Good Health - January 2011

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GOOD HEALTH — HERALD COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS — January 20, 2011

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New Year's Day has long been a time for reflection on the personal changes we want to make as we look forward to a happy new year. Health-related goals are popular New Year's resolutions, but sticking to those New Year's resolutions can be tough, especially if you've put major lifestyle changes like quitting smoking, getting more exercise, or eating better on your list.

A lot of us start out strong on our new healthy path, then lose steam after the first few weeks.

No matter what your goal, make this year the one in which you stay on track.

Make your goal specific. It's all too easy to blow off a vague plan, like "getting more exercise" or "eating better." Instead, resolve to walk 30 minutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, or eat a piece of fresh fruit every night after dinner.

Avoid temptation. Stay out of smoky bars if you're trying to quit smoking, and skip the all-you-can-eat buffet if you're trying to lose weight. You'll be less likely to slip up if you don't have the opportunity.

Focus on the immediate benefits.

Don't get discouraged because you still crave a cigarette or can't fit into your skinny jeans yet.

Think about the positive changes you can already notice – your clothes are no longer smelling like smoke, or your new diet and exercise routine is giving you more energy.

Accentuate the positive.

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Start the new year by losing 30 pounds in 30 days

By Alana Bell The holidays have come and gone, and while this is most people’s favorite time of year; it’s often not the best for your waistline. Gatherings with friends and family usually center around food and by the time the holiday lights come down our weight has gone up, sometimes…way up. Many of us have made, and possibly already broken, our New Year’s resolutions. The energy and optimism of the January 1st starting line is losing its sparkle and promise and the finish line can seem totally unrealistic.

The number one resolution among Americans is weight loss. Starting the New Year with healthier eating habits and positive lifestyle changes can seem daunting, and without the proper tools and guidance many of us will fall back into the same old routine within weeks or even days of starting.

‘We live in a results driven and instant gratification society; if something doesn’t work quickly, people give up, and your health is something too important to give up on. I wanted to show people that they really can make changes in their health and it doesn’t take forever to do it.’

DR. BO ROSENBLAT Chief Physician, Dr. Bo's Diet “Last year at this time I was overweight and unhealthy,” said Steven Newman a father of three. “I couldn’t keep up with my kids. I didn’t feel comfortable doing all the things I used to. I didn’t want to be the fat dad any more. I wanted to look better and feel better, I just didn’t know how.” Like most people, Steven simply lacked the proper tools and guidance to make weight loss a reality. “I didn’t really know where to begin,” he said. “It felt really overwhelming. As a man especially, we don’t generally like asking for help.”

Everything changed when Steve ran into a friend from the neighborhood. “I couldn’t believe how much weight he had lost. I had seen him only weeks earlier at my kids’ school and he looked like a completely different person.”

Steve’s friend had just completed the Dr. Bo’s Diet, a program that averages results of 30 pounds or more in about 30 days.

Dr. Bo’s Diet was created by Dr. Bo Rosenblat, a board certified physician, who started the plan to help his own patients get back to a healthier state. “I saw so many patients coming into my E.R. with heart attacks, strokes, and complications from diabetes all because they were overweight. People think that it’s not going

to happen to them, that they aren’t going to get sick, but I see this all the time.”

Dr. Bo, as many patients call him, decided that the best way to keep his patients out of the Emergency Room was to get to the root of the problem and resolve their weight issues before they resulted in complications.

Using his medical knowledge he created the “Dr. Bo’s Diet,” and the results have been astounding. “I knew I needed to find something that worked fast,” added Rosenblat. “We live in a results driven and instant gratification society; if something doesn’t work quickly, people give up, and your health is something too important to give up on. I wanted to show people that they really can make changes in their health and it doesn’t take forever to do it.”

Dr. Bo started with one location in Pembroke Pines, Fla. and within the first year had four more in the surrounding Florida areas. His brother, Dr. Yoav Rosenblat, a physician in New York, knew his brother was onto something big. “I saw the success people were having on this program. People were losing 20, 30, 40 pounds in a month. Many of his patients came off of their hypertension and diabetes medications.

Patients completely turned their health around and I wanted to contribute toward that effort.”

Wanting to see the results firsthand, Dr. Y. Rosenblat tried the plan with a few of his patients and the word spread like wildfire.

Dr. Bo’s Diet soon launched in Manhattan and Hewlett, then more locations came to Brooklyn and Queens.

“I didn’t even originally intend to open a Dr. Bo’s Diet Center at that time,” said Dr. Rosenblat. “I thought I would take it slow but after those first few patients tried the plan with such success, I was inundated with calls from their friends and family wanting to try the program for themselves. After that it was a snowball effect.”

Most of Dr. Bo’s patients come to through word of mouth and patient referrals. “People see their family, friends and co-workers having such rapid weight loss that they have to ask about it,” said Dr. Rosenblat. “There is so much positive energy among the patients. People tell everyone they know about the plan.”

One key element to the diet is a low-dosage medication that allows people to target fat instead of muscle. Dr. Bo explained that, “while on the medication your body yields energy at a rate of 3500 calories per pound of fat burned. In other words, you’re burning so much of your own fat that you’re able to eat less and not be hungry.”

The success of Dr. Bo’s Diet seems to be in large part due to the speed in which people lose weight on the plan. “When you want the weight off, you want it off right away,” said Steve. “I had tried other plans and lost two pounds in two weeks, and those two weeks felt like torture. At least if you’re working hard and depriving yourself you want to see those results on the scale.

It was really discouraging.” Dr. Bo echoed the same sentiment adding, “Many of my patients had tried to get motivated about weight loss in the past but would give up a couple of weeks in because they didn’t see the results quickly enough.”

An important component to Dr. Bo was creating a program that included eating real food. “I didn’t want to give my patients powders and shakes or bars and supplements. That doesn’t

A PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION: The ‘old’ Steve Newman (left) has become changed man as a result of his 40 pound weight loss. teach people portion control and healthy eating.

That’s setting them up for failure as soon as the diet ends.” Most of Dr. Bo’s patients have kept the weight off seeing long-lasting results.

Steve Newman has become a self proclaimed Dr. Bo’s poster child. He lost 40 pounds in 30 days and has kept it off for a year. “I look back to last New Year’s and I can’t believe how far I’ve come.The weight loss completely changed everything about me; the way I eat, the way I feel and especially the way I look.”

No longer a fat Dad, Steve says the diet gave him the jumpstart he needed to not only change his lifestyle, but to be a better example for his children. “I wanted my kids to be active and eat healthy, but it was a ‘do as I say, not as I do’ kind of thing. How could I really enforce that if I wasn’t doing it myself?” Steve says the weight loss transformed his whole family. “We do things together now. My whole attitude has changed and my wife and kids have taken notice. At the end of the day all I wanted was to be happy and healthy and that’s what I got.”

Alana Bell, Esq., is an attorney and stay-at-home mom. She writes a lifestyle blog at www.alanabell.com.

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GOOD HEALTH — HERALD COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS — January 20, 2011

Stop playing the weighting game

Herbs for life

Spice up your health in 2011 Many of us will make the resolution to eat healthier this year, adding more fruits and vegetables, and less salt and fat, to our diet.

But if you really want to spice up health – and those healthy foods – try adding a dash of basil and oregano, or a few cloves of garlic to your diet too.

Using more herbs and spices and fewer traditional seasonings like sugar, salt and fat, can help to improve the overall health benefits – and flavor – of the foods we eat every day, says Suzanna Zick, N.D., M.P.H., a naturopathic physician and researcher.

“Adding herbs and spices can help you maintain a healthy weight. Plus, they can help prevent certain cancers, and even lower blood pressure, control blood sugar and improve cardiovascular health.”

To help add a dash of “spice” to your life, Zick offers these tips for picking the best spices for your overall health.

Instead of salt, use herbs. Common herbs like oregano, thyme, rosemary, parsley and garlic can really bring out the natural flavors in a meal.

Zick recommends replacing salt with a tasty combination of basil and oregano on food.

Use fresh garlic for maximum benefit.

Garlic appears to help to lower blood pressure and cholesterol. “For maximum benefit, you need to have about three medium cloves of garlic per day. Dry garlic or garlic left out too long, lose their healthy benefits,” says Zick.

Fight aging: Eat rosemary. Rosemary is one of nature’s most powerful antioxidants, says Zick. It’s also thought to help with memory, and research is currently underway to determine rosemary’s potential cancer-prevention properties.

Basil, oregano and rosemary can help fight colds. Since these three herbs contain strong essential oils, Zick says they potentially can fight against colds and flu.

“All three are powerful antioxidants as well,” she notes.

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Got back pain? Eat curry. Research has shown that the substance commonly found in turmeric – a common, bright red spice added to curry mixes – has known antiinflammatory properties. The substance, curcumin, works in a very similar way to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, Zick says.

Fight cancer: Eat more curry. In addition to its anti-inflammatory properties, research on curcumin has also shown it to shrink pre-cancerous lesions known as colon polyps.

Zick says the amount needed for its health benefits is unclear, she suggests including a generous helping of curry or turmeric in a meal.

Lower your blood pressure with “warming spices.” These include ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, pepper, cayenne pepper and others. These can make a person feel warm because they bring blood from the center of the body to the skin. This disperses blood throughout the body more evenly, which may decrease blood pressure, according to Zick.

Soothe your aching tummy with ginger. Ginger contains gingerols, which decrease oxidative products in the digestive tract that cause nausea. The key is to eat real ginger and not things flavored artificially like many ginger-ales, in order to reap the benefits, Zick says.

Reduce the sugar, add the spice. If you need to cut back on sugar, Zick suggests adding spices like cinnamon and nutmeg to your sweet snacks instead of sugar. For instance, if you buy unsweetened applesauce, add cinnamon to give it an extra kick.

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Reading food labels

GOOD HEALTH — HERALD COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS — January 20, 2011

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When it comes to carbohydrates, the listings on packages and labels are often misleading because there are no breakdowns, Villacorta says. “Fiber and sugar are carbohydrates, but most manufacturers don’t list them in the carbohydrate total.”

Calabrese recommends avoiding foods that say they are enriched or fortified because they are typically very low in nutritional value. She suggests looking for high sources of fiber, i.e., foods with 16 or more grams per serving.

Another important thing is to read the servings per container, which enables a person to calculate how much of the package he or she should consume. It is a common mistake to overlook this when reading labels, says Villacorta. “Someone might read a label on a sugary drink that says 300 calories and 15 grams of sugar per serving. That doesn’t sound too bad, except the bottle contains three servings and the person thinks it is just one serving.

This is a common mistake because most people don’t know sizes or how much 8 ounces is. They will drink the whole bottle and think that is the whole serving,” he says.

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If you are what you eat, then it’s probably a good idea to read food labels.

Americans have become more health-conscious, with many people reducing their caloric intake in order to lose weight and monitoring the use of certain ingredients, such as salt, because of medical conditions. They also are looking for ways to make better food choices and to develop healthier eating habits.

One of the best ways to start, according to experts, is by reading food labels, which often contain surprises. What appears to be a healthy food may actually be anything but.

The first thing is not to be fooled by what is on the front of the package, says Manuel Villacorta, a registered dietitian and national media spokesman for the American Dietetic Association. “For example, you can pick up a multi-grain bar and see that it says it contains ‘more whole grain’ on the front, but when you look at the list of ingredients on the back, you’ll see it’s high in fructose,” he says. “You need to be an Inspector Gadget and read the fine print.”

Personal trainer Kelli Calabrese concurs. “Read the food label rather than the claims on the front of the package, which can be deceptive with pictures or words,” she says.

Though she stresses the importance of reading food labels, Calabrese points out that most of the food the average person buys should be fresh — such as fish, fruits and vegetables — and not packages with labels. “Fresh food is always best. Frozen (food is) second-best, and canned (food is) last,” she says.

Ingredients on labels are listed from the largest to the smallest in quantity. Special attention should be paid to the first one listed.

“If the first ingredient is sugar, the whole thing is likely to be mainly sugar,” Villacorta says.

Calabrese believes that the fewer ingredients there are the better. “Be sure you recognize and can pronounce and identify all ingredients. If it sounds foreign to you, it should not be in your body,” she says.

She believes it is useful to identify all of the potential names for sugar, which include sucrose, molasses, corn syrup, cocoa, inulin, maltitol, and maltose.

When it comes to fats, it is important to be aware that they are not all created equal, points out Villacorta. “Look to pick products with polymers and monomers, which are heart-healthy. Watch the saturated fats,” he says. “Trans fats are a problem. ...

Think twice before eating them.”

It is also important to remember that the human body needs such ingredients as sodium. “No one is asking people to go totally salt-free, because sodium is needed for electrolytes and for the heart,” Villacorta says. He adds that the sodium content might be 150 milligrams in a snack, between 400 and 500 milligrams in a frozen meal, and 1,000 or more milligrams in just one

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Out With The Old, In With The New

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cise habits such as shedding extra pounds, lowering your cholesterol or feeling more energetic.

Expect some setbacks. It's natural to stumble now and then on the path to reaching your goals. Instead of beating yourself up, view setbacks as learning tools.

Use them to figure out what didn't work and what to do differently in the future.

Brush yourself off and get right back on track.

Traditionally, the No. 1 resolution for most people is to lose weight. We start off with great intentions, but after a month or two revert back to old habits and that newly purchased treadmill often becomes an expensive clothing rack.

Jill Graybill, a registered dietitian with Spectrum Health Healthier Communities, offers five important tips to consider before finalizing your weight loss goals this year.

1. Think first.

The biggest step to meeting goals like weight loss, and the one most often forgotten, is to do your

thinking homework. Figure out why you want to set this goal, all the steps it will take to achieve it, what it will look like once you do and, if you have set the goal before, what kept you from meeting it. This step is critical to success. Most people set halfhearted weight loss goals, assuming eventual failure rather than success.

2. Don't set a weight loss goal that you are unwilling to keep for the rest of your life.

Many people will try completely cutting out junk foods and and they fall back to old habits once they have reached their weightloss goal by indulging even more in the foods they have missed. This is why most frustrated dieters end up gaining weight from year to year.

3. Establish support by telling others about your goal.

Telling your friends, family and co-workers about your weight loss resolution will keep you accountable. Their positive support and encouragement is critical to keeping you on track, as the novelty of a new resolution wears off.

4. Learn to enjoy food again!

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Healthy Lifestyle Tips To Stick With Make this year the one in which you make good on your New Year’s resolutions. Try taking small steps to make positive changes, one goal at a time. Here are some ways to get started.

Fitness ■ Try a new fitness pursuit like cross country skiing, snow shoeing, or ice skating.

■ Exercise with a partner, two or three times per week, walk, jog, skate, ski, etc.

■ Sign up for some personal training sessions to start the new year.

■ Visit sporting goods stores for after-holiday bargains.

■ Use the stairs instead of elevators or park at the far end of the parking lot if possible.

■ Breathe. Take full abdominal breaths several times during the day.

Nutrition ■ Write a simple nutrition resolution to which you can commit.

■ Plan a healthy lineup of snacks for watching bowl games.

■ Make a strategy for limiting your food and alcohol intake at holiday parties.

■ Leave newspapers, books, and cell phones aside and eat while you eat.

■ Try not to eat late at night, leaving a minimum of two hours before sleeping.

■ Enjoy many types of foods, but in moderation.

Stress Management ■ Block out an hour each week to relax.

Keep your life simple by organizing a messy room, garage, or basement.

■ Buy or check out a book on progressive relaxatio n.

■ Play with a pet.

■ Get a massage.

■ Turn off the TV and listen to music.

■ Control your schedule and make time for reflection and relaxation.

Social Health ■ Volunteer at a shelter.

■ Invite a neighbor that lives alone to dinner.

■ Remember to play — play games, play with words, play with your children.

■ Plan comedy nights with family and friends.

■ Join or establish a group that reviews books or goes for trips together, or form a group based on your own theme.

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Energy express Clearing your space is one of the best resolutions you can make

By Marilynn Preston Anyone can make New Year’s resolutions: Lay off the chips. Get to the gym three times a week.

Stop after one glass. Start yoga.

Proclaiming your best intentions is a piece of cake. But what about sticking to those healthier habits? Seeing real change happen in the coming year?

‘Being fully with what is happening right now is living in the flow itself . . . living this way ensures that we will not break but will bend like the graceful willow as inevitable change occurs.’

SWAMI MA Uhh . . . that’s a much trickier problem. I’ve had cheeses that last longer than most yearend promises. What’s the average survival rate? A month? A weekend? That’s because change isn’t easy. If it were, we’d all be living balanced, sane, enlightened lives instead of feeling frantic and frustrated about never having enough time to do what we want to do, to be who we wish we could be (too often someone who weighs 10 pounds less).

There’s an old saying, I forget who said, it but here’s the gist of it: A fool is someone who does the same thing over and over again and expects a different result.

I’m not calling anyone a fool – that would be a very naughty way to begin

the new year -– but I am saying that if you have failed time and again to make your New Year’s resolutions last, then maybe it’s time to take a completely new approach.

Write down your goals? Make them small and achievable? Keep a journal of your progress?

Great ideas, but I’ve been recommending them for 30 years. And no one’s accusing me of being perfect.

If you want a different result, you have to take a different path. So this year, before you stand naked in front of the Great Mirror of Lifestyle Change and ask yourself: Who am I, why am I here, how can I be healthier and happier, I want you to try something a little wacky-sounding.

I want you to “clear the space.” According to the time-honored principles of feng shui – much ridiculed, yet highly respected – energetic clutter in your home and in your workspace can be a real block to change. The same is true of your mind. If you want to stop after one glass of wine, or take a deep breath when airport security decides to ransack your carry-on, then you have to clear the space, both physical and mental.

Christan Hummel is a pro at this. Here are a few of her best ideas, taken from her book “The Do-It-Yourself Space Clearing Kit: Working with Nature to Enhance the Energies of your Home” ($28, One Source Publications). I know it seems a little hocusy-pocusy. So does the iPhone.

Give it a try: 1. Respect your space. Energy follows thought, said Hummel. So don’t bring bad energy into your home. Take off your shoes and leave them at the front door as a way to consciously let go of your worries of the day. Eastern philosophers have been teaching this for about a million years.

2. Clean out bad energy. It’s a subtle thing, but it just feels better to be in a space that is orderly and organized. So this year, take Hummel’s advice and clean up your personal space, physically and energetically, using sage, smudging and sacred sounds. Sage?

Smudging? Sacred sounds?

Yep, space clearing goes way beyond Spic And Span.

3. Practice letting go. To make room for the new, you need to let go of the old on a deeply personal level. To mark the

CLEAR YOUR HEAD AND THEN YOUR SPACE: Start the year fresh by writing down your goals and then take the steps to achieve them. beginning of the rest of your life, take a ceremonial bath, meditate or simply light a candle to symbolically burn up your old worries, your sedentary habits, your anger and jealousy.

tional release work.” That’s when you privately honor, love and appreciate the item (and the person who gave it to you) just before kissing it goodbye.

4. Get rid of stuff. Your home has a circulation system, said Hummel, and when you’ve got too many possessions gunking it up, the energy you need to make change can’t flow. Make decisions!

Recycle, give, or throw stuff away. Practice “emo-

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Controlling stress Resolve to achieve a stress-free new year Overwhelmed by stress? According to behavioral health specialists at South Nassau Communities Hospital’s Counseling Center, stress can be a motivator, resulting in an exciting new perspective or it can produce harmful feelings that can lead to health problems.

To manage stress so that it inspires instead of depresses, consider these factors: ■ Identify sources of stress.

■ Recognize what you can change and what you can’t.

■ Reduce the intensity of your emotional response by putting things into perspective.

■ Avoid the dangers of “shoulds,” “oughts,” and “musts.”

■ Moderate your physical reactions to stress through slow, deep breathing, and relaxation.

■ Build your physical reserves through exercise and well-balanced meals.

Controlling stress this year will put the fun back in life and contribute to better health.

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How To Deal With The “Who” You Are keeps us focused or sabotages This is the time of year our best efforts for success? when we all make promisWe spend so much time thinkes to “improve ourselves” ing about what we are eating and get rid of the bad haband why we are eating that its that have taken over ultimately, we feel so guilty our lives and driven us to when we put that first bite in this point of desperation. our mouth. Immediately we We’re going to start the get so miserable and unhapNew Year with a fresh attipy that we spend more time tude and regretting what we ate than outlook. the time it took to eat it!

But why do we always What a waste of time! have the same resolutions If you imagine your first each year? And why can’t INDA “bite” in slow motion, it startour new motivated energy ed with a thought of the food last throughout the year IVESON not the actual bite. Were you without falling apart? stressed? Did you see or Psychologically, having smell some of your favorite foods? a “formal” start date (like January 1) Regardless, it’s the thought that starts helps us get ready to prepare ourselves the process even before you have eaten for the task we are about to undergo. It the food. Your mind is imagining with also gives us time to “overindulge” glorious anticipation how you “have to” before we take those vows of abstinence. pop that wonderful food into your mouth.

It’s the same as starting on Monday. The Next, your imagination starts the salivaweekend becomes your last chance to tion process, and of course, your brain is have your last “food fling!” rallying, promising “this will be the last Why do you think we are repeat time.” Now, it’s time for the negotiating offenders? What is that mechanism in process. the brain that clicks on and off and

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Isn’t this a lot of work? It’s chaos at its best!

Your mind becomes obsessed and somehow the thoughts of eating become so overwhelming and powerful, you

‘We spend so much time thinking about what we are eating and why we are eating that ultimately, we feel so guilty when we put that first bite in our mouth.

HAVE to give in to that “bite” in order to stop the obsessive thinking.

The WHO you are mechanism in your brain is very hard to change. If you have always had this compulsive eating problem, chances are you always will. If you just plan and stock up on some of your favorite healthy foods, you will be prepared for your next hunger attack.

The WHO you are is like the hard drive of a computer. You can’t change or access what’s not accessible. That’s why eaters eat! When we can’t deal with situations we can’t control, we go to what we can control and what is familiar….eating. We feel the urge and need to eat and if we’re prepared with the “right foods” we can eat! And it’s not about hunger; it’s about taking a “time out” break – and it sure does work!

The HOW part of this is to accept that eating is what we do and understand that overeaters DO NOT HAVE TO BE OVERWEIGHT! Now… if you feel the need to eat (reasonably or not) you can – just eat the right food! This way you’ll have the “best of both worlds and bodies” – thin and happy with no chaotic thinking to consume your mind all day long!

Linda Fiveson is a nutritionist in Syosset. In addition to counseling she sells her own line of foods which are free of flour, gluten, sugar and preservatives. For more information, call 516-496-2300 or visit www.lindafiveson.com.

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The study comprised 245 women and 47 men who underwent the surgery between October 2006 and December 2009.

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GUESS WHO MADE THE GRADE. Which hospital on Long Island achieved the HealthGrades® Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence for 2009 and 2010?

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Which hospital did HealthGrades® single out as #1 in New York State for General Surgery and #1 in New York State for GI Surgery for 2010?

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Which hospital received the most recent* HealthGrades® Excellence Award for Vascular Surgery, Maternity Care and Women’s Health?

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Which hospital was ranked by HealthGrades® in the Top 5% in the Nation in 2010 for Overall Cardiac Services, Cardiology Services and for Angioplasty and Stent Procedures?

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