September 2015
Mountain View News
Table Of Contents
Boat Ride
Pictures
2
Resident B-days
& Staff Anniver- 3
saries
4
The Benefits of
the Flu Vaccine
&
5
Flu Vaccine
Myths & Reality
6
Shining Stars
7
Fisher Cats
Game Pictures
8
&
9
Employee News,
Looking for
10
Cribbage Opponents & Pictures
Chaplains Corner 11
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Happy September Birthday To:
09/02
Margaret Thomas
09/04
Dorothy Tufts
09/05
Lynwood Ryder
09/06
Christine Fipphen
09/08
Armando Graziano
Carmen Aponte
09/11
Louis Kelly
Bernadette Schuette
09/13
Lance Harbison
09/20
Shirley Hatton
09/12
Joanne Marden
Happy September Anniversary To:
1 Year
Deborah Bruno
Amanda Morse
Kimberly Reed
2 Years
Lois Bushman
3 Years
Howard Chandler
4 Years
Candice Dolliver
Zenya Hernandez
Alan Michie
6 Years
Karen Casazza
Renee Mikita
9 Years
Marianne Cochrane
35 Years
Penny Getson
44 Years
Claire Tallman
12 Years
Diane Varney
21 Years
Deanna Chaffee
5 Years
Cathy Stanley
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What Are The Benefits Of Flu Vaccination?
How can I protect myself against flu?
Yearly flu vaccination is the best tool currently available to protect against influenza (flu).
While how well the flu vaccine works can vary, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) recommends a yearly flu vaccination as the first and most important
step in protecting against flu and its potentially serious complications. Millions of people have safely received flu vaccines for decades. Flu vaccination can reduce flu illnesses, doctors’ visits, and missed work and school due to flu, as well as prevent flu-related
hospitalizations and deaths.
Recent studies* by CDC researchers and other experts indicate that flu vaccine reduces
the risk of doctor visits due to flu by approximately 60% among the overall population
when the vaccine viruses are like the ones spreading in the community.
A flu vaccination does not guarantee protection against the flu. Some people who get
vaccinated might still get sick. However, people who get a flu vaccine are less likely to
get sick with flu than someone who does not get vaccinated.
Why should I get the flu vaccine?
There are lots of reasons to get a flu vaccine each year.
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Flu vaccination can keep you from getting sick from flu. Protecting yourself from flu
also protects the people around you who are more vulnerable to serious flu illness.
Flu vaccination can help protect people who are at greater risk of getting seriously ill
from flu, like older adults, people with chronic health conditions and young children
(especially infants younger than 6 months old who are too young to get vaccinated).
Flu vaccination also may make your illness milder if you do get sick (Belshe, 1998).
Flu vaccination can reduce the risk of more serious flu outcomes, like hospitalizations and deaths.
A recent study showed that flu vaccine reduced children’s risk of flu-related pediatric
intensive care unit (PICU) admission by 74% during flu seasons from 2010-2012
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(Ferdinands, 2014).
One study showed that flu vaccination was associated
with a 71% reduction in flu-related hospitalizations
among adults of all ages and a 77% reduction among
adults 50 years of age and older during the 2011-2012 flu
season (Talbot, 2013).
Flu vaccination is an important preventative tool for people with chronic health conditions. Vaccination was associated with lower rates of some cardiac events among
people with heart disease (Ciszewski, 2008; Phrommintikul, 2011), especially among those who had a cardiac
event in the past year (Udell, 2013). Flu vaccination also
has been shown to be associated with reduced hospitalizations among people with diabetes (79%; Colquhoun,
1997) and chronic lung disease (52%; Nichol, 1999).
Vaccination helps protect women during pregnancy and
their babies for up to 6 months after they are born. One
study showed that giving flu vaccine to pregnant women
was 92% effective in preventing hospitalization of infants
for flu (Benowitz, 2010).
Other studies have shown that vaccination can reduce the
risk of flu-related hospitalizations in older adults. A study
that looked at flu vaccine effectiveness over the course of
three flu seasons estimated that flu vaccination lowered
the risk of hospitalizations by 61% of people 50 years of
age and older (Talbot, 2011).
“It’s Never Too
Early To Start
Thinking About
Flu Shots “
*A list of references for the research studies mentioned
above is available on the CDC website.
http://www.Cdc.gov/flu/about/ga/benefit-publications.html
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Influenza and Influenza Vaccine Myths and Reality
Myth: The flu vaccine can cause influenza.
Reality: The injectable flu vaccine does not contain the live virus so it is impossible to get
influenza from the vaccine. Side effects may occur in some people, such as mild soreness,
redness, or swelling at the injection site, headache, or a low-grade fever. The nasal spray
flu vaccine contains live, attenuated (weakened) viruses that can cause mild signs or
symptoms such as runny nose, fever, sore throat, and nasal congestion. This vaccine, however, cannot cause influenza infection in the lower respiratory tract. Vaccination is safe
and effective, and the best way to help prevent influenza and its complications.
Myth: The flu shot doesn’t work.
Reality: The influenza vaccine will prevent influenza most of the time. In scientific studies, the effectiveness of the vaccine ranges from 70 to 90 percent, depending on how well
the circulating viruses match those in the vaccine. In populations in which the vaccine is
less effective in preventing influenza, such as the elderly, the vaccine reduces the severity
of the disease and the incidence of complications by 50 to 60 percent and the incidence of
death by approximately 80 percent. Getting vaccinated is the most effective way to protect
against influenza and its serious outcomes.
Myth: Our staff follows Standard Precautions, with good hand hygiene practices and appropriate glove and mask use – so vaccination is not necessary.
Reality: Influenza is spread by respiratory droplets generated when talking, coughing or
sneezing. Adults shed influenza virus at least one day before any signs or symptoms of the
disease, so health care personnel can unknowingly infect patients or other staff. 50 percent
of influenza infections can be asymptomatic, and both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals can shed the virus and infect others.
Myth: Our staff stays at home if they are sick – so vaccination is not necessary.
Reality: Since unvaccinated individuals are contagious at least one day before any signs
or symptoms of influenza appear, they can still shed the virus and infect patients and other
staff. Unvaccinated health care personnel can become infected with influenza and not
have any symptoms, and both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals can shed the
virus and infect others.
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Myth: There is no evidence to support that influenza vaccination of staff improves patient outcomes.
Reality: Health care personnel can acquire influenza from the community or their patients
and can transmit it to patients or other staff. Influenza transmission and outbreaks in
health care organizations have been recognized for many years and have been associated
with substantial morbidity, mortality, and costs. Influenza’s short incubation period and
ease of transmission through respiratory droplets from person to person can result in explosive outbreaks of febrile respiratory illness. Health care settings are favorable environments for such transmission. Increased rates of staff vaccination result in decreased rates
of health care-associated influenza. In fact, one group of researchers concluded that the
reduction in morbidity, mortality, and use of health service resources associated with vaccinating their long term care facility was “equivalent to preventing five deaths, two admissions to hospitals with influenza-like illness, seven general practitioner consultations
for influenza-like illness, and nine cases of influenza-like illness per 100 residents during
the period of influenza activity.
Myth: Influenza vaccinations for staff will be too costly.
Reality: The cost savings associated with health care personnel influenza vaccination programs generally outweigh the costs associated with providing the vaccine, and vaccinating ultimately results in a safer environment for patients.
Shining Stars
There are many staff that go above and beyond the call of duty. Let’s recognize them. You
will notice yellow stars at each nurse’s station and the front office. Take a moment to
acknowledge what that staff member does to improve the quality of life for our residents.
Write it on the star and bring star to front office. The stars will be
hung by the picture board downstairs. Help us celebrate the wonderful things that happen daily here at MVC.
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Employee News
Missy Nadeau’s
step son Derek
Nadeau got
engaged to be
married to Ashley
Cynewski.
A September 2018
wedding is in the
works!
Congratulations
Derek and Ashley!
Do You Like To Play Cribbage?
Pearl Lambert is looking for an
opponent to play Cribbage with her!
Please see the front office if you are
interested.
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Chaplains Corner
As a regional chaplain here in the Lakes Region, I minister to five particular people
groups. These are the addicted, disabled, elderly, hospitalized and homeless who have no
faith fellowship. I’ve been formally making myself available to these individuals since
September 2013. Like any pastor of a congregation, I have a fair amount of one–on-one
conversations along with offering conflict management counsel, memorial and funeral
services.
Recently on the same day, while at Mountain View Community and at one of the area’s
local addiction recovery meetings I had the same conversation with three different persons, unrelated and unknown to one another, The subject was an issue we probably all encounter in our lives, sometimes more than we would like. It’s the subject of how to deal
with emotional hurt.
Hurt comes in all sizes and can preoccupy our waking and sleeping for a lifetime. We
don’t go looking for it, but it finds a way of wedging itself into the fabric of our family
and friendships, at work and recreation. We might be minding our own business and
someone says something that flips us out. We could be playing a card game or doing a
puzzle with others, and a simple pause on our part becomes the fodder for another’s criticism.
Years back someone said and did something that created a terrible pain in my heart. I remember being consumed with that hurt to the point, I almost gave myself an ulcer. Fortunately about that time I was reading a small paperback called The Freedom of Forgiveness. Though I do not have it, to refer for this article, the suggested lessons are still
with me. They were my answers to those three individuals who asked me for advice.
When we choose not to forgive someone for what you feel they do not deserve, you know
what happens? We entrap ourselves. That other person may be completely unaware of
their words and manner’s effect upon us. But we are caught in that moment. The only action that can really free us from our hurt and bitterness, is to forgive them in our heart and
minds. I can guarantee, from personal experience, that when you choose to make this decision, even if you feel they do not deserve it, you will be released, set free from that
bondage of hurt.
Be Well,
Pastor John Babson for The Lakes Chaplaincy
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