Hally Healthcast

Welcome to Hally Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in doctors, specialists and other health experts who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about the importance of eye exams and early intervention to healthy vision. January is Glaucoma Awareness Month, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about eye health and vision care. Here with us is Bethany Wallen. She’s a registered nurse and a Medicare star ratings coordinator for Health Alliance in Champaign. Welcome, Ms. Wallen, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge.

“Welcome to Hally® Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in expert doctors, therapists and specialists who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD awareness AND health equity. June is PTSD Awareness Month, which makes this a timely topic, and our guest today is an expert in health equity – which is the idea that everyone should have a fair opportunity to achieve the best health possible, regardless of circumstances – so we should have a most unique perspective on both topics. Here with us is Taylor McInnis. She’s a health equity star ratings coordinator at Health Alliance Medical Plans in Champaign.”

Welcome to Hally Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in doctors, specialists and other health experts who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about the importance of eye exams and early intervention to healthy vision. January is Glaucoma Awareness Month, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about eye health and vision care. Here with us is Bethany Wallen. She’s a registered nurse and a Medicare star ratings coordinator for Health Alliance in Champaign. Welcome, Ms. Wallen, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge.

Welcome to Hally Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in doctors, specialists and other health experts who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about the importance of colon cancer screening. March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about this important topic. Here with us is Dr. Michael Smith. He’s senior vice president and chief medical officer at Health Alliance Medical Plans in Champaign. Welcome, Dr. Smith, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge.

Welcome to Hally Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in doctors and other health experts who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about heart health. February is American Heart Month, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about this important topic. Here with us is Bradley Grissom. He’s a cardiology nurse practitioner at Carle at The Riverfront in Danville, Illinois. Welcome, Mr. Grissom, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge.

Here is the “podcast episode description” to use with this episode when it publishes across all podcast platforms on November 1st: Welcome to Hally Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in doctors, specialists and other health experts who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about seasonal depression. December is Seasonal Depression Awareness Month, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, S-A-D, and the various ways to identify and treat its symptoms. Here with us is Steve Edwards. He’s a licensed clinical social worker and the care coordination supervisor for Care Transition Intervention at Health Alliance in Champaign.

Welcome to Hally Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in doctors, specialists and other health experts who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, and pulmonary rehabilitation. November is COPD Awareness Month, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about COPD and how we can improve the lives of those affected by this disease – including treatments such as pulmonary rehabilitation. Here with us is Sarah Moore. She’s a respiratory care practitioner coordinator at Carle Foundation Hospital’s Pulmonary Rehabilitation department in Urbana. Welcome, Ms. Moore, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge

Welcome to Hally® Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in doctors, specialists and other health experts who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about the importance of an annual physical. August is back-to-school time when many of our youngsters may need to get their annual physical exam for school or athletic participation, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about this important topic. Here with us is Serena Curler. She’s an advanced practice registered nurse working in Population Health services at Carle Health. Welcome, Ms. Curler, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge and experience.

“Welcome to Hally® Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in doctors, specialists and other health experts who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about juvenile arthritis. July is Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about this major health concern. Here with us is Beth Jurkowski. She is a registered nurse and the HEDIS medical records review manager at Health Alliance in Champaign. Welcome, Ms. Jurkowski, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge and experience.

Welcome to Hally Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in doctors, specialists and other health experts who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about Alzheimer’s disease. June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about this major health concern. Here with us is Dr. Daniel Llano. He’s a neurologist at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. Welcome, Dr. Llano, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge.

Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in doctors, specialists and other health experts who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode features two such topics – both quite different, yet as we’ll see, totally related. May is National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about the most common type of bone disease. And our second topic impacts virtually every topic we have on this podcast, but few more than this one, so there’s no better time than now to address the issue of medication adherence – that is, how faithfully we take our medications as prescribed. Our expert on this topic today is Bethany Wallen. Bethany Wallen is a registered nurse and star ratings coordinator at Health Alliance in Champaign, Illinois.

Welcome to Hally Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in doctors, specialists and other health experts who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS. April is IBS Awareness Month, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about this widespread health concern. Here with us is Kati Rudin. She’s a dietitian at Carle Diabetes/Nutrition Services in Champaign. Welcome, Ms. Rudin, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge.

“Welcome to Hally® Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in expert doctors, therapists and specialists who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about cancer prevention. February is National Cancer Prevention Month, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about this important topic. Here with us is Hannah Dignan. She’s a nurse practitioner at Carle Cancer Institute in Urbana and Danville. Welcome, Ms. Dignan, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge.”

Hally Healthcast is the monthly wellness podcast from Hally® health. December is holiday season, so we’re discussing how to cope with the annual stress of simultaneously surviving and celebrating the holidays. Our guests are two experts, Dr. John Beck, a psychiatrist and the medical director of Health Alliance in Champaign, Illinois. And Devin Richardson, a licensed clinical social worker and supervisor of Specialty Care Coordination Programs for Hally health in Champaign.

In this episode, we will hear from the clinical engagement program manager at Carle Health Alana Scopel. She will lead a discussion focusing on diabetes awareness, and why it is important,

Welcome to Hally Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in expert doctors, therapists and specialists who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so today we’re discussing domestic violence awareness. Here with us is Bryce Decker. He is the director of programs at Courage Connection, a social services organization in Urbana, Illinois, that shelters and advocates for those who face domestic violence. Welcome and thanks for being with us today.

Welcome to Hally Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® Health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in expert doctors, therapists, and specialists who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. It's October – fall is upon us with winter to come at its heels. These next few months are often the height of respiratory sicknesses for children and adults alike. You’re likely hearing in the news about the flu, RSV, and COVID-19 – and you might be getting confused about how each one’s different and what all you should know and do to keep your family healthy. We’ve brought in an expert to help answer these questions and more. Here with us is Dr. Brent Reifsteck. He’s a pediatrician at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois, where he’s also the medical director of the Children’s Service Line and the physician coordinator for the Child Abuse Safety Team. Welcome, Dr. Reifsteck, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge.

Welcome to Hally Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Today’s episode is all about awareness of Hispanic heritage and culture. National Hispanic Heritage Month begins in September, so it’s the perfect time to learn more about this important topic. Let’s begin with some awareness about the month itself. Did you know that unlike most monthly observances in this country, National Hispanic Heritage Month begins at midmonth and ends at midmonth, as it is celebrated every year from September 15th to October 15th? The reason is because September 15th is the anniversary of independence for Latin American countries Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, while Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on September 16th and September 18th, respectively. Columbus Day, which celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas, at Guanahani, an island in the Bahamas, on October 12th, also falls within this 30-day period. All right, now for some personal perspective on National Hispanic Heritage Month, here with us is Jessica Arroyo. She’s a bilingual Medicare sales associate for Health Alliance. Welcome, Ms. Arroyo, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge, perceptions and experience.

Welcome to Hally Healthcast, the wellness podcast from Hally® Health – your partner in helping you live your healthiest life. Every episode on our podcast addresses a new topic important to your health and well-being, bringing in expert doctors, therapists and specialists who offer advice and answer your most pressing questions. Today’s episode is all about urgent vs. emergency care. National Preparedness Month isn’t until September, but emergencies don’t care what month it is. So in the interest of helping us all be more prepared in the event of an emergency, let’s take a few minutes right now to learn more about this important topic. Here with us is Dr. Michael Smith. He’s the chief medical officer for Health Alliance™ and Emergency Medical Services director for Carle Regional EMS. Welcome, Dr. Smith, and thank you so much for being with us today and sharing your knowledge and experience.

Hally Healthcast is the monthly wellness podcast from Hally® health. This month is Mental Health Awareness Month, so today we’re discussing mental health – its impact on our day-to-day lives and relationships, the stigmas and barriers associated with diagnosis and treatment, when and where to seek help, and a whole lot more. Here with us are two experts. Dr. John Beck is a psychiatrist and medical director at Health Alliance in Champaign, Illinois. And Devin Richardson is a licensed clinical social worker and supervisor of Specialty Care Coordination Programs for Hally health in Champaign.