Poison prevention

Suicide prevention training on March 15

GRANGEVILLE — Courageous Survival will have a free day of mental health, resiliency and suicide intervention training in Grangeville on Wednesday, March 15. This training focuses on QPR (Question.Persuade.Refer) and ASSIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) style intervention techniques for…

Poison prevention

OSWEGO COUNTY - March is Poison Prevention Month, the Children’s Board of Oswego wants to remind the community about poison prevention.

Fall Prevention

Over the past month, I have noticed an increase in injuries resulting from falls.  This past week, one of my eldest patients suffered a fall and has undergone surgeries as a result.  For this reason, I feel it is appropriate to discuss falls.  Falls in general have a higher tendency to be life altering in the senior citizen population, and some seniors never regain full functionality after sustaining a fall.  In fact, the CDC reports that one qu…