MedStar Series: Living Well with Chronic Conditions
MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital is hosting a six-week-long Living Well series on self-management of chronic conditions. The workshops will be held at three different locations.
One workshop will be held from 1:30 to 4 pm starting Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, at the Loffler Senior Activity Center.
A second workshop will be held from 12:30 to 3 pm starting Monday, Oct. 17, at the Northern Senior Activity Center.
For more information or to register for either of these workshops, call 301-475-4200, ext. 1063.
A third workshop will be held from 6 to 8:30 pm starting Monday, Sept. 19, at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital Health Connections.
For more information or to register for the workshop beginning Sept. 19, call 301-475-6019.
Learn to manage your symptoms and live your life your way.
Do you have chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, cardiovascular disease, or diabetes that are difficult for you to manage?
The Living Well Self Management Workshop, a Stanford University program, can help you take charge of your life again. The six-week workshop will teach you many different tools to help you manage long-term conditions impacting your daily living.
Topics covered will include nutrition, dealing with pain and fatigue, medication usage, communicating with physicians, physical activity, self-management skills, distractions techniques, and many more topics.
MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital supports the Healthy St. Mary’s Partnership.
MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital is a full-service community hospital, delivering state-of-the-art emergency, acute inpatient and outpatient care in Leonardtown. Nestled in a waterside community, MedStar St. Mary’s provides advanced technology with a dedication to excellence in all services provided. The not-for-profit hospital has been named among the nation’s Top 100 Hospitals and is an eight time recipient of the prestigious Delmarva Medicare Excellence Award. In addition, MSMH received the Maryland Performance Excellence award at the Platinum level in 2014 – the highest in the state. The staff is committed to providing quality and compassionate medical care for all patients by coupling innovation with an outstanding team of medical staff members, associates, and volunteers.
For more information and one-click access to a full list of resources available at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital, visit their Leader member page.
