Health Connection E-newsletter
Environmentally Friendly Hair Care Products
Are Your Hair Care Products Environmentally Friendly?
What if you could you could help the environment with your hair care products? With Santé Image Renewal Boutique & Salon’s new environmentally friendly products, you can.
Santé Image Renewal Boutique & Salon now carries Surface hair care products made from all-natural ingredients and packaged in recyclable materials.
Surface hair care products offer a variety of lines for different hair types that are created from environmentally friendly materials. Surface Products are made with combined organic, gluten-free, sulfate-free, 100 percent vegan protein and paraben-free ingredients, and are infused with Color Vita Complex and Vitamins, A,C and E.
SMMC Receives Gold Seal for Approval in Inpatient Diabetes Care
Shawnee Mission Medical Center (SMMC) recently received The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™ for its inpatient diabetes program by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety in disease-specific care. SMMC is the first and only hospital in the Kansas City metro area and the state of Kansas to receive this award.
Play it Safe in the Sun
With summer in full swing, it is important to take appropriate measures to protect your skin from the sun’s harmful rays. Skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in the United States, with more than 3.5 million diagnoses each year. Here are several steps you can take to ensure that you and your family are properly protected from the sun.
Meet Mommy & Me Boutique's New Manager
After you have a baby, where can you go to find high-quality products, experienced staff and a calm atmosphere? The answer is Shawnee Mission Medical Center’s (SMMC) Mommy & Me Boutique. At Mommy & Me, located just steps away from SMMC's Special Addition Birth Center, you will find helpful service and specialized products for you and your baby.
Mommy & Me’s new manager, Courtney Woods, says the boutique’s personalized customer service is what sets it apart from other baby retail stores.
25 Years of Dedication to Kansas City's Health
By Jessica Wahaus
Imagine you have an upset stomach that just won’t go away. What do you do? You don’t have time to wait for a doctor’s appointment and you’re not sure it’s serious enough for the Emergency Department. For the past 25 years, the ASK-A-NURSE Resource Center (AAN) at Shawnee Mission Medical Center (SMMC) has been the Kansas City area’s source for immediate medical information.