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Understanding Your Health
Have you ever left a healthcare appointment and realized you weren’t completely sure what the Provider meant? You’re not alone.
Health Education
Your mouth can tell you a lot about your overall health, yet dental care is sometimes easy to put off when nothing hurts. Taking a few minutes each day to care for your teeth and gums can help prevent problems and keep your smile feeling its best.
Screening & Prevention
Your breast health deserves attention throughout every stage of life. Becoming familiar with what is normal for you can make it easier to notice something different and know when it’s time to speak with a healthcare provider.
Mental Health
Recovery can look different from one person to the next. For some, it may mean taking the first step toward treatment. For others, it may involve rebuilding relationships, discovering healthier routines, or learning how to navigate life one day at a time.
Mental Health
Sometimes, the most meaningful support begins with something as simple as asking, “How are you really doing?” A person who seems quiet, distant, or different than usual may be carrying something they haven’t shared.
Health Education
Your liver works around the clock to keep your body healthy. It filters toxins, stores nutrients, and helps fight infection-yet many liver conditions develop quietly without noticeable symptoms.
Mental Health
When you hear the words self-care, what comes to mind?
Heat & Sun Safety
Living in the Sonoran Desert means sunshine is part of everyday life. For generations, the Akimel O'otham and Pee Posh people have lived and worked under the Arizona sun-fanning, gathering, caring for the land, and participating in cultural traditions.
Understanding Your Health
Your brain works every second of every day-guiding your thoughts, memory, sleep, emotions, and movement. Yet brain health is often overlooked until something feels wrong.
Mental Health
Strong Men Take Care of Their Health Too. With Father's Day just around the corner, it's a great time to recognize the men in our lives-fathers, grandfathers, brothers, sons, cousins and uncles who contribute so much to their families and communities.
Health Education
Spring brings fresh air and new growth—but what’s in the air may be affecting how you feel. Learn how to stay ahead of changing conditions and protect your breathing while staying connected to the outdoors.
Heat & Sun Safety
Time in the sun is part of daily life—but are you protecting your skin the right way? Discover simple habits that help keep your skin healthy while you enjoy the outdoors.
Mental Health
Your health is more than what you can see—your thoughts and emotions play a powerful role, too. Find out how caring for your mental well-being can improve how your body feels every day.
Health Education
We rely on our feet from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to bed. Yet, they are often one of the most overlooked parts of our health. Foot care is especially important for individuals living with diabetes.
Health Education
Alcohol is often part of social life-shared at gatherings, celebrations, or used as a way to unwind after a long day. Because it's so common, it can be easy to overlook how it may be affecting our bodies, our minds, and our daily lives.
Mental Health
National Stress Awareness Month, a time to reflect on something we all experience-but don't always recognize: Stress.
Health Education
Your kidneys may be small-about the size of a fist-but they play a powerful role in keeping your body healthy. These two bean-shaped organs filter about 150 quarts of blood each day, removing waste, toxins, and excess fluid from the body.
Screening & Prevention
Early detection can account for up to 52% of saved lives. Colorectal cancer affects the colon (large intestine) and rectum, which are the final parts of the digestive tract.
Health Education
Food is not just calories, it's information. It actually contains messages that connect to every cell in the body. Given this connection, it is important to reflect on how the foods we eat can support-or sometimes hinder-our health and energy.
Health Update by Gila River Health Care | Patient Newsletter
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