March 2011

Supplement to The Lakeville Journal, The Millerton News and The Winsted Journal
2 HEALTH & WELLNESS, March 2011

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2011 Health & Wellness

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Connecticut
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, Torrington, CT
540 Litchfield St., Torrington, CT 06790; Phone: 860-496-6666;
www.charlottehungerford.org; Emergency care: 24/7; 109
beds; Among specialties: Maternity care, cardiology, cancer
treatment.
Fast Track treatment of non life threatening injuries daily 11
a.m.-11 p.m.; 540 Litchfield St., Torrington, CT, 06790; Phone:
860-496-6666

Concentra Urgent Care, Torrington, CT.

333 Kennedy Drive, #202, Torrington, CT, 06790; Phone: 860-482-
4552; www.concentraurgentcare.com/urgent-care-connecticut-
torrington.php; Urgent Care Hours: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to
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manicures • pedicures 80 Seymour St., Hartford, CT 06102; Phone: 860-545-5000; 860-
facials and full body waxing 545-0000; www.harthosp.org; 867 beds; Emergency care 24/7;
518-789-6007 Among specialties: Life Star, cancer center, heart center, stroke
138 Route 44 • MilleRton, n.Y. 12546 center, transplant program

New Milford Hospital, New Milford, CT

Our Dentist Gives Us 21 Elm St., New Milford, CT 06766; Phone: 860-355-2611; www.
Something to Smile About... newmilfordhospital.org. Emergency care 24/7; 85 beds; Among
 specialties: Regional Cancer Center; Regional Heart Center


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1598 East Main St., Torrington, CT 06790; Phone: 860-489-8444;


www.charlottehungerford.org/offsite_services/medical_walkin.


asp; Hours: Monday-Friday: 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Saturday: 8
 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; Sunday: 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Sharon Hospital, Sharon CT

50 Hospital Hill Road, Sharon, CT 06069; Phone: 860-364-
4000; www.sharonhospital.com; 78 beds; Emergency care 24/7;
Among specialties: primary stroke center, birthing suites,
cancer care, sleep center

St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT

114 Woodland St., Hartford, CT 06105; Phone: 860-714-4000;
New Patients are Always Welcome! www.stfranciscare.org; 617 beds; Emergency care 24/7; Specialties
200 Elm Street 100 Maple Avenue include trauma, cardiac, cancer and orthopedic rehabilitation.
Pittsfield, MA 01201 Great Barrington, MA 01230
413.499.4850 413.528.4490
Winsted Health Center, Winsted, CT
Visit us on the web at: 115 Spencer St., Winsted, CT 06098; Phone: 860-379-0888; www.
www.yarmoskypediatricdentistry.com winstedhealthcenter.org; Emergency care: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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Emergency Services
Massachusetts
Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA
725 North St., Pittsfield, MA 01201; Phone: 413-447-2000; www.
berkshiremedicalcenter.net; Emergency care 24/7; 302 beds;
Among specialties: Cancer care, cardiology, pain management,
trauma center
New England
Fairview Hospital, Great Barrington, MA
Patient Resources, LLC
29 Lewis Ave., Great Barrington, MA 01230; Phone: 413-528-
Do you need help reviewing medical bills and benefits?
0790; www.berkshirehealthsystems.com/body_fh.cfm?id=39; An ABC News report states medical bill error rates may be as high as 80%.
24 beds; Emergency care 24/7; Among specialties: cancer care, Yet only about 5% of patients find these mistakes
cardiology, maternal and child care
Fairview Dialysis Center at 10 Maple Ave., Great Barrington Not sure what your doctor is saying and not asking the right questions?
80 % of doctors in a Consumer Reports survey think you should have
someone trained accompany you to visits to help both them and you
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NEPR offers caregiver relief services to give you a break
43 New Scotland Ave., Albany, NY 12208; Phone: 518-262-3125;
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cancer and cardiovascular research.
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Columbia Memorial Hospital, Hudson, NY Find a clinical trial?
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women’s services.
when I went into surgery and coordinated my continuing care.
St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers, Poughkeepsie, NY
Later, NEPR found mistakes in my bills and negotiated with
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Photo contributed
Diane Coe, RN, and Dr. Mark Marshall tending a patient at Sharon Hospital
The Hospitalist.
It sounds like a character
from the “Adjustment Bu-
reau” or some other slightly
sci-fi movie.
But in real life, it is Dr.
Mark Marshall’s title.
As the hospitalist he over-
sees the care of all patients
admitted to Sharon Hospital
for surgery or through the
emergency room, who may
not have a doctor or whose
doctor simply does not come
to the hospital.
Why wouldn’t a doctor
Enter the Hospitalist
come to the hospital to see
a patient? Isn’t that what
they’re supposed to do? After
all, don’t they know the pa-
tient best?
But as medicine has be-
come more specialized, it
should come as no surprise
that hospital care has be-
come a specialty of its own.
Many primary care doctors
find the demands of keeping
regular office hours and be-
ing available to their patients
on an outpatient basis in con-
flict with providing medical
care to a patient who’s been
admitted to the hospital. It
is, after all, hard to be in two
places at the same time.
If a doctor has three pa-
tients in the hospital, what
happens to the eight patients
with appointments sched-
uled in the office?
Enter the hospitalist: Mar-
shall, who did his residency
at the Albert Einstein Col-
lege of Medicine in New
York and then was the chief
medical resident there, spe-
cialized in internal medicine.
Tara Kelly
looks at
how
hospital
care has
become a
specialty
of its own.
But as the hospitalist at
Sharon Hospital he is a
generalist as he oversees
patients in acute care.
They come in with a wide
range of maladies: heart dis-
orders, attacks and arrhyth-
mias; pneumonia; infections;
traumas. Often the focus is
on palliative care, manag-
ing symptom relief and pain
control associated with ill-
ness and terminal illness. He
is often involved in end of
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But then Toby was back, carried into
her room in a small cage. The gray tabby
was not at all himself upon his return.
But by the very next day, he had settled back into his
routine, curled up against her pillow, looking sublimely
Concerned about the cost of custodial care regal and very contented on the pink, quilted bedspread.
When Krummenacker reaches out to stroke his head,
(when you can no longer manage for yourself)? Toby squeezes his eyes shut in pleasure. Hers light up
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Toby is one of several cats who live at Noble Hori-
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Animals are truly celebrated.
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daily care. At 87, her mind is still lively. She talks about
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Call Ed ErbaChEr For a MakE SEnSE on her window.
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in an assisted living facility.

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As an adult, she had an “obnoxious” poodle that
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been opened up to her.
A shelf full of family photos is adored, but just as
important is a bulletin board filled with photos of as-
sorted species — a caregiver’s horses, a bear foraging
Kent
in a trash bag, her granddaughter’s long-ago pet rats,
and the therapy dogs, including her favorite, a golden
retriever named Stella.
“I couldn’t stand it here without my doggies. They
are like my friends coming in. When they get on my
lap and give me a smooch, it’s better than having a
husband.”
It’s like having grandchildren. They come, are fed
and adored, and then they go home.
“I don’t have to do anything for them but hand out
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. . . Giving and Getting

Unconditional Love

Continued from page 9

through their own routine while they wait for their

Gert Krummenacker and Toby at Geer
Noble Horizons
treat.”
The dogs are all trained through the Good Dog
Foundation. Their owners, who sometimes bring their
own families, have become a new branch on her fam-
ily tree.
Jennings’ favorite time is the Pooch Party in May.
About 70 dogs, most in costume, came last year. It
will be a fundraiser this year for the Good Dog
Foundation scholarship fund.
Seniors get what anyone does from a pet; uncondi-
tional love, of course. Then there are the comfortable
silences and hugs that don’t need words.
Both ladies offered the same insight beyond that.
Krummenacker worried, unnecessarily as it turned
out, that Toby would not be as loyal now that the vet
said he can’t have the bits of her dinner she gave him
each night.
Jennings is rationing her fast-dwindling jar of
expensive treats. They know the animals expect more
than a cuddle. But that’s okay, because being depend-
ed upon makes one feel vital.
“Toby’s not a cuddly cat. He likes to lick the top of
my yogurt cup, but he won’t sit in my lap. But I’m
his person — that’s how cats are, you know — and he
does something to me that makes me feel good for
the whole day.”
At 95, she has outlived most of her family. Noth-
ing she can do about that. But she will not give up
her animal friends as long as she has anything to say
about it.
As for Jennings, she knows her doggies expect that
treat first, but it is a small price in exchange for how
she feels when she pets her “angels.” p
 HEALTH & WELLNESS, March 2011 11

Cynthia Hochswender
checks out the details of
providing first aid at home.

How To Handle
Emergencies
At Home

M
ost people have, right in their homes,
all the ingredients they need to put
together a proper first-aid kit.
The problem for many of us,
though, is finding all the pieces and
putting them together at the moment of greatest
need — such as when someone in the house has a
deep cut.
No one should have to look in five places to find
bandages and disinfectant when there’s blood on the
floor and panic in the air.
The American Red Cross sells pre-assembled first-
aid kits, but also publishes this list of essential ingre-
dients. Make a scavenger hunt out of it. Somewhere
in your house, many of these items exist (some of
the items seem pretty exotic to me, but I’m not a
nurse, doctor or EMT; you’ll have to decide for your-
self if you want to leave some pieces out of your kit).
See if you can find them all and assemble them in
one box, in one room. If you do it, then I will, too.
The Red Cross recommends that you keep a list
of emergency phone numbers handy. In my house,
where we have only cordless telephones, it would be
nice if the phone could be found without having to
search five rooms; but we’ll try to keep this list man-
ageable and realistic.
At-home First-Aid Kit
Here’s what the Red Cross wants you to have ready
and easily accessible:
• Two absorbent compress dressings (5 by 9 inches)
• 25 adhesive bandages (assorted sizes)
• One adhesive cloth tape (10 yards by 1 inch)
• Five antibiotic ointment packets (approximately
1 gram)
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. . . Scissors,
Tweezers,
Continued from page 12 Thermometer
• Five antiseptic wipe packets
• Two packets of aspirin (81 mg each)
• One blanket (space blanket)
• One breathing barrier (with one-way valve)
• One instant cold compress
• Two pairs of nonlatex gloves (size: large)
• Two hydrocortisone ointment packets (approximately
1 gram each)
• Scissors
• One roller bandage (3 inches wide)
• One roller bandage (4 inches wide)
• Five sterile gauze pads (3 by 3 inches)
• Five sterile gauze pads (4 by 4 inches)
• Oral thermometer (non-mercury/nonglass)
• Two triangular bandages
• Tweezers
• First-aid instruction booklet
I’ve always assumed that the best place to keep a first-
aid kit (oops, am I giving away the secret that I haven’t
got one ... yet?) is in the bathroom, near the medicine
chest.
Actually, according to the online website webmd.com,
the best place is in the kitchen. For one thing, the site
advises, “most family activities take place there.” Also,
“The bathroom has too much humidity, which shortens
the shelf life of items.”
If you actually don’t have all or most of those items in
your house, and you want to put one together without a
lot of fuss, you can purchase premade kits from the Red
Cross that are fully loaded or packed with just the es-
sentials (with many options that are “in between”). And
when you buy them, you’re financially supporting the
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. . . Ice Or Heat?
Continued from page 12
oversimplifying (always ask a
medical professional for ad-
vice if you can), ice will reduce
swelling (because it is a vaso-
constrictor and makes blood
vessels smaller) and heat will
do the opposite.
In theory, put ice on an
acute injury, something pain-
ful that has just occurred, such
as a sprained ankle. Use heat
on something more chronic,
such as a sore shoulder.
Sometimes, a medical pro-
fessional will tell you to alter-
nate heat and ice. As a nonpro-
fessional, I will boldly say that
sometimes you just don’t feel
like putting ice on an injury,
but heat seems like just the
thing. Maybe sometimes it’s
best to follow your instincts;
but always follow your doctor’s
advice.
First Aid for Pets
Since most of us wouldn’t
think twice about getting
advanced cancer care for our
pets, why not keep a pet first
aid kit around as well?
The American Red Cross
makes and sells many ver-
sions, most of which include a
variety of unguents and ban-
dages as well as a rescue blan-
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triangular bandage, a 5ml syringe, and a soft muzzle.”
Another online site recommends keeping on hand
some sort of tranquilizer in case the animal is in a state
of panic and can’t be treated. Some of the first aid-kits
come with a glow-in-the-dark lead or leash — not a bad
idea, especially for a first-aid kit that you’re going to
keep in your car.
Travel First Aid
And speaking of keeping a first-aid kit in your car . . .
it’s not a bad idea to have one, of course.
According to most of the online advice sites, you’ll
want to keep more or less the same items in your
travel first-aid kit that you have in your household kit
— with the exception of perhaps the oral thermometer.
Definitely keep an extra set of tweezers in your trav-
el kit; and if you’re like me and are likely to borrow
the tweezers for a quick cleanup on your eyebrows, be
sure to replace them with the other supplies (instead of
tossing them in the glove compartment).
A little extra food and water (and more automotive
supplies such as flares) are a good idea, too.
What Not To Keep Out
In this new world where children not only don’t
mind taking medicine but actually seem to enjoy it,
you might also want to think about which items in
your medicine chest should not be easily accessible.
The regional Housatonic Youth Service Bureau,
based in Falls Village and serving the six towns of
Connecticut’s regional school district, is now offering
prescription-drug lockboxes to area families.
They can be used to keep very young children from
taking pills or using sharp objects by mistake; and
they can be used to keep older children from harming
themselves purposely or inadvertently.
To learn more or place an order for a lockbox, call
the Housatonic Youth Service Bureau at 860-824-4720.p
 HEALTH & WELLNESS, March 2011 15

Marsden Epworth gets the word

on physical Therapy
Hylton Hundtsalon
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to talk about their work and I don’t see a lot of menacing

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equipment about.
Good start.  
Busby is particularly interested in women’s health before  
and after giving birth, dealing with such matters as pelvic
pain and urinary incontinence.
And Parker says that she loves shoulder patients, delight-
ing in the number of bones that make up that tricky and
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complex part of the body. Of course the two treat all kinds
of infirmities, from head to toe. Literally. And the profession
is gaining a bigger place in medicine, these days.  
At one time, people had to get a referral from their M.D.   
to see a physical therapist. That, Busby said, is no longer the
case. Now people come straight to a therapist on their own,  
seeking diagnosis and treatment for a multitude of com-    
plaints. (And most insurance covers treatment, she said.)
Still, physical therapists have to get orders for X-Rays or         
prescriptions for pain from medical doctors. But that may            
change in the years ahead, Busby told me, as physical thera-       
pists, like Busby and Parker step higher up the academic
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ladder, gaining doctorates and conducting research.

         
Nordicare Physical Therapy is at 22 Upper Main St. in Sha-
ron, CT. For information: 860-364-9840.
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. . . Oatmeal, Anyone?

Continued from page 16

Milk, too, is kind to skin. The lactic acid fights dark circles and it ex-
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Making an oatmeal milk scrub is quick and easy with a blender or
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. . . Specializing in Being a Generalist

Continued from page 6
life decisions. Hospital medi-
cine is a specialty within
internal medicine.
“We take care of the sick-
est people. They need more
attention overall. They need
someone in the hospital to
manage their care,” Mar-
shall said.
They will be his patients
only for the time they are
confined to the hospital.
And for that time, Marshall
is there, in the hospital, in
close proximity to his pa-
tients. Every day includes an
11 a.m. interdisciplinary team
meeting.
There, nurses, social work-
ers, physical therapists,
pharmacologists, the chief
nursing officer and Marshall
review all the patients and
discuss where they are in
their progress toward well-
ness and discharge.
When a patient leaves
either to go home or to enter
a rehabilitation facility such
as Noble Horizons, or Geer,
they will resume seeing
their primary care doctor.
But until then Marshall is go-
ing to see each patient on his
rounds as his primary concern.
Sharon Hospital has a total
of 78 beds and that includes
the bassinets in the nursery,
and the beds in the maternity
ward.
Marshall may have any-
where from eight to 18 patients
at a given time. The average
stay for a patient at Sharon is
three to four days, but he has
had patients in his care for
weeks, depending on the cir-
cumstances.
Marshall came to Sharon
Hospital 12 years ago and in
addition to being the hospital-
ist, he is the chief of staff.
Outside the hospital, Mar-
shall is the medical director of
Salisbury Visiting Nurses’ hos-
pice service and medical con-
sultant for Salisbury School.
Marshall lives in Salisbury
with his wife and their two
children, who both go to Salis-
bury Central School. They’re
a big hockey family and Mar-
shall finds time to coach youth
hockey as well. Clearly, in life,
this specialist is definitely an
all-round generalist. p

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