National Nutrition Month is a nutrition education and information campaign created annually in March by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The campaign focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.

We’ll be celebrating all month with social media posts, so keep an eye out and be sure to share them on your sites! We’ll also be discussing it on the Healthy Times radio show at 10 a.m. March 6 on 93.9 FM.

Nutritionists

• Lilia Villegas
• Megan Preston
• Mary Beth Gilles
• Heather Watson
• Brittany Anstaett
• Emily Jones
• Rebekah Shoopman

Dietitians

• Nancy Hiner
• Cristina Hiten
• Melissa Smith
• Alyson Layne-Davidson
• Tami Ross
• Jenna Schwartz
• Sarah Czarnecki

LFCHD staff members step up to the Urban Mountain Challenge!

LFCHD staff members completed the 6th Annual Urban Mountain Challenge on January 26 at the Big Blue Building downtown. There was staff representation from WIC, CHEE, School Health, and Administration. Jill Keys, Rebekah Shoopman, Cristina Hiten, Sarah Czarnecki, Lilia Villegas, Andrew Ralston, Cory Rutledge, Bailey Preston, Megan Preston, Tara Mason, Erin Kelley, Valerie Freeman, and Erin Perry participated in the challenge. They each went up 30 stories to complete the race! Mark your calendars for next year and help them expand the team!

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Delightful door decorations!

Some of our Community Health Equity and Education team showcased their holiday creativity by decorating their office doors! Their colleagues voted on the display to select the best one. Thanks to Nancy Hiner, Tara Mason, Tami Ross and Rebekah Shoopman for participating, and congratulations to Erin Kelley for winning with her door inspired by A Christmas Story!

More photos from 2018 Free Flu Shot Clinic!

Here’s a sample of photos from Matt Goins Photography from the Oct. 11 Free Flu Shot Clinic. You can find the full folder on Facebook!

2018 Free Flu Shot Clinic provides almost 1,200 vaccines

We provided 1,165 free flu shots at yesterday’s annual one-day clinic to test our emergency preparedness. Thanks again to everyone who made this event a success!

We also provided 28 free flu shots and 30 hepatitis A shots at Stand Down, an annual event helping homeless veterans.

 

3 LFCHD nurses take part in Hurricane Florence relief

Three LFCHD public health nurses are now in North Carolina as part of a Kentucky response to Hurricane Florence. Stephanie Carpenter, Chris Smith and Heather Toews will be providing medical assistance to those in need after the hurricane hit the east coast over the last week.

You can learn more in this Facebook video (and please excuse the flipped image for the first few minutes; it rights itself later on and makes it easier to catch all the great information from our team)!

First day of classes for School Health!

Some of our School Health nurses sent selfies from the first day of school in Fayette County, and we are ready to help students of all ages! Last year, our School Health nurses saw more than 44,000 visits to their health offices, helping Lexington be well by treating acute and chronic illness, health conditions, and injuries, health education, and disease prevention! We wish a safe and healthy school year to all the students, faculty, staff and nurses in Lexington!

You can find it here on Facebook; please consider sharing it with your family and friends!

World Breastfeeding Week

World Breastfeeding Week starts today with a theme of “Foundation of Life.” We want to hear from you – share your breastfeeding experience to be included with the building blocks on the hallway in our WIC clinics at 650 Newtown Pike and 2433 Regency Road! Breastfeeding is a universal solution that levels the playing field, giving everyone a fair start in life. It improves the health, well-being and survival of women and children around the world. To learn more about our breastfeeding program, please call ext. 2348!

If you’re on social media, be sure to share our post so we can get more responses from the community. You can find it here on Facebook!

National Selfie Day 2018!

Thanks to everyone who submitted selfies to use in our social media posts encouraging Lexington residents to be the picture of good health on National Selfie Day! Be sure to check out our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts and share the images with your friends/family.

Click on an image below to see a larger version.

 

Layne-Davidson to be new regional breastfeeding representative

Doraine Bailey retired May 31 after almost 30 years providing breastfeeding support services to Lexington and Central Kentucky. Alyson Layne-Davidson will continue to ensure moms, babies and families receive high-quality care in her new role as our regional breastfeeding representative. Alyson, who has been a registered dietitian in our WIC program since 2013, starts the new position July 1 and has been working closely with Doraine to learn as much as possible from her years of experience. We appreciate Doraine’s long-time work helping Lexington be well and are excited about Alyson’s future with moms, babies and families!

Be sure to like and share our Facebook post about Alyson’s new position so the rest of Lexington and Central Kentucky can learn more: Facebook (Alyson & Doraine)!