organization's new hospital....
Vaccination is Still the Best Defense Against COVID-19!
Haven't gotten around to getting the vaccine yet? There are several upcoming COVID vaccine clinics offered locally and regionally, for people ages 12 and up. ...
Just When is That New Hospital Opening, Anyway?
We’re keeping our sights on the long view and currently looking at a late summer opening. As with a great many things in the past 18 months, the delays have been COVID-related....
Snacks & Vax at the St. Vincent Family Health Center Open House!
St. Vincent Family Health Center OPEN HOUSE & Lake County Public Health Agency VACCINATION EVENT. FREE TACOS from El Mexicano. Food Truck for all who attend! Thursday June 10th 5 -8 p.m....
Longstanding & New Primary Care Providers to staff the New St. Vincent Family Health Center
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dr. Lisa Zwerdlinger, a family medicine provider in Lake County for 23 years and owner of Rocky Mountain Family Practice (RMFP) for 16 years, is gifting her family medicine practice to St. Vincent Health. Dr. Zwerdlinger also serves as a senior staff member at St. Vincent Health (SVH), as Chief Medical Officer and hospitalist. With this move, St. Vincent Medical Clinic and RMFP will merge on June 1, 2021, and...
Calling All Artists!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Consider the NEW St. Vincent Health and its blank and beautiful walls a canvas for your artwork. Read on for details here: SVH Seeking Artists [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...
Winter Conditioning – Compliments of the SVH PT Pros!
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It's Week #3 of Winter Conditioning! This time, Dave and Kelly lead you through Compound Sets: Deadlifts x 20 > Mountain climbers x 30-60seconds (repeat 4x) Gluteal bridges x 20 > Plank x 30-60 seconds (repeat 4x) Walking lunges x 20 steps > Jump Ropes: single/double limb x 30-60sec (repeat x 4) Squatted heel raises x 20 > wall sits x 30-60sec (repeat 4x) Follow along on the video here. Questions or comments?...
Healing and Health through Physical Therapy
Physical therapy (PT) is hands-on, collaborative care between a patient and a practitioner that aims to ease pain and help a person function, move, and live better. It can both prevent and heal chronic or acute injury. At St. Vincent, PT is an essential clinic and offers traditional therapies along with some new innovations for pain management, injury prevention and general physical conditioning and fitness. It’s helpful to know about two...
St. Vincent’s Brand Refresh Roll-Out
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] LETTER FROM THE INTERIM CEO, CORBIN LOGAN “The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson If health is indeed wealth, the Sisters of Charity who founded St. Vincent Hospital in 1879 to care for fortune-seeking miners were unquestionably the thought leaders of the day. Since then, St. Vincent has been a constant in Leadville and Lake County. Its historic roots continue to shape the organization today. Now we’re poised to open the...
Meet Jeremiah Grantham – NRP, Ambulance Services Director
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Paramedic Jeremiah Grantham leads the team prepared to respond to 911 calls and emergencies 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in the 400-square-mile Lake County service area. He is uniquely qualified to run Ambulances Services, with his commitment to patient-centered care, wilderness skills, and Nationally Registered Paramedic (NRP) accreditation—the highest level of certification available to a paramedic. Jeremiah is accomplished in advanced life support, can administer a range of medications...
