Events in January 2019
- - Safe Sitter - One Day with CPR & Choking Rescue Skills
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Safe Sitter - One Day with CPR & Choking Rescue SkillsThe next Safe Sitter Course is scheduled for Friday, January 4th from 9:00 am - 4:30 pm at South Peninsula Hospital. Registration is required by January 2nd - to register, please contact South Peninsula Hospital Health & Wellness at wellness@sphosp.org or by calling (907) 235-0970.
Safe Sitter is for students in grades 6-8 to learn skills to be safe when they're home alone, watching younger siblings, or babysitting. We will practice infant and child choking rescue, as well as infant and child CPR in addition to the other safety skills, first aid, life & business skills and child care skills.
The program fee is $50 per student, with scholarships available upon request. Click the link below to download and print the full informational flyer:
- - Walk with a Doc! with Dr. John Halligan, Medical Director of the Peninsula Radiation Oncology Center for “Open Mic on Cancer”.
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Walk with a Doc! with Dr. John Halligan, Medical Director of the Peninsula Radiation Oncology Center for “Open Mic on Cancer”.
Join South Peninsula Hospital and Peninsula Radiation Oncology Medical Director John Halligan, MD at SPARC (600 Sterling Hwy next to Homer Middle School) for our next “Walk with a Doc”! All are welcome Saturday, January 5th from 9:00 am-10:00 am for Dr. Halligan's brief open mic on cancer and spend the rest of the hour walking at your own pace, chatting & asking any questions. This is a free event, open to all ages and abilities! There is parking up at the SPARC and down below in the Homer Middle School Parking lot as well as a newly paved walking path from the Middle School parking lot! Find out more on Facebook or our page on the Walk with a Doc National website!Walk with a Doc is a nationwide walking program for everyone interested in taking steps for a healthier lifestyle. What better way to start your weekend than on your feet making strides to help your heart and improving your general health to live longer! While you walk at your own pace, you’ll have the opportunity to have questions answered by local physicians.
There will be free blood pressure screenings, prizes, and refreshments!
Please bring clean indoor walking shoes.
Upcoming walk: January 19th with Bobbi Cleary, MSCP, LPC on "Seasonal Affective Disorder - what it is and ways to cope with it".
Email wellness@sphosp.org, or call the Health & Wellness Department at (907) 235-0970 with questions or for more information!
- - Free Childbirth & Newborn Care Classes with West Wing Midwives
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Free Childbirth & Newborn Care Classes with West Wing MidwivesChildbirth, Newborn Care, and Breastfeeding classes offered free of charge to Homer Medical Center clients. These classes are all held on Tuesday Evenings from 5:30pm - 7:30pm in the South Peninsula Hospital Conference Rooms 1 & 2 (park in the lower parking lot and enter through the double doors by the cafeteria).
You may bring a coach with you to class, you may bring food, and you may come to all, just a few or even one class!
For questions contact Dana Whittaker, CNM or Julie McCarron, CNM at (907) 435-3040
2019 Class Schedule:
Tuesday, January 15th with Dana Whittaker, CNM: 3rd Trimester, anatomy, labor and birth.
Tuesday, January 22nd with Dana Whittaker, CNM: Breathing & relaxation techniques, other pain relief options.
Tuesday, January 29th with Dana Whittaker, CNM: Complications of labor and birth, tour of the Birth Place at South Peninsula Hospital.
Tuesday, February 5th with Julie McCarron, CNM or Sonja Martin-Young, CNM: Newborn care.
Tuesday, February 12th with Julie McCarron, CNM: Breastfeeding.
- - Living Well Alaska - NEW DATES - more time to register!
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Living Well Alaska - NEW DATES - more time to register!Wednesdays January 16 – February 20
Living Well Alaska is a six week group workshop for people dealing with ongoing health conditions or their family or caregivers. People with all kinds of long term conditions such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, heart disease, and other illnesses can benefit. It offers fun with others while you practice skills to live life to the fullest and meet day-to-day challenges. At a Living Well Alaska workshop, you will learn the skills to set goals, problem solve understand and handle symptoms, eat well and be active, deal with difficult emotions and work with your health care team
The cost is only $10 for the entire six-week series. Registration is required. For more information and to register, please call the hospital’s education department at (907) 235-0258.
- - American Heart Association CPR/AED and First Aid Classes
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American Heart Association CPR/AED and First Aid ClassesSouth Peninsula Hospital offers American Heart Association CPR/AED and First Aid Classes to the public regularly - please contact the Education Department at (907) 235-0258 for more information and to register.
- - Walk with a Doc! with Bobbi Cleary, MSCP, LPC - Seasonal Affective Disorder: what it is and ways to cope.
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Walk with a Doc! with Bobbi Cleary, MSCP, LPC - Seasonal Affective Disorder: what it is and ways to cope.
Join South Peninsula Hospital and Homer private practice counselor Bobbi Cleary, MSCP, LPC at SPARC (600 Sterling Hwy next to Homer Middle School) for our next “Walk with a Doc”! All are welcome Saturday, January 19th from 9:00 am-10:00 am for Bobbi's brief talk on Seasonal Affective Disorder - what it is and ways to cope with it and spend the rest of the hour walking at your own pace, chatting & asking any questions. This is a free event, open to all ages and abilities! There is parking up at the SPARC and down below in the Homer Middle School Parking lot. Find out more on Facebook or our page on the Walk with a Doc National website!Walk with a Doc is a nationwide walking program for everyone interested in taking steps for a healthier lifestyle. What better way to start your weekend than on your feet making strides to help your heart and improving your general health to live longer! While you walk at your own pace, you’ll have the opportunity to have questions answered by local physicians.
There will be free blood pressure screenings, prizes, and refreshments!
Please bring clean indoor walking shoes.
Upcoming walk: February 2nd with SPH Physical Therapist Kristen Rubio, DPT on exercise & chronic pain.
Email wellness@sphosp.org, or call the SPH Health & Wellness Department at (907) 235-0970 with questions or for more information!
- - Free Childbirth & Newborn Care Classes with West Wing Midwives
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Free Childbirth & Newborn Care Classes with West Wing MidwivesChildbirth, Newborn Care, and Breastfeeding classes offered free of charge to Homer Medical Center clients. These classes are all held on Tuesday Evenings from 5:30pm - 7:30pm in the South Peninsula Hospital Conference Rooms 1 & 2 (park in the lower parking lot and enter through the double doors by the cafeteria).
You may bring a coach with you to class, you may bring food, and you may come to all, just a few or even one class!
For questions contact Dana Whittaker, CNM or Julie McCarron, CNM at (907) 435-3040
2019 Class Schedule:
Tuesday, January 15th with Dana Whittaker, CNM: 3rd Trimester, anatomy, labor and birth.
Tuesday, January 22nd with Dana Whittaker, CNM: Breathing & relaxation techniques, other pain relief options.
Tuesday, January 29th with Dana Whittaker, CNM: Complications of labor and birth, tour of the Birth Place at South Peninsula Hospital.
Tuesday, February 5th with Julie McCarron, CNM or Sonja Martin-Young, CNM: Newborn care.
Tuesday, February 12th with Julie McCarron, CNM: Breastfeeding.
- - Living Well Alaska - NEW DATES - more time to register!
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Living Well Alaska - NEW DATES - more time to register!Wednesdays January 16 – February 20
Living Well Alaska is a six week group workshop for people dealing with ongoing health conditions or their family or caregivers. People with all kinds of long term conditions such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, heart disease, and other illnesses can benefit. It offers fun with others while you practice skills to live life to the fullest and meet day-to-day challenges. At a Living Well Alaska workshop, you will learn the skills to set goals, problem solve understand and handle symptoms, eat well and be active, deal with difficult emotions and work with your health care team
The cost is only $10 for the entire six-week series. Registration is required. For more information and to register, please call the hospital’s education department at (907) 235-0258.
South Peninsula Hospital Monthly Board of Directors MeetingSouth Peninsula Hospital Monthly Board of Directors MeetingMonthly Board meetings are held every fourth Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm in the hospital’s conference room. The public is welcome.
South Peninsula Hospital, Inc. is non-profit organization governed by a nine-member board of directors which ensures the hospital is fiscally sound while maintaining the quality of care and types of services desired by the residents in the Southern Kenai Peninsula Hospital Service Area.
The board is an all-volunteer board, with members appointed to three-year terms upon completing an interview process by the board’s Membership Committee.
The Board welcomes and encourages community input for the direction of your hospital. Please plan to attend a meeting (public comments are welcomed at the beginning and end of the meeting), or email a message to them at sphbod@sphosp.org.
- - Living Well Alaska - NEW DATES - more time to register!
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Living Well Alaska - NEW DATES - more time to register!Wednesdays January 16 – February 20
Living Well Alaska is a six week group workshop for people dealing with ongoing health conditions or their family or caregivers. People with all kinds of long term conditions such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, heart disease, and other illnesses can benefit. It offers fun with others while you practice skills to live life to the fullest and meet day-to-day challenges. At a Living Well Alaska workshop, you will learn the skills to set goals, problem solve understand and handle symptoms, eat well and be active, deal with difficult emotions and work with your health care team
The cost is only $10 for the entire six-week series. Registration is required. For more information and to register, please call the hospital’s education department at (907) 235-0258.
Root Causes of Hypothyroidism with Dr. Rob Downey–
Root Causes of Hypothyroidism with Dr. Rob DowneyYou might have thyroid issues and not even know it!
Join South Peninsula Hospital Functional Medicine Clinic at the Kachemak Bay Campus, Pioneer Hall (533 E Pioneer Ave) on Wednesday, January 30th from 6:00pm - 7:00pm.
In this free community education event, Director of the SPH Functional Medicine Clinic Rob Downey, MD, IFMCP discusses the factors that affect your thyroid function and lifestyle behaviors for optimal thyroid health.
Free and open to anyone!
Please contact the Functional Medicine Clinic at (907) 435-3070 for more information
