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Everything you need to know about abdominal hernias

Hernias can happen anywhere on the body

By Jessica Reynolds, MD

Surgical Associates of Northwest Ohio

Blanchard Valley Health System

 

What is a hernia? 

Humor in the workplace

What we think determines how we feel

By Nancy Proctor, BSN, MAE
Patient Experience Manager & Educator
Blanchard Valley Health System

Every business knows how integral a core set of values is to driving behavior that results in exceptional product and service quality.

However, most haven’t really considered how a value of humor in the workplace facilitates success. When you can laugh and have fun at work it carves the path to mutual purpose and mutual respect. Humor also facilitates the physiology that supports optimal health, keeping your workforce present and accounted for.

Meet the newborns at Bluffton Hospital

Here are births reported from Bluffton Hospital from mid-June to July 6.

Bridge Bereavement Services offering grief trails program

Bridge Bereavement Services is offering area youth an opportunity to work through grief by spending time with horses. Grief Trails allows children, ages six through 12 years old, to learn through horses about the importance of communicating emotions and needs to others.

Grief Trails will be held Tuesday, June 26 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Challenged Champions Equestrian Center, 11913 County Road 6, Ottawa.

Cosmetic & Facial Plastics

“Live and Learn” lunch presentation

Dr. Vincent McGinniss, an experienced cosmetic and facial plastics surgeon at the Facial Plastic Surgery Center of Northwest Ohio, a division of Blanchard Valley Health System, will be hosting a “Live and Learn” lunch presentation on Thursday, June 26, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Marathon Auditorium at Blanchard Valley Hospital.

The topic is “Cosmetic & Facial Plastics” and attendees will learn about the options and benefits of aesthetic procedures. A question and answer session will follow the presentation.

Bridge Home Health & Hospice offers volunteer training courses

Bridge Home Health & Hospice, a nonprofit organization providing home health care and hospice services, will offer training courses for prospective volunteers beginning on Thursday, June 14.

The training will be held in the Hub Conference Room at Birchaven Village, 15100 Birchaven Lane, Findlay, and will take place for six consecutive Thursdays from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

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