Digital Arts Service Corps - health

Miscellaneous Health Resources

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:12:41 +0000

Health Resources
MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/refugee/immigrant/accessmodels.... Links to numerous free of reduced cost Twin Cities clinics also, on another page of the same site: http://www.health.state.mn.us/clearinghouse/resources.htm “Guide To Additional Health Care Resources”, including free and reduced cost
ARTISTS’ HEALTH INSURANCE RESOURCE CENTER http://www.actorsfund.org/ahirc
List of links to area free or low cost community clinics and health care centers
NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CARE NETWORK http://www.nhcn.org

Clinics
ST. MARY’S HEALTH CLINICS http://www.stmaryshealthclinics.org
“Providing health care services at no cost to low income, uninsured individuals and families in our communities”… links and information on 11 clinics
Also, more information can be found at: SISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPH OF CARONDOLET http://www.csjstpaul.org/content.asp?id=182
The group that founded and runs the St. Mary’s Clinics
MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/healthcare/documents/pub/DHS_id_0... Information on MinnesotaCare, a program for people without access to affordable health insurance
RED DOOR CLINIC
525 Portland Avenue, Minneapolis http://www.co.hennepin.mn.us/vgn/portal/internet/hcdetailmaster/0,2300,1... AIDS/HIV clinic: low cost, fee based on patient’s ability to pay
CEDAR RIVERSIDE PEOPLES’ CENTER COMMUNITY MEDICAL CLINIC 435 20th Avenue South, Mpls., MN (612) 332-4973 http://www.cvt.org/new_neighbors/agency6.htm (offsite) Clinic has sliding fee scale, with many refugees among their patients

Sliding Scale Clinics
CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND MINNESOTA http://www.cdf-mn.org/HealthCare/counties
Page features the rather extensive “Minnesota Low-Cost Health Care Directory” and the following are specific details on some sliding scale clinics that were not specifically mentioned by name in the previous items…

Name: Central Avenue Clinic
Located: 2610 Central Avenue, NE, Minneapolis Phone: 612-781-6816

Name: Community-University Health Care Center
Located: 2001 Bloomington Ave South, Minneapolis Phone: 612-638-0700

Name: Fremont Clinic
Located: 3300 Freemont Ave North, Minneapolis Phone: 612-588-9411

Name: Indian Health Board of Minneapolis
Located: 1315 East 24th Street, Minneapolis Phone: 612-721-9800

Name: La Clinica en Lake
Located: 2700 East Lake Street, Suite 1100, Minneapolis Phone: 612-728-7700

Name: McDonough Homes Clinic Located: 1544 Timberlake Road, St. Paul Phone: 651-558-2191

Name: Open Cities Health Center
Located: 409 North Dunlap Street, St. Paul Phone: 651-489-8021

Name: Open Cities Health Center: North End Clinic
Located: 135 Manitoba Ave, St. Paul Phone: 651-489-8021

Name: Roosevelt Homes Clinic
Located: 1575 Ames Avenue, St. Paul Phone: 651-793-6502

Name: Sheridan Women and Children’s Clinic
Located: 342 13th Avenue NE, Minneapolis Phone: 612-362-4111

Name: West Side Community Clinic – La Clinica
Located: 153 Concord Street, St. Paul Phone: 651-222-1816

Name: Uptown Community Clinic
Located: 2431 Hennepin Ave South, Minneapolis
Phone: 612-374-4089

Name: Planned Parenthood of Minneapolis
Phone: 1-800-230-PLAN

Name: Annex Teen Clinic
Located: 4915 42nd Ave North, Robbinsdale
Phone: 763-533-1316

Health Insurance
MINNESOTACARE http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/mncare.pdf Downloadable booklet with eligibility requirements, benefits and more

Whittier Street Health Center

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:10:27 +0000

Whittier Street Health Center
Mens Health Program
1125 Tremont St.
Boston, MA 02120
617-427-1000
Convenient primary health care, maintenance and disease prevention for men 17 and older. Several screenings and two primary care visits are provided to registrants free of charge. Their will also be a weekly discussion forum. They are also working on providing limited memberships to the YMCA to registrants free of charge as well.

Repetetive Strain Injury and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - two different things

Morgan Sully — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:10:26 +0000

(image source: http://www.rsiwarrior.com)

"A repetitive strain injury (RSI), also called repetitive stress injury, cumulative trauma disorder or occupational overuse syndrome, is any of a loose group of conditions from overuse of the computer, guitar, knife or similar motion or tool. It is an occupational overuse syndrome affecting muscles, tendons and nerves in the arms and upper back; hence it is also known as work related upper limb disorder or WRULD. The medically accepted condition in which it occurs is when muscles in these areas are kept tense for very long periods of time, due to poor posture and/or repetitive motions.

It is most common among assembly line and computer workers. Good posture, ergonomics and limiting time in stressful working conditions can help prevent or halt the progress of the disorder. Stretches, strengthening exercises, massages and biofeedback training to reduce neck and shoulder muscle tension can help heal existing disorders.

The most well known repetitive strain injury is carpal tunnel syndrome, which is common among guitarists as well as assembly line workers but relatively rare among computer users: computer-related arm pain is generally caused by another specific condition.

Many of these disorders are interrelated, so a typical suffering person may have many of these at once. For other people, no specific diagnosis is possible. In these cases it is often best to treat RSI as a single general disorder, targeting all major areas of the arms and upper back in the course of treatment."
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetitive_strain_injury)

Links:
http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/disabilities/rsi/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomics

http://www.ergonomics.org/

http://www.carpaltunnel-cure.com/carpal-tunnel-exercises.php

Teeth and Ants

cheryl jerozal — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:14:03 +0000

Before I became a Vista, I naively hoped that the health benefits provided to us would include dental care. Thus, I put off getting my teeth cleaned and checked until when I thought my time of lacking insurance would be over.

At this point I haven't been to the dentist in a while, so when I recently read an article called A survival guide for the uninsured (containing such cheerful news as "The more than 45 million Americans without coverage will get sick more, earn less and die earlier than those with insurance") the best piece of info I got from it was the idea to try to find cheap dental care at dental schools.

I'd heard of people doing that before but hadn't occurred to me lately. It seemed like a good plan. Unfortunately, apparently lots of others think so too. The only dental school in my state takes new patients through a long process which involves being selected through a monthly lottery, being screened via form answers to see if there is a current educational need for you, being placed on a waiting list for up to 6 months, and finally being given a screening appointment to see if they want to work with you. All that for low-cost dental care with people who aren't even dentists yet.

But maybe you'll have better luck - here's a list of dental schools.

In other news, my office has ants. They seem to have formed a colony or something in my trash can. Maybe this'll teach me to take out the trash more than never.