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Stronger together: How Eagle County’s health care workers rose to the challenge of COVID-19
The valley’s two largest health care providers, Vail Health and Colorado Mountain Medical, braced for the arrival of COVID-19 by stockpiling personal protective equipment before supply chains were overwhelmed and launching a system-wide high-level task force to solve logistical challenges as they arose. But when case numbers exploded locally in early March, there was no training to emotionally prepare for the reality of a novel virus that was highly contagious and deadly. Caitlyn Ngam, Ken Stephen, Julie Scales and Mark Joffrion share their personal experiences in dealing logistically and emotionally with the pandemic. Working together on the same problems, with the same goals in mind, often times with different approaches, brought Chris Lindley and Dr. Brooks Bock together — and the two organizations they represented. Colorado Mountain Medical’s merger with Vail Health in July 2019 had, on paper, already created a valley-wide health care network — but Lindley, Bock and Vail Health CEO Will Cook insist that it took a pandemic, of all things, to truly make the two providers inseparable. Each day brought new challenges, and with those challenges came spirited debates, brainstorming sessions and swift innovation. Making it to the other side of the pandemic, with the county rapidly approaching 30,000 total doses of vaccine distributed, is the light at the end of a tunnel in a trying year.
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Chronic Inflammation: What It Is, Why It’s Harmful and How to Reduce It
Inflammation in the body is a normal and healthy response to injury or attack by germs. We can see it, feel it and measure it as local heat, redness, swelling and pain. Inflammation is the body’s way of getting more nourishment and immune activity into an area that needs to fend off infection or heal.
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Can Heat Help Heal Depression? Vail Health is Researching the Possibilities
Vail Health is continually looking for innovative, science-backed ways to elevate physical and mental health. One of the newest areas its research team is studying is the effects of heat on depression, and specifically the purposeful use of elevated temperatures to trigger positive health outcomes.
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Vail Health + Surf Synergy Ignite Longevity In Costa Rica
Living is one thing, but truly being alive is another. Our time in this world is measured in seconds, and the goal is to fill as many of them as possible with the things that bring us joy. Vail Health embodies this philosophy, and I had the privilege of experiencing it firsthand at their inaugural longevity retreat at Surf Synergy in Jacó, Costa Rica.