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While feeling ill or hurt can cause sadness or anxiety, many people do not recognize that moods can have effects on physical health. Stress, anxiety, and depression all raise body levels of a hormone

By: Ashley Absmeier-Koppenhafer, PT, DPT Dry Needling is a technique utilized to restore normal muscle function.  A thin filament needle is used to decrease muscle

It’s early in the day, but the waiting room at Alamosa Family Medical Center is already crowded. Two-year-old Michelle is here with her dad, who has an appointment with one of the physicians; Ozzy, also 2, is here

Dyan Anderson, Nurse Home Visitor for the San Luis Valley Nurse-Family Partnership Program at Valley-Wide Health Systems, Inc. (VWHS) was recently awarded a Kaiser Permanente Loan Repayment Award through The Colorado Community Health Network

Congressman Scott Tipton’s Legislative Director, Dustin Sherer visited our Valley-Wide Pharmacy on August 2nd to learn about our pharmacy operations and programs.  It is essential that our legislators continue to support Community Health Centers like Valley-Wide.  With

In case you missed this month’s KRZA Healthlines, a talk show dedicated to sharing helpful information about different health topics of interest to folks in the upper Rio Grande Valley, you can catch the full show

Valley-Wide Health Systems is pleased to announce that Dr. Jason Ward is the most recent dentist to join our team.  He will work at our Edward M. Kennedy Dental Clinic in Monte Vista and at the Center

By:Trevor Schmidt, PT, DPT Pain is something that every person has at some point in time. In fact, if we are not able to feel

SLV Habitat for Humanity is making the dream of home ownership possible!  They work with families who are unable to obtain a traditional mortgage but are willing to pitch in on constructing their new homes.  SLV Habitat’s work is made

Valley-Wide Health Systems is pleased to announce that dentist Stacey Robben, DDS, has joined our dental practice.  She will work at our Edward M. Kennedy Dental Clinic in Monte Vista and our Center Dental

When I first started working with Valley-Wide, everyone knew who Dr. Steinberg was; she was a no non-sense provider. To tell you the truth, I think many of us were intimidated by her. When

Cancer has touched many of us in some way, so we decided to fight back by raising funds and walking in our local American Cancer Society Relay for Life Event that is scheduled for Friday, July