This Month our meeting will be on Thursday November 8th from Noon to 2:30PM at FIRST COVENANT CHURCH, 2101 W 2nd Street, Duluth (218-722-5451) Bring a Sack Lunch – dessert/beverages will be provided.
Program : Kristy Lundberg RN from Essentia Health – Duluth Clinic, Rheumatology Dept will be our guest Presenter on “Update on Osteoporosis”
Guest: Yvonne from Lake Superior Medical Equipment will give us an update on the new service they provide and other helpful info on the services they provide.
DIRECTIONS
From South: Take Hwy 35N to the 21st Ave West Exit (Left lane). Then staying in the Right lane, circle around under the freeway – the Church will be on your LEFT.
From North: Take 53 into Duluth. Go past the Mall, and at Trinity Rd make a Right (follow signs to 35W) coming down Piedmont Ave – exit at the 21st Ave West ramp. The Church will be directly in front of you.
In Duluth: the church is on the corner of 21st Ave West and 2nd street, across from Mid-Town Manor in Lincoln Park.
PEER GROUP
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart. . . He will make your paths straight.” Proverbs3:5-6
Remember those in prayer on their birthday – What a wonderful gift
5 Julie Jagim 16 Gerry Paulson
6 Joan Rich 27 Anne Varda
30 Barb Poulter
Keep in your prayers:
- Pray for those that have this ministry on their hearts; to serve their faith community
- Thankful for funding we have received.
- Pray for wisdom in leading this health ministry in the coming new year.
RESOURCES:
Program Planning Helps: – – Just a Few suggestions, go to www.health.gov OR www.nationalwellness.org
November:
Bladder Health Month: www.urologyhealth.org
American Diabetes Month: askada@diabetes.org
Lung Cancer Awareness Month: www.lung.org
National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month: www.alz.org
National Family Caregivers Month: info@caregiveraction.org
National Hospice and Palliative Care Month: jradulovic@nhpco.org
November 16; Great American Smoke Out: www.cancer.org
November 17: International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day: survivingsuicideloss@afsp.org
December
Safe Toys and Celebrations Month: media@aao.org
December 1: World Aids Day www.worldaidsday.org/
December 2 -8: National Handwashing Awareness Week: www.henrythehand.org
January:
Influenza Vaccination Week: fluinbox@cdc.gov
Cervical Health Awareness Month: www.nccc-online.org
National Birth Defects Prevention Month: www.nbdpn.org/national_birth_defects_prevent.php
National Glaucoma Awareness Month: www.aaa.org/eysmart
Thyroid Awareness Month: www.thyroidawareness.com
Care Transition Program – –
I hope you have had a chance to listen-in on the conference calls; there has been some good tips and info. Our St Luke’s Contact is Amanda Klinghoffer RN- Discharge Advocate in the Discharge Planning office 249-5699. She has our Professional Listing. PHR forms are printed and available in the Case Manager office on 2W – (Just outside the 2W main doors).
Please take note of the Projects we have coming forward:
- Transitions Coach program still ongoing- – we have been keeping up with what is being done on a national level. Keep practicing on those in your congregation when discharged.
- We are in the middle of Northland Foundation’s Rural Aging Initiative Grant; focused on Advance Care Planning as well as Mental Health “Make it Okay”
- We recently were awarded the Operational Grant we requested from Essentia Health for $15,000.
Thank you for all your continued prayers for this Health Ministry.
Check out the REPORTS tab on our Website and LIKE our Facebook Page (see back page)
July through September Quarterly reports were due in October. Please send these in.
NEW CONNECTIONS:
To Lake Superior College Nursing Program – all the classes that Wendy Hunter RN, MSN teaches (4) – have now been introduced to Parish Nursing as another community role of Nursing If anyone of you would be available for a “shadowing experience” – please let me know, so I can direct them appropriately.
UPCOMING Events/Educational Opportunities:
October 26 – November 4: Conversation Sabbath (See information and “link” in the newsletter)
Nov. 6: Training on LGBT Elders in the Arrowhead 9am to 1pm, Register by 10/31 at www.trainingtoserve.org/arrowhead FREE and lunch will be included. Other classes will be offered around the Arrowhead.
Nov 8: WDSE – Channel 8 – “End in Mind” Panel discussion with Kathy Wurzer from Public Radio, Consider hosting a VIEWING PARTY that night to then host a discussion after the TV Presentation.
November 13, 14, 15 Spiritual Companion Series event sponsored by Essentia Hospice; You should have received a mailing: 11/13 will be held in Grand Rapids, MN, 11/14 held in Virginia, MN, 11/15 held in Duluth at St Mary’s Med Ctr Aud. FREE CEU event. SEE BELOW
Dec 5: Save the Date: Biomedical Ethics Conference, Genetic Testing 8am – 12Noon, St Luke’s Auditorium. Register at slhduluth.com/ethicsconference OR call Sarah Backstrom RN at 218-249-5139
December 6th: Joint Parish Nurse Christmas Party at Aces in Superior! 5pm Bring a White Elephant gift for the “Left-to -Right “Game.
Happy New Year!
January 10: First Meeting of the New Year!
April 8 -10 Westberg Symposium in Nashville TN – Registration is NOW OPEN!!
October 26 – November 4: CONVERSATION SABBATH
The Conversation Project is hosting Conversation Sabbath during this time frame- I have attached the 16-page booklet of guidelines for you share with your Pastor/Priest/Leaders. OR you can go to
www.theconversationproject.org/faith/ for more Information and Ideas on how to incorporate this in the life of your faith community.
November Spiritual Companion Series this year will be: Sacred Moments: Cultivating a Vital Resource for Caregiving (All locations will be 7:30 am to 11:30am) The Email address beside each location is where you can RSVP. This is FREE!! And CEU’s are available.
November 13: Spiritual Companions Series in Grand Rapids email: Donna.Helgeton@Essentiahealth.org
November 14: Spiritual Companions Series in Virginia: Mary.Vidmar-Billman@Essentiahealth.org
November 15: Spiritual Companion Series in Duluth; LuAnne.Anderson@Essentiahealth.org
This is certainly a good “Companion” piece to our past/future projects.
National Events:
International Westberg Symposium: April 8-10, 2019, Memphis, TN. EARLY REGISTRATION is NOW Open for discounted registration fee. The theme of the 2019 symposium is “In These Times: FCNs Serving Through Adversity.” The guest speaker will be Philip Yancey. Go to: https://westberginstitute.org/westberg-symposium-2019
OPEN ENROLLMENT for Mn sure. (Health Insurance)
The next open enrollment period will, in effect, only be two weeks shorter that previous open enrollments, running from 11/1/2018-1/13/2019
Our October Meeting Update
At our October meeting we had 2 great “links” to information and services! Sarah Garramone, from Lutheran Social Service of MN – shared about the services LSS have to offer and how to make referrals, etc. Her contact info is: 218-529-2280 Or Sarah.Garramone@lssmn.org Along with Sarah, she brought Melissa Grimmer and Lisa Beardsley both from St Paul to share about programs that offers specific “Companions” to Congregations. If you would like to learn more – give Sarah a call.
Jessie Peterson, MSW Marketing Manager at Lake Superior Community Health Center shared with us the resources and challenges they have for the patients they serve. The offer Integrated Care – where all the Health Care Providers work together to give quality care all under one-roof! They are in process of hiring more Dentists – but at the time of this presentation, it is a 2-year wait for basic care. If you would like to contact her: call 218-722-1497
Upcoming Foundations Classes – Preparation courses for Parish Nursing/Faith Community Nursing.
Elim Care Foundations for Faith Community Nursing: Taught by Shelly Rock RN, MSN
Next available online course: January 16-April 3, 2019. (40.5 CEUs and is $300) The APNA has funds available to assist those who would like to be trained. Go to www.grow2serve.com to learn more about the course offering and register.
Duluth Dementia Choir
Duluth is at work on becoming an Alzheimer’s Friendly community.
This is very timely with our Congregational Educational tool that you all have received (“Through the Wilderness”). Carlton has been going through this process since last year and now Duluth is in this process. God has certainly helped with our timing in this community need; For more resources on this process click on this LINK “Demetia Friendly Faith Community” at http://www.actonalz.org/community-resources
Here are some suggestions from the website on Being a Welcoming Faith Community:
- Always be respectful toward the person with Alzheimers
- Wear a nametag and greet the person warmly, using simple sentences and calm voice
- Be patient and accepting of the person’s behavior and appearance.
- Resond in supportive ways
- Help unite the person with family members if he or she appears to be disoriented or lost.
- Send “thinking of you” notes and cards; include worship bulletins and newsletters to help the family stay connected.
- Provide ongoing prayer support for the person with Alzheimer’s and family members.
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Have a Blessed Thanksgiving – – –
Maker of the Seasons, thank you for all that autumn teaches me. Change my focus so that I see not only what I am leaving behind, but also the harvest and the plentitude that my life holds. May my heart grow freer and my life more peaceful as I resonate with, and respond to, the many teachings this season offers to me.”
Joyce Rupp, “The Circle of Life”
As we gather with Family and Friends for the Thanksgiving Holiday Season – Let us also gather our thoughts of Thanksgiving and Gratitude to God in preparation for Advent.