The Deal with Diabetes
A massive 100 million Americans are living with diabetes or pre-diabetes. That’s more than 9% of the population. Diabetes affects the body's ability to make or properly use insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas that regulates the glucose, or sugar, in our blood. For...
Healthy Fun in the Sun
The pools are open, the days are long, and the sun is hot -- summer is finally here! Summer isn’t just the perfect time to enjoy a popsicle or a fireworks show (although we like those things, too!): it’s the ideal time to recommit yourself to a healthy lifestyle....
Managing the Silent Killer
Most of us know that blood pressure is important, and that keeping your blood pressure under control is vital to your health. But do you know why blood pressure matters, and what specific role it plays? On average, your heart pumps over 100,000 times a day. With each...
Training for the Future: Medical student Tim Cho
Meet the Providers: Tim Cho In the “Meet the Providers” series, get to know our dedicated clinicians better, learn what brought them to Hope, and find out why they are passionate about serving the community. As part of his work with Hope, Dr. Imler’s medical students...
We’re hiring!
Hope Healthcare Services is looking for a Nurse Practitioner (NP), Physician's Assistant (PA), or doctor (MD) to serve our patients one day per week. Qualified candidates may contact the Executive Director, John Mollaun at jpm@myhopehealth.org with their interest. Job...
What’s New
If you’re like 75% of Americans, you may find some fear or anxiety popping up whenever you head to the dentist. Thing is, an unusually small number of people have had any type of traumatic experience at their dentist office. Yet, many of us still clam up at the idea of sitting in the dentist’s chair.
Turns out fear of the dentist is a bit like fear of spiders. While most of us haven’t actually had a traumatic experience with the creepy crawler, most of us would rather move out of the whole house than relocate one that is found trespassing. A lot of it has to do with stories and hearing about other people's experiences, and the rest of it pretty much has to do with the fact that everyone seems kind on edge about it, so our brains say “hey, yeah, me too!”.
The good news is that at HOPE we have some of the best in the business as well as a comfortable safe office for you to get those pearly whites looking and feeling their best And don’t forget, as a non-profit, all of our services are extremely low cost, specifically for the uninsured and underinsured.
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Doubling down on our dental talk this week, let’s talk about floss. I always dread the question “have you been flossing regularly?” whenever I head to the dentist because I always realize that I haven’t been flossing nearly enough!
Floss was manufactured commercially for the first time in 1882, so why is it such a hard habit for most of us to stick with? It has less to do with our mouths and more to do with our brains, actually.
Starting in the 1900s, the U.S. had some of the worst dental health of all time simply because of the lack of brushing. Today most people brush 2-3 times a day easily, without even thinking. Turns out the change in oral health habits came from a toothpaste brand that sold the idea of “feeling your teeth” to know when you needed to brush. The rest is history, but with floss it turns out that our brains don’t actually think it matters since we don’t feel a sense of immediate award!
So our trick for getting your brain on board with flossing is to start implementing a cue or reward each time you floss, eventually your brain will be cued to floss each time you brush!
The Good News in Healthcare | Hope Healthcare Services
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Good News In Healthcare Hope Healthcare Services (formerly Kingsway Community Care Center) is a non-profit organization that offers low-cost, quality healthcare services to our neighbors without health insurance. Hope Healthcare Services patients are those who have no private medical and dental i...