Village Pediatrics of Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Babysitting Skills with Maria Mekeel RN

Roxie — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:03:49 +0000

Title: Babysitting Skills with Maria Mekeel RN
Location: Century Center in Carrboro
Description: Babysitting with Maria Mekeel RN
Start Date: 2010-10-08
End Date: 2010-10-09

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Infant and Child CPR Overview

Roxie — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:59:33 +0000

Maria will be teaching her life-saving Infant and Child CPR class again soon, but we need more participants before we can schedule. This class for parents will not provide CPR certification, but if your memory of these techniques is a little fuzzy, or you want to know what to do in an emergency situation, call Maria to sign up! 919-969-9611

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Pertussis is Bad

jfowler — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:57:19 +0000

Really bad. According to the Los Angeles Times, Pertussis is making a comeback. We’ve seen it right here in Chapel Hill, with several cases confirmed by the Orange County Health Department in recent years. This story reminded us that TDaP is a mandatory vaccination for rising 6th graders in North Carolina.

Avoid the rush! Get ready for back to school today!

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First Parent to Parent Post

jfowler — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:50:19 +0000

We get so many good tips and tricks from parents, we thought we’d dedicate a special part of our website just to sharing this great information. To start off, we’d like to thank Sara for introducing us to Nosefrida, the Snot Sucker! Sara introduced us to this product, and we find it to be extremely effective. We hope you like it too!

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Careful with that Vitamin D!

jfowler — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:32:32 +0000

The Food and Drug Administration recently alerted parents and caregivers that some liquid Vitamin D supplement products are sold with droppers that could allow excessive dosing of Vitamin D to infants. Please read the FDA Vitamin D warning, and make sure you are giving no more than 400 international units (IU) per day. Excessive Vitamin D can be harmful to infants.

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Dr. Bernosky makes the News and Observer!

jfowler — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:51:35 +0000

Edie’s trip to Washington and her press conference with BCBSA and BCBSNC at the National Press Club was a huge success. The childhood obesity and diabetes toolkits we helped develop are now available nationwide, and Dr. Bernosky’s remarks were quoted in today’s News and Observer! She was also quoted on getgoingnc.com and The Seattle Times! Pediatricians need more collaboration like this with insurers to provide better care to patients. Like Dr. Bernosky says, “This is a national epidemic, and what we need to do is take measures and strategies from multiple directions… It’s useless to promote these concepts if we don’t reinforce that and make it possible to achieve these goals.”

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Watch Dr. Bernosky Live at the National Press Club!

jfowler — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:52:05 +0000

Dr. Edith Bernosky (Edie) will be speaking today at the National Press Club with both Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association about their new obesity and diabetes toolkit. Village Pediatrics has been helping to develop BCBSNC’s obesity and diabetes toolkit since 2007, and today Dr. B will be announcing the availability of this toolkit to all BCBS pediatricians nationwide!

The press conference is at 2pm, and you can watch is live here: http://www.bcbs.com/news/bluetvradio/childhood-obesity-and-diabetes/

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The Carolina Railhawks Come To Southern Village!

Roxie — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:55:36 +0000

Celebrate the start of summer vacation by meeting team members of the Carolina Railhawks professional soccer team, as well as their team mascot, Swoops! The Railhawks, Eurosport, and the Independent Weekly will be presenting this special event at 7:00pm on Thursday June 10th on the Village Green. Come for the team giveaways and free raffles, and stay for the 9:00 showing of ‘Bend it Like Beckham’.

$4 regular admission if you stay for the movie | $3 if you’re wearing your soccer uniform | $2/person if you and your team of 5 or more people show up in uniform

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Meet Dr. Edith Bernosky

jfowler — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:20:54 +0000

: Edith Bernosky MD

Edie (MD. MPH. FAAP) joined Village Pediatrics in June 2009. Edie is originally from New York state where she completed her undergraduate work at Vassar College and received her medical degree from New York University Medical School. She completed her pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition. Edie received a degree in public health from the University of Michigan, and completed fellowship training in Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of North Carolina and Child Maltreatment and Neglect at Duke University. Edie has worked with the Center for Child and Family Health and has served as the Medical Director of the State of North Carolina Child Fatality Team.

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Expecting a Baby?

Roxie — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:38:58 +0000

Now is a good time to sign up for our free New Parent CPR class! This is a two-hour class that will led by American Heart Association certified instructor Maria Mekeel, RN. The class will be held in July and refreshments will be provided. Email maria@villagepediatrics.com if you are interested.

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