Women's Health Center
24-hour Helpline
With the RN Resource Helpline, help is just a call away! The Helpline is available 24 hours day to answer your health care questions.
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About Women's Health Center
The Women’s Health Center provides you with compassion, care, education and a connection to resources to meet the needs of your whole family.
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Alcohol
A woman will experience more impairment from alcohol than a man of the
same size who drinks the same amount. Your blood alcohol content will
be one-third higher and it will take one-third longer for your body to
eliminate the alcohol from your body.
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Breast Health
When you hear about the incidence of breast cancer and its related
deaths, you also usually hear how important mammograms are in finding
cancers at the earliest stages. Indeed, it’s an important part of
detection, but another important detection method is often
overlooked—breast self-exam or “BSE.”
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Change Your Risk
While there are some risk factors you can’t control, such as a family history and menopause (after menopause, women lose protection of
estrogens), there are other issues you can control to either decrease your risk for heart disease or stroke.
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Coach provides life-saving service
October 21, 2005 was a typical fall day for the children at Meadow Ridge Elementary School in Mead, Washington. The air was chilly and the view of nearby Mount Spokane must have had students and teachers alike dreaming about picking apples and pumpkins at Green Bluff orchards.
For Elizabeth Fish, though, this day would be life changing. The administrative assistant who had worked for the Mead School District for 17 years would step aboard the Sacred Heart Women’s Health Center Coach for a mammogram … and later find out she had breast cancer.
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Enhancing Connections
Talking with kids about cancer
When a young boy heard his mother had breast cancer, he thought she’d be in a coma. Another child blamed Martians for his mom’s breast cancer. Even when the disease is caught early, kids often feel certain their mom will die.
Terrified and anxious, do they turn to the person so good at comforting them? Not usually.
Are you due for your mammogram?
Call the Sacred Heart Women’s Health Center,
(509) 474-2400, or click here to find out when
the Mammography Coach will be in your area.
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“They tell us they hide any sad or bad thought from their mother. They read her as very, very burdened, and they don’t want to add to Mommy’s burden,” says Fran Lewis, RN, PhD, a University of Washington researcher and social psychologist. (
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Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a condition of chronic fatigue and muscular pain. The
cause remains unknown, but it is thought to be triggered by infection,
injury, stress or sleep disturbance.
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Health Information
As you journey through life, you’ll encounter various health topics
you’ll want to understand better. Visit our health information pages
for answers to some of your questions.
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Heart Disease
Cardiovascular disease (of the heart or blood vessels) is the #1 cause of death in women.
In
fact, it kills more women than the next 16 causes of death combined. For more than 20 years, heart disease has killed nearly as many women as men.
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