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Elmore Walking Group celebrates 10th birthday

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Friday 23 December 2016
Written by Rod

The Elmore Walking Group celebrated its 10th birthday today with a four-kilometre stroll and morning tea.

The Bendigo Community Health Services supported group walked four-kilometres through the town and along the picturesque Campaspe River to mark the occasion.

Walking group founder and now Bendigo-based BCHS strength training facilitator Aileen O’Brien returned to lead the celebration walk.

BCHS CEO Kim Sykes congratulated the group before walkers Lesley Edmondston and Sam Dalton who have been with the group since the start cut a special 10th birthday cake.

Lesley said the social aspect of the group was what kept bringing people back each Tuesday and Thursday.

“It’s been wonderful for Elmore and wonderful for us to be part of it,” Lesley said.

“We’re all happy to do what anyone else is doing … we’re not in a continuous race. You walk to your pace. Some people go on, some people catch up and we get our exercise.

“We get our mouth exercise as well as our bodily exercise,” Lesley laughed.

Lesley said Healthy Lifestyles program facilitator Sandra Holmberg was ‘amazing’ in co-ordinating both the walking group and strength training.

“There’s so many different personalities and she never changes… she’s always happy, always upbeat. You can talk to her with a problem if you’re finding an exercise too hard and she doesn’t make you feel like a dill because you can’t do it. She’s very down to earth.”

Sandra agreed the social aspect was the secret to the group’s success.

“Initially, people come for the exercise because they have been told to or they feel they need to … they continue to come because it’s so social and it’s good fun,” Sandra said.

“They walk with different people every time and they have the opportunity to meet locals.

“I actually get quite a few new people to town and it’s a way of them meeting new people in town. The group that we have got is so good… we have a lady who used to run the antique shop so she knows things to do and places to go so she gives them advice. Other people are into their craft so they’ll talk about craft or cooking, so there’s never anyone bored with the walk because there’s always someone different to talk to and they talk about different things.”

Sandra said the strength training program at Elmore was convenient for residents.

“We have people recovering from hip replacements or knee replacements. They come rather than go to Bendigo to do their physio exercises… they’ll get the physio to send me the exercises which is more convenient for them rather than travelling.

“If they did the exercises in Bendigo and finished their program in Bendigo it would stop whereas here they do their program for their rehabilitation but they continue because it is an enjoyable place to be.”

Another popular aspect of the walking group is the famous yearly ‘bus trip’.

“We have the bus here that we take but we often have to take two vehicles because everyone wants to come,” Sandra said.

Congratulations to all involved in the Elmore Walking Group – happy birthday!

Father and daughter spoil staff with kindness and generosity

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Tuesday 13 December 2016
Written by Rod

John ‘Jack’ Healey and his daughter Glenda Brooker cooked up a plan to deliver one of the kindest gestures experienced by Bendigo Community Health Services staff in some time.

Jack’s daughter Glenda Brooker read a notice on a waiting room TV screen at our Eaglehawk site encouraging people to nominate staff providing excellent service for a Client Award.

Glenda was keen to have staff recognised given the support her father had received to maintain his health, wellbeing and mobility. There was just one problem … how could you nominate them all?

“Because my dad needed such a lot of care and he was constantly there, I felt like that we were part of the furniture and we just about knew every staff member by name there,’’ Glenda said.

"There are just too many wonderful people here at BCHS that take care of my father. I could never fill out a nomination for all of them.

“With all the attention that he’s had, not only there but at the Anne Caudle Centre as well, my father is now able to mow his lawns again and be so active again. It wasn’t like that a few months ago.”

So instead of filling out the nomination forms, Glenda and Jack put together a morning tea for the staff who care for them and the entire Eaglehawk site.

Team member and podiatrist Emma Millard said the staff involved in Jack’s care were delighted by the lovely gesture and recognition of the role they had played in keeping him as healthy and active as possible.

“Jack is a lovely gentleman who always provides a bit of humour and ‘cheek’ when he visits, and again we were very thankful for their kind thoughts,” Emma said.

Glenda who does a 160-kilometre round trip to help her father has also joined the BCHS Carers Wellbeing Program.

 

Fun day at Lansell Square puts women's health in the picture

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Monday 12 December 2016
Written by Rod

We put women's health in the picture with a fun day of information, prizes, health assessments and photographs at Lansell Square on Wednesday.

The event was in support of Jean Hailes Women's Health Week and raised awareness about important issues such as regular check ups, blood pressure and diabetes.

The day was attended by women of all ages.

Importantly, our staff carried out more than 50 health checks on the day, referring four people to their GP for high blood pressure and 15 to our Life! Program after a risk assessment for Type 2 diabetes.

Huge thanks to nursing students from La Trobe University, Victoria University and Monash University who helped with the event as part of their placement with BCHS.

Oh, we even had the pleasure of meeting Moose from Seeing Eye Dog Australia.

Our staff have a strong commitment to caring for women in Bendigo.

Our Women’s Health Clinic, medical practices and wide range of support programs are committed to allowing you to live life well!

The Women’s Health Clinic is staffed by a female general practitioner and nurses and has a focus on:

  • understanding puberty

  • common issues with periods

  • contraception options

  • fertility information

  • pregnancy tests

  • early pregnancy care and referral to maternity hospitals

  • unplanned pregnancy counselling and support

  • sexually transmissible infection risk assessment, testing and treatment

  • cervical cancer screening – pap tests

  • breast health and breast checks

  • bowel cancer screening

  • emotional and physical issues of menopause; assessment and testing and support

  • menopause

  • managing life as an older woman

  • women’s health education sessions

The clinic caters for all ages and you do not need a referral.

The Women’s Health Clinic runs from our Eaglehawk and Bendigo sites.

Choose the site nearest you and make an appointment by calling:

Bendigo 171 Hargreaves Street. Phone: 5448 1600. Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm There is no cost for the appointment. If you have an emergency, call 000 immediately.

Eaglehawk 3 Seymoure Street Phone: 5434 4300 Hours: Monday to Wednesday, 9am – 5pm If you have an emergency, call 000 immediately.

Our doctor and nurses can offer information and advice on a wide range of sexual health issues including contraception, sexually transmittable infections, blood borne virus, pregnancy testing and unplanned pregnancy support.

Your appointment is carried out in a confidential environment with our sexual health nurses and is protected by privacy laws.

Medical practice

We have general practitioners to cater for all your health needs at our medical practices at the Bendigo, Eaglehawk and Kangaroo Flat sites. To see one of our GPs, call your nearest site below and make an appointment:

Bendigo 171 Hargreaves Street. Phone: 5448 1600. Hours: 9am to 5pm. If you are facing an emergency, call 000.

Eaglehawk 3 Seymoure Street Phone: 5434 4300 Hours: 9am to 5pm. If you are facing an emergency, call 000.

Kangaroo Flat 13 Helm Street. Phone: 5430 0500 Hours: 9am to 5pm. If you are facing an emergency, call 000.

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