Myrtle Johnson and Cooper, the in-house therapy dog at Masterpiece Southlands Meadow, are each other s Valentine during a celebration on Friday. NEWS PHOTO
Creating a “Wall of Sweethearts” was just one of the ways many in local seniors’ residences celebrated this week for Valentine’s Day.
At Chinook Village Eileen Marchand gazes at the three photographs she has displayed on the wall. There is one taken on the day she married Ernest in 1947 after he was discharged from the army following service in the Second World War. Eileen looks chic in a stylish suit and hat.
“Your legs and smile attracted me to you, is what my husband told me later,” she reveals with a smile.
EDMONTON Edmonton s first community dialysis facility is now open, changing how patients with acute renal failure receive care. Dialysis patients in the city can now access services outside the hospital. University of Alberta Hospital outpatient dialysis patients can now access dialysis services outside the hospital with the opening of Alberta Kidney Care - North’s first community dialysis facility. https://t.co/zf1BX6RMpQ AHS YEGZone (@AHS YEGZone) December 21, 2020 It’s a lot quieter,” 79-year-old patient Shirley Stevenson said in a written release. I like the individual pods and the privacy we get here. The West Edmonton Kidney Care facility pods have Wi-Fi access, in-ceiling heating and a personal television.
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Dialysis patients who have been going to the University of Alberta Hospital outpatient unit can now get dialysis outside the hospital in a new community facility.
A procedure that diverts blood out of your body into a machine that filters out waste and extra fluid, dialysis pumps filtered blood back into the body. It’s sometimes necessary to treat acute renal failure, when the kidneys lose their ability to filter and remove waste and extra fluid.
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