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App Of The Week: Jetpack Joyride – For iPhone, iPod Touch And iPad – Video
Posted: March 10, 2012 at 8:50 am
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Hulk Hogan’s Wendy Williams Impersonation to Promote Health and Fitness | #ChallengeHulk – Video
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Hulk Hogan Sings Lady Gaga in Video to Promote Fitness | #ChallengeHulk – Video
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Parkland Health Center’s Twelve Days of Fitness winner
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For the seventh consecutive year, BJC HealthCare and Trek Bike Co. have teamed up to reward employees who make time for fitness during their hectic holiday schedules. BJC employees were given the opportunity to document their fitness efforts during the holiday season and then enter the contest. Winners of the Twelve Days of Fitness contest were recently announced. One winner from each of the BJC hospitals was chosen to receive a custom-fitted Trek bike.
Tracy McMillen, M(ASCP), was the winner from Parkland Health Center. Tracy has worked in microbiology in the lab at Parkland Health Center for five years. I was so surprised to hear that Id won, said Tracy. I love bicycling, and my husband and I have been running and biking for fitness, so a new bike is a great reward. Its such a great thing to do for your employees.
The Twelve Days of Fitness Contest is one of a number of initiatives administered by BJC HealthCares health literacy team.
Parkland Health Center is part of BJC HealthCare which also includes St. Louis Childrens Hospital and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, the teaching hospitals for Washington University School of Medicine. For additional information about Parkland Health Center, please call (573) 756-6451 or the physician finder service at (573) 431-3338 or visit http://www.parklandhealthcenter.org.
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Perkasie Parks Day to promote health and wellness
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By Erin DuBois Journal Register News Service
The parks and recreation board is envisioning a health and wellness day to be held at Kulp Park on Second Street June 17, with June 24 set as the rain date. Visitors can participate in best-of contests in various athletic endeavors such as running or slam-dunking a basketball. Space will be available for rent to local gyms, nutritionist, fitness and health food businesses to promote their services.
Its yet another event trying to foster more use out of our best-in-class park system, Perkasie Parks and Recreation Committee Chairman Rich Brummett said.
Perkasies parks are one of the main reasons Brummett moved to the borough in 2005, and he joined the park board almost immediately after arriving. Although Kulp Park has tennis and basketball courts and a baseball field, it is underutilized by residents who do not participate in those sports. Perkasie Parks Day will allow people to see what the park system has to offer them, according to Brummett.
Limited parking near Kulp Park doesnt have to pose a problem for the event.
At a health and wellness event, wouldnt it be great if people had to walk a half mile to get there? Councilwoman Florence Frei said.
While the event will start small, the park and recreation board has big dreams for its future. The board is looking to local businesses to support the event the first year through sponsorships and renting vendor space. After several successful years, the board may ask for up to $1,000 in borough funds to expand Perkasie Parks Day into an event that incorporates other parks in the borough.
Were not hurting for ideas, Brummett said.
Businesses interested in sponsoring the event, renting vendor space, or providing demonstrations should contact Parks and Recreation Director Joshua Aniskevich at 215-257-5064 or parkandrec@perkasieborough.org.
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Children's Hospital and city unite to boost health care in South Philly
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"Kids are generally healthier if their parents are healthier," said Donald F. Schwarz, deputy mayor for health and opportunity.
Schwarz said the idea came up in an unrelated conversation in the fall, when hospital officials asked if he knew of any property on South Broad Street to move their clinic, which now operates out of the former St. Agnes Hospital; the 30,000-patient practice is the fastest-growing of Children's 30 regional pediatric practices.
He did: The city's Health Center No. 2, near Morris Street just a few blocks away, was the second-busiest in the Philadelphia Department of Public Health's network of primary-care clinics. The roof leaked water, the original, 50-year-old windows leaked air, there weren't enough examination rooms, and the cost of renovations had been estimated at $7.2 million, just $3 million less than replacement.
And there might be possibilities for the outdated branch library and DiSilvestro playground on the same site.
"The possibility of integrating these three new facilities - health center, library, and rec center - would allow us to provide coordinated services that include much-needed health and wellness programming and literacy training," Nutter said in his prepared remarks to Council. "At the same time we will continue to expand the city's dental care, mammography, prenatal care, and a wide range of other children's and adult health-care services."
Under the conceptual agreement, the hospital will fully fund construction for a building that will house both clinics. The city will charge a nominal fee to lease the land.
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FITNESS TIPS FOR HALLOWEEN (Part 2) : Get Fit Friday #5 – Video
Posted: March 9, 2012 at 9:42 pm
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