Hi everybody, my name is Amanda Esparza
I am a Registered Nurse, and I graduated back in 2010, so I have a few years of nursing experience behind me. Today I wanted to talk to you about
Heart disease, and well not specifically heart disease, but some resources you can reference for getting care related to heart disease. I know a lot of you are
between the ages of 40 and 65, a lot of you can relate to me just because we are both Hispanic, we are both from the same area
I currently work at Foundation and its pretty close to your area. The George Dieter/ Pellicano area, east side of El Paso
So the following things I am going to be addressing with you are basically some resources that are available to you
to treat you and places that can treat you for the illness that you currently have and as I mentioned the big one is heart disease.
So I just wanna start of by presenting a little flyer that I made for everybody. So this flyer is right here, it says healthcare clinics, and there are 2, this is one up here and this is one down here
and so the healthcare clinics that I will be talking about are Project Vida and San Vicente health clinic.
So project vida has several things they offer for patients and I am going to briefly go over those and go over how they would care for patients with heart disease as well
At Project Vida their mission is basically to identify the vision for the community and its future and develop community based structures and programs that the community may need and can utilize
They usually treat the underserved and uninsured population so that's a really good thing about that place.
They are located on Greg street, 14900 Greg Dr. #B and that's in the 79938 area of El Paso
that's far east and some of the things that they offer are primary care, women's health, pediatrics, they even offer psychiatry, and for you all they would offer nutritional classes and yoga classes
so as far as primary care, I have had the pleasure of speaking with the Nurse Practitioner Magdalena there, she's very well informed and well educated
and a very nice lady
as far as primary care, they do see a lot of patients as I mentioned with heart disease, also with diabetes, and we all know that patients with heart disease
most of them anyway, about 70% of Hispanic women with heart disease are also over weight and a lot of that has to do with their diet
as I mentioned before they do offer classes and the classes are awesome, I had the pleasure of seeing the kitchen area where they prep the food and cook. It's a pretty nice area
I also had the pleasure of meeting one of the I believe she calls herself "promotora" which is like a promoter of health and fitness. So she also teaches Yoga classes, so that's pretty sweet that she does that
So the other clinic as I mentioned was San Vicente. San Vicente is a little bit closer to your area that is located in the 79915 area
pretty much the lower valley and east side of El Paso. That location also offers Primary care, women's health, pediatrics, they have a pharmacy, so it makes it a lot easier
for patients to be able to get their medications in a more timely manner and really not having any issues with having to go back and forth and clarify orders or anything between providers
They do administer anti hypertensive medication, cholesterol lowering medications, things like that as well
they also actually have an x-ray department, not really radiology because they don't have any other things like MRI or CT or anything like that, but basic x-ray
they also have dental and they also have nutritional classes, now for both these places the nutritional classes are offered for family just because they like to incorporate the whole family dynamics into the teaching
which is really important. Why should people in my population access these resources and what are the strengths of these resources? So as I mentioned before the strengths are
that they basically cater to low income families, of course if you have insurance that's even better anyone would love to have insurance, but if you don't
they do go based off of income, so it's very affordable, it's not that expensive, so that's a very very big bonus.
Pretty much everyone that works there, they do it because they love it, they don't get paid a million bucks or anything to be their
they do this because they actually genuinely love their job. So the environment is a great feel over all
and the providers are awesome
Who would the people need to contact?
so who would you all need to contact for the resources? For these resources on this flyer there is a number for Project Vida and down here there is also a number for San Vicente
You can contact that number and they can transfer you to a registrars office and there they're gonna let you know what documents they need and usually it's something like a pay stub or a bill just to make sure your
part of our community and that you can give a small payment, and even if you can't they will work with you if you don't have a job.
As far as access to these resources as I mentioned the closest one to your area would probably be San Vicente just because it is closer, you would need transportation, it is not in walking distance at all by any means
but you could use Sun Metro, the public transportation, you can use an Uber, and I don't think it'll be that expensive to take since it's pretty close
the other location with Project Vida, that one is pretty far from your community and you would not be able to walk, they do also have Sun Metro going to that area
just because it is actually pretty close to a high school, I believe it's Mountain View if I'm not mitaken
I have seen bus stops around that area. They welcome children so they're not real strict about that you can take them, and of course if you work during the day and it may be hard to be there during working hours
I know for a fact that San Vicente is open until 7 in the evening so you can possibly schedule an appointment after work or even walk in to be seen
Project Vida is a little more restricted so they don't have that available and as far as the benefits of actually using the resources
they have so many things that they offer, as I mentioned women's health, it's very important to get your screenings, pediatrics for your children to be seen, psychiatry and Project Vida is the only one that offers psychiatry
Health overall can be a daunting thing and usually things contribute to our health such as depression and anxiety some people turn to food for comfort and it's not all the time that they turn to the healthy food so that can be an issue
and as I mentioned they have Yoga and exercise classes so that can help relieve some of the stress and relieve heart issues.
For those who can see this flyer, you can see these websites on here, they also are very helpful. The websites I left on here are www.heart. org and that's for the American Heart Association and www.cdc.gov and that is also for heart health
and on those 2 sites there are links, English and Spanish pamphlets, brochures and informational things on heart disease, how to prevent it, what to do, questions you may have as far as pathophysiology, or how the disease starts
and any questions you can reference regarding medications or pathophysiology and treatment and management of those heart issues.
But my time has come to an end. Thank you very much for your time, have a good day.





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