York Hospital offers webinar on hip and knee pain: Seacoast health news

York Hospital and Mako SmartRobotics to offer webinar on hip and knee pain Feb. 23

YORK, Maine – Is hip or knee pain is keeping you from the activities you love? Then here’s an event you won’t want to miss. On Wednesday, Feb. 23, from 5 to 5:45 p.m., York Hospital and Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine will host a webinar, “Let’s Talk Mako SmartRobotics,” with Michael Morwood, MD.

Morwood, orthopaedic surgeon at Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sport Medicine, will discuss underlying reasons and possible treatment options for hip and knee joint pain. His talk will include arthritis and joint degeneration, location or frequency of joint pain, and discussion of medication and conservative treatment. Additionally, if you haven’t experienced adequate relief with those treatments, you may be a candidate for Mako SmartRobotics total knee, total hip or partial knee replacement. Morwood will explain this personalized surgical experience, known for better patient outcomes, a shorter hospital stay, quicker recovery and less pain in the weeks following surgery, and how it may work for you.

Morwood is a fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon, specializing in joint replacement and orthopaedic trauma at Atlantic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in York and Portsmouth. Following medical school, he completed a fellowship at the Florida Orthopaedic Trauma Institute in Tampa, Florida, and an adult reconstruction/replacement fellowship at the Aaron Hofmann Arthritis Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah.

To reserve your spot, visit yorkhospital.com/events.

Stacy Dionne from Lamprey Health Care in Raymond named N.H. Healthcare Hero

RAYMOND - During the last few years, those working in the healthcare community under extraordinary and unimaginable circumstances have gone above and beyond the call of duty to make sure New Hampshire’s healthcare system works and that Granite State residents are safe and well-cared for. Stacy Dionne, Clinical Nurse Manager at Lamprey Health Care in Raymond, was named a N.H. Healthcare Hero and recently honored during a pinning ceremony for showing courage and exemplifying what it means to be a superhero.

For its second year, the N.H. Healthcare Heroes effort is honored to recognize the dedication, courage and commitment of several individuals in the state’s healthcare community. Seven healthcare heroes were recently selected from across the state through nominations submitted by colleagues, family, friends and patients and represent the second group of individuals honored through this program.

“We continue to see how critical the healthcare workforce is to New Hampshire,” said Roxie Severance, healthcare sector advisor for the New Hampshire Sector Partnerships Initiative.“It takes a full community of professionals – from nurses and Licensed Nursing Assistants to cooks, maintenance technicians and dentists – to run our healthcare system. We’re excited to honor each of them and share their unique stories, so they serve as inspiration to those in or considering a healthcare career.”

Here’s what Dionne's nominator said about her: “Stacy has dedicated herself to being on the front lines during this pandemic. She has volunteered countless hours to work on the Mobile Health Unit providing COVID vaccines/testing to community populations across the state, worked late night, early mornings and weekends to ensure her staff is supported at all times… Despite how heavy the day is, she works diligently to keep up staff morale and handles daily struggles with limitless compassion. It is an honor and privilege to serve alongside her."

In 2020, the healthcare sector team at SPI developed the N.H. Healthcare Heroes effort to shine a light on the essential roles and opportunities to help others by working in the healthcare field. SPI is a collaborative, industry-led program that provides funding, training expertise and other resources to help companies within a growing industry sector collaborate on workforce development needs together.

The N.H. Healthcare Heroes effort is sponsored in part by the N.H. Bureau of Economic Affairs through a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor and through the support of our generous sponsors, which include the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, the New Hampshire Health Care Association, the New Hampshire Sector Partnership Initiative, North Country Healthcare, Northeast Delta Dental, N.H. Needs Caregivers! initiative, Southern New Hampshire Area Health Education Center and River Valley Community College.

For more information and to follow the stories from our heroes and runners up, follow the effort on social media at Facebook.com/HealthcareHeroesNH.

Wentworth-Douglass funds YMCA program for ‘second time’ parents

DOVER – A $5,000 Community Benefit Grant awarded by Wentworth-Douglass Hospital will help the YMCA of Greater Strafford County implement a program to help senior caregivers parenting for a second time.

The ‘Parenting a Second Time Around program is designed to help caregivers, like grandparents, take on the role of a primary caregiver due to the opioid crisis, incarceration, addiction, and death. PASTA primarily serves caregivers 60 to 80 years old, who are navigating the world of parenting a second time - often in the middle of difficult situations, at a different stage of their lives.

“Wentworth-Douglass is focused on not just the health of our patients, but the overall health of our community. We have seen firsthand the impacts the ongoing opioid crisis has had locally. Resources like the PASTA program at the YMCA will give families much-needed assistance as they navigate changes and contribute to the overall well-being of the greater Seacoast,” said Wentworth-Douglass President and CEO Jeff Hughes.

“We believe this program will have a meaningful impact on the health and wellbeing of our neighbors by providing community-based support for families navigating new roles as primary caregivers for their grandchildren due to the opioid crisis,” said Michelle Hanson, Director of Strategic Planning and Community Benefit.

The 6- to 8-week educational program evolves into a support group with as many as 12 to 15 families benefiting from workshops on child development, legal issues, and grandparents’ rights.

“We are so grateful to Wentworth-Douglass for this grant which will allow us to fund the first-year costs to launch this program,” said Grace Warwick, Director of Development Data and Reporting at the Granite YMCA. “Often times, these families are enduring difficult times in their lives. Thanks to this financial support from Wentworth-Douglass, we can continue focusing on the needs of our community to help it become a healthier place.”

The funds donated are approved by the hospital’s Community Benefit Funding Disbursement Committee and are not raised through any public or private donations.

This article originally appeared on Portsmouth Herald: Seacoast health news: York Hospital offers webinar on hip and knee pain