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  • Be Your Best U: Holy Cross Hospital committed to your wellness

    Taos Health - May 4, 2012

    Be Your Best U: Holy Cross Hospital committed to your wellness Holy Cross Hospital is committed to your health and the health of our community. Along with their great medical care, they also provide a variety of wellness programs designed to keep you healthy and improve your quality of life. Holy Cross…Read More >>

  • Taos Loves Kids

    Taos Health - April 16, 2012

    Add your own to our list, Taos Love Kids: 101 Ways We Show It!.  Look for the posts around town and on our Facebook Page. Read More >>

  • Senior Trek to Healthy Fitness

    Taos Health - April 13, 2012

    Senior Trek to Healthy Fitness is April 19, 2012 8:30-3:30 at the Sagebrush Inn Conference Center.  Sponsored by Holy Cross Hospital and New Mexico Senior Olympics, there will be health education and sports and activity workshops.  Everything from heart health to senior skin care, join other…Read More >>

  • What would you do with more wellness?

    Taos Health - March 17, 2012

    Questions to ask yourself: “What inspires you to be well? Who inspires you to be well, and what would you do with him or her if you had more wellness?” Wellness is a about making thoughtful choices to have a more satisfying life with healthy habits and meaningful activity all parts of our…Read More >>

  • Professionally-led Ongoing Cancer Support Groups

    Taos Health - March 16, 2012

    Professionally-led Ongoing Cancer Support Groups An ongoing weekly cancer support group begins Thursday, March 29th from 5:30 pm -6:30 pm at Team Builders office across the street from Guadalajara Grill. The support group is for everyone recently diagnosed with cancer, currently receiving treatment,…Read More >>

  • March is Colon Cancer Prevention Month

    Taos Health - February 19, 2012

    Get tested, reduce risk, remove polyps, and prevent colon cancer. Colon cancer is preventable with regular screenings. Everyone should be screened at age 50. March is national colorectal cancer awareness month. Surgeons at Taos Surgical Specialties offer guidelines and advice on how to prevent colon…Read More >>

  • Better-For-You Foods: It's Just Good Business

    Taos Health - February 18, 2012

    Food and beverage companies with a higher percentage of their sales coming from better-for-you foods and beverages perform better financially, according to a new report produced by the Hudson Institute with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The report analyzed the sales of 15 major food…Read More >>

  • 2011 For the Health of It! Wall of Honor

    Holy Cross Hospital - July 7, 2011

    The Wall of Honor celebrated, remembered and honored our friends, family and neighbors who have been affected by cancer. The full list of names from this year's Wall of Honor is below. Thanks to everyone who participated! Ernie Vargas Leslie Wiard Kenelm C. Winslow Anthony Shock Gloria Suazo Feeny…Read More >>

  • Wall of Honor: Elizabeth Gilmore

    Holy Cross Hospital - June 21, 2011

    Elizabeth Gilmore is currently suffering the ravages of an inoperable brain tumor. Her indominatable spirit and joy of life have kept her presence gracing those of us who love her for over 2 years, as she moves with grace through her illness. In case you haven’t heard, Elizabeth is responsible…Read More >>

  • Wall of Honor: Jan Smith

    Holy Cross Hospital - June 15, 2011

    An interview with Jan Smith, Holy Cross Hospital Auxilian and breast cancer survivor: When did you first learn that you had cancer? In February 2007, I went for a female exam with my nurse practitioner, and she very lovingly said to me, “Jan, your breasts don’t match.” And so the very…Read More >>

  • Wall of Honor: Jason Pfiefer

    Holy Cross Hospital - June 14, 2011

    Being diagnosed with testicular cancer at 30 years old was shocking. A young, healthy guy like me with cancer? Yep. There is nothing more difficult that I have experienced in life than being faced with the decisions and questions that came along with that cancer diagnosis. Decisions around where to…Read More >>

  • Wall of Honor: Teofila Trujillo

    Holy Cross Hospital - June 10, 2011

    Teófila Trujillo touched the hearts, minds and souls of many. A mother, friend, and outstanding community member, Teófila’s legacy lives on with her family, and with her contributions to bilingual education. She was recognized by the New Mexico Association for Bilingual Education…Read More >>

  • Are you turning 75 in 2011?

    Holy Cross Hospital - April 20, 2011

    Then we want to celebrate YOUR birthday! In 1936, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression. It was the year the Hoover Dam was completed and the Spanish Civil War began. It was the year Dr. Seuss wrote his first children’s book. And, 1936 was the year that Mabel Dodge Luhan donated…Read More >>

  • CDC Report Highlights Racial Disparities

    Holy Cross Hospital - January 17, 2011

    The New York Times: White people in the United States die of drug overdoses more often than other ethnic groups. Black people are hit proportionately harder by AIDS, strokes and heart disease. And American Indians are more likely to die in car crashes. See the full CDC Report here. Read More >>

  • Affordable Care Act Expands Coverage of Preventive Services

    Holy Cross Hospital - January 7, 2011

    This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Brief explores another provision of the Affordable Care Act -- one which reduces or eliminates consumer cost-sharing for preventive health services such as annual check-ups, mammograms, or medication to help you quit smoking. These changes affect private…Read More >>

  • Early Childhood Parenting Made Fun! Curriciulum

    Holy Cross Hospital - January 5, 2011

    Paso a Paso Network and Facilitators Katherine Chavez & Jeannie Driver (Independent facilitators of the Love and Logic Early Childhood Parenting Made Fun! curriculum) Present A five week parenting program designed by Love and Logic Answers to: o “How to handle disruptions during meal times?”…Read More >>

  • Key Healthcare Provisions Take Effect

    Holy Cross Hospital - January 1, 2011

    From The Hill's Healthcare Blog: Key healthcare provisions take effect Jan. 1, just as GOP moves into House By Jason Millman - 12/28/10 02:00 PM ET Key parts of the new healthcare law will go into effect on Jan. 1, just before a Republican-controlled House returns to Washington. The massive overhaul…Read More >>

  • Department of Health Releases State of the Health Report

    Holy Cross Hospital - December 22, 2010

    Report Highlight Decades of Health Trends   (Santa Fe) – A new report by the New Mexico Department of Health found that in the last decade rates for smoking, teenage births and uninsured adults have all decreased while injury deaths, obesity rates and hospitalizations related to suicide attempts…Read More >>

  • Medicare and Health Reform: What Does it Mean for You?

    Holy Cross Hospital - November 29, 2010

    We know that the new health reform laws are long, complicated, and politicized. The following bulletin from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services explains exactly what changes are going to affect you and your Medicare benefits, and when. Medicare and the New Health Care Law — What it…Read More >>

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    Holy Cross Hospital - November 24, 2010

    Please click "Get Involved" to join the mailing list for our monthly e-newsletter. The newsletter will include information on new and exciting developments at the Hospital, important health care related updates and bulletins, and ways to get involved in improving the health of our community.…Read More >>