Your Bridge To Wellness: Crossing Rivers Health Blog

During National Heart Month, you're encouraged to know your numbers and talk with your provider about blood pressure. Understanding your risk is helpful in making healthy choices and following a treatment plan that’s right for you.

As the new year begins, it’s a great practice to reflect on the successes and challenges you faced in 2025 and make plans for 2026. Did you accomplish your goals? Do those goals still align with your life?

By Lacie Anthony, Crossing Rivers Health Licensed Professional Counselor

Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) is a modern approach to healthcare that brings together physical and mental health support in one place. Instead of separating medical care from mental or behavioral health care, IBH focuses on the connection between your mind, body, and daily habits — because how you think, feel, and act all affect your health.

By Jennifer King, MSN, APNP, FNP-C Crossing Rivers Health Palliative Care Provider

Palliative Care is specialized medical care focused on improving the quality of life for people living with serious, chronic, or life-limiting illnesses. It is designed to address the whole person, including their physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs.

by Janelle Helgerson, Crossing Rivers Health Population Health Nurse

We love wearing pink during October, but it is so much more than that. Wearing pink raises awareness of breast cancer screening, the importance of early detection, steps you can take toward the prevention of breast cancer, and supports survivors.

Protect Your Precious Cargo

By Samantha Martin, MSW, CAPSW, CPST

National Child Passenger Safety Month is observed each September, with Child Passenger Safety Week taking place September 21–27. These initiatives promote the proper use of car seats, booster seats, and seat belts to help prevent injuries and fatalities among children. Crossing Rivers Health has staff who are Certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians (CPST).

Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the U.S. In 1964, a groundbreaking report by the U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health made headlines in newspapers and television news programs.

Although school is out for the summer, it’s not too early to start thinking about well-child checkups and sports physicals. It can be easy for the summer to slip by and leave you rushing to complete these prior to the start of a new school year. During the first months and years of life, children grow and develop at a fast pace. Well-child checkups are focused on assessing your child’s health, growth, and development. Your primary care provider can partner with you to help your child stay healthy, safe, and successful in all areas of life.

Chances are you know someone who has had skin cancer. That is because it is the most common cancer worldwide. More people are diagnosed with skin cancer in the US than all other cancers combined, and this number is growing each year. The beginning of summer is a great time to remind yourself how to prevent and detect skin cancer.

Your body and mind are deeply connected — and your health depends on both. As U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy warns of a growing “epidemic of loneliness,” it's more important than ever to understand how isolation can impact your well-being.