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Steamboat resident creates cookbook, claims ‘Damn Good’ recipes for a more healthy lifestyle

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Peggy Curry holds a copy of her cookbook “Damn Good Gluten Absolutely free” at her household in downtown Steamboat Springs Wednesday Sept. 7, 2022. The author will be at the Off the Beaten Route Bookstore from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10.
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For nearly 3 decades, Peggy Curry’s enthusiasm for food has fueled her personalized projects. Now, she desires to share her recipes for greater overall health in a new cookbook, “Damn Very good Gluten Absolutely free.”

“For 30 several years, I have been teaching persons how to eat for their health and fitness,” explained Curry, who splits her time in between Manhattan Seashore, California, and Steamboat Springs. “I started off instructing men and women how to consume for their health and fitness since my mom experienced breast most cancers. She fought it for 11 several years, and I saw how food stuff truly produced a variance for her until she handed absent.”

For the duration of that time, Curry started off achieving out to persons and featuring instruction on how having much better foods could modify their lives.

“I began training people today how to take in for their wellbeing, instructing  parents how to cook dinner and nourish their kids and their households,” Curry reported. “I want to help people seriously appear at this full component of food stuff and how it can mend, how it brings households alongside one another. The relatives meal desk is substantial when boosting families, specifically in this quick-paced planet.”

Her enthusiasm to introduce men and women to the electrical power of food stuff led to numerous endeavors together with Evy’s Yard, which creates an organic marinara sauce named immediately after her mother, Evy Rosenbloom, who died 1994.

Curry also co-launched GrowingGreat and created a curriculum that is employed by the nonprofit as it pursues its target of empowering youngsters to make balanced foodstuff choices by arms-on science and garden education. Curry explained the organization’s plans have expanded across the United States in the previous 23 a long time, reaching hundreds of thousands of small children and their households.

Then 12 years back, immediately after Curry and her 4 daughters ended up all identified as gluten intolerant, she joined her daughter Megan Curry to produce Curry Ladies Kitchen. The mission was to aid people today explore a healthful way of living by giving delectable gluten-absolutely

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CHI Health creates its own program for traveling nurses | Health and Fitness

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The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated an existing health care worker shortage, prompting hospitals large and small to have to turn to staffing agencies and traveling nurses to fill holes caused by resignations, retirements and workers out sick with COVID-19 or something else.

But that strategy is only a short-term one, and it’s very expensive. Average pay for travel nurses is currently about $3,300 a week, according to health care recruiting company Vivian Health. That’s up from about $1,800 a week before the pandemic.

CHI Health, which owns St. Elizabeth and Nebraska Heart Hospital in Lincoln, is a perfect example.

Timothy Plante, division vice president of patient care, said the company spent $8 million on traveling nurses in February. Before the pandemic, its average yearly spending on traveling nurses was less than $2 million.

“Obviously, this model is not sustainable,” Plante said. “So we had to get creative.”

That solution is to create its own system of traveling nurses. Called the CHI Health Midwest Internal Travel Program, it allows existing CHI Health nurses, technicians, lab scientists, pharmacists and other employees to travel within the health system’s footprint on 6- to 12-week assignments. The program also is open to experienced health professionals who don’t currently work for CHI Health.

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Plante said it has two levels, one for people who only want work in hospitals in Nebraska and southwest Iowa, and another tier for those who are willing to travel to CHI Health hospitals in Minnesota and North Dakota.

He said the company is able to provide its staff travel nurses the same rate of pay they would get from a staffing agency but still save money because it doesn’t have to pay staffing agency fees. In addition, the workers get the stability of a regular job along with benefits such as vacation and retirement that aren’t typically provided with traveler contracts.

Plante said the system works well, because in many cases it is keeping employees within the CHI Health fold who might have otherwise left to take a traveler position.

“One thing to keep in mind is that if somebody really wants to go do this, they’re probably going to do it anyway, so having a way to keep them internal within our own organization is really important,” he said.

That was the case for

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Medical student creates app for improving transgender individuals’ experience with health care

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Rutgers is endorsing the beta launch of TranZap, a web-based application designed by a Rutgers medical student for the transgender community to leave reviews for health care providers, according to a press release.

Taylor Chiang, co-creator of TranZap and a second-year student at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, discussed their role in the project and what made them want to create this resource.

They said that as a transgender individual, they think many aspects of health care need improvement in terms of treating the transgender community.

“A lot of the time, trans folks do avoid health care because they are afraid of the barriers that they might face,” Chiang said. “Those barriers can include financial barriers like straight-up access to care, but also discrimination, harassment, trying to explain what it means to be transgender, microaggressions, things like that. I think a lot of those things are off-putting to trans folks in terms of just seeking everyday care.”

Their role has consisted of advertising, creating protocols, getting feedback and more while the co-founder, Eli Lucherini, a doctoral candidate at Princeton University, has been working on the web development and coding for the app, Chiang said.

When inquiring over social media about which aspects of health care need improvement to the transgender community, Chiang often heard from community members that they do not know where to get suitable referrals or find gender-affirming health care providers, they said.

To address these issues, the app contains two main features, which are the ability to leave a review of a health care provider one has recently seen and the ability to look up those reviews once they have been left in the app, Chiang said. People can also browse for a particular physician.

Chiang said they like to see the app as similar to Yelp, except for transgender people and specific to health care. They said the reviews that are left on TranZap cover the overall experience of transgender patients with certain health care providers and answer specific questions to crowdsource information in one place.

“Did this provider ask what your preferred name was? Did this provider ask what your pronouns were? Did they use the pronouns once they asked what those pronouns were?’” Chiang said. “Those are very easy yes or no questions — they either did it or they didn’t do it — and we had some other questions that people

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