If you think a pharmacist is just someone who gets an order from a doctor and passes out the pills, tune in and learn how you are wrong! 

NorthLakes Pharmacy director, Chris Dryer, joins me for a conversation about the nuances of what she and her team in prescription services do to get medications to our patients. 

NorthLakes Community Clinic is one of many agencies in Wisconsin that provides School Based Behavioral Health Services. This offers easy access to care for students and prevents parents needing to leave work to get a child to an appointment.

In this episode, Jes Springer, a NorthLakes Behavioral Health Therapist and School Based Behavioral Health Director, shares many more details about how this program is helpful to families and schools, talks about some of the mechanics of the program and then shares how her two therapy dogs, Dave and Linda, help her provide care.

Linda during the interview.

Richelle Andre and Sashi Gregory share their wisdom about Community Health Centers, (AKA) Federally Qualified Health Centers), from working at the Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association.

The conversation ties into National Health Center Week 2024 - a celebration of CHC's throughout the nation. Is there an event close to you?

Check here.

This is a great breakdown of how each CHC is different and how they are the same, what kind of care they provide and why you should visit one!

Information about Sashi's cricket exploits, Click Here.

Picture of horse barn at Scenic Bluffs Community Health Center.

What is Weight Stigma? How can it affect someone’s health? What is NorthLakes doing about it? Behavioral Health Therapist Megan Collins and Registered Nurse and Clinical Quality Improvement Manager, Lori Cannon discuss all of this in this episode of the NorthLakes Podcast. 

Link to Implicit Bias website that Lori mentions: Click Here

Links to NorthLakes Posters: Click Here and Here

What is social isolation? Why is it bad? Who is prone to it? What can you do about it?

All of these questions and more are answered in this conversation with NorthLakes Psychologist, Allison Allen. We go a little deeper into emotional check ins and make references to a feelings wheel. Here is a link to one if you want to try it out:

https://feelingswheel.com/

NorthLakes Community Clinic Pediatric Dentist Rena Christman talks about teeth, kids, and how she and her team works with families to have positive encounters at the dentist. She also gives us a few different names for baby teeth, how to develop good brushing and flossing habits, and tells us what's in her car.

The NorthLakes Podcast returns with a conversation about High Blood Pressure with Family Nurse Practitioner, Emma Cole and Registered Dietitian, Rebecca Crumb-Johnson. They share some explanations of High Blood Pressure, how the heart works and why healthy blood pressure is a good thing. 

It’s a fun and informative discussion about a condition that affects many of us. 

Here is a link that explains the DASH diet Rebecca refers to: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/education/dash-eating-plan

Not many people enjoy getting a vaccination. For some, it's extremely hard. To help make it easier, NorthLakes is working to create environments and conditions that will make it a more tolerable experience. Nurse Practitioner Angela Lunn tells us all about Sensory Friendly Vaccination Clinics in this episode.

Materials for this program were shared by the Autism Society.

More information can be found here:

https://autismsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/AS_VEI_Guide-to-accessible-vaccine-clinics_EN.pdf

This episode of the NorthLakes Podcast is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.

What is Trauma? How does it effect people? What can they do about it?

These are just some of the questions that Behavioral Health Therapist, Jane Moker answers in this episode of the NorthLakes Podcast.

Jane provides care at NorthLakes Community Clinic - Marinette.

What is Dry Needling? How can it be part of Chiropractic Care? Learn this and more in this in-depth conversation with Park Falls Chiropractor Claire Tomashek. Dr. Tomashek uses it to help treat patients for a variety of conditions and explains how it integrates with the other methods she uses in her practice.

The second week of August is National Health Center Week, so in this episode we will talk to NorthLakes CEO Reba Rice about Federally Qualified Health Centers, some NorthLakes history, and how and why we and other health centers do what they do.

It’s a great hour of conversation with one of the driving forces of how NorthLakes started in an old coffee shop in a small town to a center that has a coverage area over 20,000 square miles.

https://nlccwi.org/careers/current-openings/

Social Anxiety in Children is this month's topic and for it we talked with Behavioral Health Therapist Paul Workman. Paul works with kids of all ages in the Hayward and Minong schools and people of all ages in our Minong clinic. From that experience he provides insight on what Social Anxiety is, how to treat it, and the short and long term effects it can have.

Learn more about NorthLakes Behavioral Health Services here:

https://nlccwi.org/care-and-services/behavioral-health/

Massage therapy is a newer service here at NorthLakes so we wanted to learn more about it.

Luckily Massage Therapist Tracy Davis was willing to talk.

Here’s our conversation:

Do you think that you know everything about Lyme Disease? So did we until we sat down with Physician Associate Tom Nigbor. He shares everything that someone who lives or visits an area with a lot of ticks should know. Along that way he may tell you a couple of things that you may have wrong about this common disease, how to spot it, and how it is treated.

What is NorthLakes Sliding Fee Scale? How does it help people access care? Director of Patient Financial Services, Tricia Krym answers these questions and explains how people can find out if they may qualify.

The end of the Public Health Emergency (PHE), means there are some changes to some peoples Medicaid (AKA BadgerCare) coverage.

What do you need to know? Get the lowdown on the latest edition of the NorthLakes Podcast where we talk to Access Coordinator, Medicaid expert, Patty Turner.

This episode has information specific to the Spring of 2023. If you need the most up to date information about BadgerCare, Medicaid, or anything insurance related, call us at: 888.834.4551

Two links mentioned in this episode:

Marketplace: https://www.healthcare.gov/

Medicaid/BadgerCare: https://dhs.wisconsin.gov/badgercareplus/index.htm

Rebecca Crumb-Johnson is a Registered Dietitian as well as a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist at NorthLakes. In this episode she shares what she knows about sugar and why we crave it, what it does to us and why that may not be good.

In the episode she talks about the World Health Organization's recommendations on consumption. Here is a link to that: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241549028

Occupational therapist, Angie Schoeppach works with patients every day that have a challenge keeping their emotions in check. She brings her insight to this episode of the NorthLakes Podcast. The conversation goes from why regulating your emotion is important to how she works with patients find the emotional, "just right zone".

Your host also shares a moment of needing to regulate his own emotions right before Angie arrived.

What is a community health worker? They are a key component in breaking down barriers to wellness at NorthLakes Community Clinic. In this episode with talk with two of them, Brenda Spurlock and Xristobal Ramirez Romero about what they do and how they collaborate with the providers at NorthLakes.

Fear of going to the dentist is a real thing and everyone experiences it in a different way. In our talk with NorthLakes Community Clinic Dentist Tina Sopiwnik, she shares how she works with her patients, both young and old, to make a visit easier.

She also shares some suggestions on how parents can make those visits easier for their kids. We also talk a little bit about her dog.