Stitched with love for patient recovery
GFWC Lutz-Land O’ Lakes Woman’s Club members Melba Peneira and Gail Howard delivered bundles of hand-sewn pillows to AdventHealth Tampa and the Moffitt Cancer Center. These pillows help to provide comfort to post-surgery breast cancer patients and are made by a team from the woman’s club. For information, visit LutzLandOLakesWomansClub.org or its Facebook page.
Drug disposal bags available
Pasco County Fire Rescue is providing drug disposal bags at every fire station in the county — free for pickup by members of the community — in partnership with the Alliance for Health Communities (AHC), according to a news release.
The Deterra Drug Deactivation System Pouches use a chemical to deactivate the drugs, preventing environmental contamination and rendering the medication unusable. The medication can simply be dropped in the bag, water added, and the medication becomes deactivated.
Pasco Fire Rescue will become the largest department in the country with the risk reduction tool, now available at all of the county’s nearly 30 fire rescue stations, the release says. The bags also are available on all fire engines and will soon be available in Fire Rescue staff vehicles.
Fire Rescue Chief Anthony Perez said it is an easy, simple way for people to get rid of unused or unnecessary medication….keeping the medication out of the wrong hands, which helps keep the community safe. The bags are available at no cost to the community through AHC.
Hospital partners with school
As part of an ongoing partnership between AdventHealth Heart of Florida and Ridge Community High School in Davenport, Tim Clark, president and CEO of the AdventHealth Polk market, donated medical supplies to the school and Principal Angela Clark.
Clark asked the health academy leaders what sort of equipment the students needed to help as they progress through the four years in the health care academies. The answer: blood pressure (bp) cuffs of different sizes and new stethoscopes. The hospital donated 15 stethoscopes and 20 bp cuffs to the students, according to a news release.
The community school offers students opportunities to learn trade skills in academies, like the health care academy. Students work through rigorous programs learning marketable and employable skills to their chosen industry. Participants also work with community partners to learn and apply the skills they’ve learned.
