Published April 2004

Health & Wellness Briefs

Women’s wellness fair set for May 1
A daylong, free women’s wellness fair is set for May 1 at Everett Station. “Girls to Grandmothers: Everett’s Premier Women’s Wellness Festival” will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and include a fashion show, music, arts and crafts, and demonstrations of massage, reiki and self-defense, according to Kerri Mallams, director of Positive Women’s Network, one of the groups coordinating the event. Attendees also will have the opportunity to receive screenings for bone density, blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose levels.

Event sponsors include Providence Everett Medical Center, the Snohomish Health District and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Region X Office on Women’s Health. Staff from Providence and student nurses from Everett Community College will be on hand, Mallams said.

For more information on sponsorships, call Mallams at 425-259-9899.

EdCC allied health program
receives software donation
M2 Information Systems Inc. recently donated $150,000 worth of software to Edmonds Community College’s newest allied health education program.

The donation by the Edmonds-based company, which makes clinical information systems, will enable students of the college’s clinical lab assistant certificate program to gain experience ordering and receiving specimens in a systemized manner, EdCC said.

“It’s extremely beneficial that our students will be able to gain hands-on experience in a lab on software that is either identical or very close to what they will use in the workplace,” instructor Erika Ferreri said.

M2’s software is used at Stevens Hospital in Edmonds as well as at hospitals throughout the United States.

EdCC’s clinical lab assistant program, which began this spring, is the latest addition to the college’s allied health education training. Other certificate programs prepare students for work as patient-care, electrocardiography (EKG), pharmacy and phlebotomy technicians and in health information technology.

Latina Health Fair set for May 15
The Washington Health Foundation will hold its second annual Latina Health Fair 2004 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 15 at Seahawks Stadium & Exhibition Center, West Field Plaza, in Seattle.

The second annual event is free to attend and will include free medical exams, live music, food and free child care. For more information, call 800-756-5437.

Kidney dialysis center
under construction in north county
The Puget Sound Kidney Centers recently broke ground on a kidney dialysis center in north Snohomish County.

Construction on the center, to be located in the new Smokey Point Business Park in the Smokey Point neighborhood of Arlington, began in early February and is expected to be finished by January. It will have 18 stations and the capacity to serve 108 patients, according to the company.

Due to the county’s population growth and the increasing need for dialysis, Puget Sound Kidney Centers’ Everett location is at maximum capacity, with a waiting list for new admissions, said Harold Kelly, company president and chief executive. He noted that there were 109 patients living in the north-county service area.

Puget Sound Kidney Centers is an independent, nonprofit company, providing kidney dialysis services to patients in Snohomish and Island counties. Along with its Everett location, the company also operates a clinic in Mountlake Terrace.

The new clinic was designed by Botesch Nash & Hall Architects of Everett. The contractor for the project is Newland Construction, also of Everett.

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