The health care system can be essential to maintaining wellness. It can also be frustratingly complex. When people seek to get value from the system, it helps to have a friend in their corner. Crystal Hines-Mays That’s where primary care physicians come in. Think of them as professional friends in[Read More…]
Tag: Health & Wellness 2022
Health & Wellness 2022: Occupational therapists help return patients to daily routines
Editor’s note: This story is the seventh in a series originally published in the Chronicle’s April 1 print edition, part of the annual Health & Wellness supplement sponsored by Franciscan Health. Allen Davenport originally was skeptical about occupational therapy, but he said he saw its benefits after just two sessions[Read More…]
Health & Wellness 2022: Getting patients proper resources is the role of social workers
Christine Annang, manager of social work at Franciscan Health in Olympia Fields, calls her staff Sherlock Holmes, after the famed literary sleuth known for his deductive reasoning prowess, because she says they “do a little investigating to get the right resources to the patients.” Editor’s note: This story is the[Read More…]
Health & Wellness 2022: ‘My heart was broken by COVID’
As she continued working as an MRI technologist during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rose Wiley said the job became lonely and politically fraught, with patients refusing to wear masks and even spitting at her. (Carole Sharwarko/H-F Chronicle)