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Your favorite activities make everyday life your own, and bone or joint pain can keep you sidelined. At Wellstar, our skilled and caring team is ready to help you find relief and get back to life with less pain and more freedom.

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Wellstar and the Atlanta Business Chronicle discuss the changing landscape of orthopedic care.

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BacktoSchoolCare: Keeping Kids Healthy & Safe

A new school year is right around the corner. While kids may be the ones returning to the classroom, parents still have their own homework to do too: making sure their child has a healthy start.

Before heading back to school, Wellstar health experts say it’s more important than ever prioritize your child’s physical and emotional well-being.

“Parents can help their children be prepared for school by starting early,” said Wellstar Pediatrician Dr. Andrew Doyle. “Be sure to speak to your children and address any anxieties they may have now about the new school year.”

“Also, getting them scheduled to see their pediatrician for important screenings and immunizations will help them be their healthiest,” he shared.

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Live to the Beat. Powered by Wellstar. Connects Community Members with Heart Health Resources

Live to the Beat. Powered by Wellstar. is an initiative of the Wellstar Center for Health Equity and Wellstar Center for Cardiovascular Care, in collaboration with the American Heart Association, the CDC Foundation and Million Hearts. Through the program, participants meet monthly with a Wellstar Community Health community health worker (CHW) to monitor their blood pressure and discuss ways to keep their heart healthy, such as proper nutrition, exercise and caring for mental health.

Funding has been provided by the Wellstar Foundation to support a partnership with the United Way of Greater Atlanta for a CHW, who is trained using a Morehouse School of Medicine education curriculum.

Participants for the program are identified through the Wellstar Congregational Health Network, which partners with local faith communities to connect congregants with health resources.  

The program is one of several Wellstar community initiatives to address social determinants of health, or the non-medical factors that can affect someone’s well-being, such as access to nutritious foods, housing and education.

"To improve community health and reduce heart attacks and strokes, we must consider non-medical factors," said Elise Lockamy-Kassim, Wellstar assistant vice president for community health and Wellstar Center for Health Equity. "For example, limited access to nutritious food can lead individuals to prioritize high-calorie, less healthy options for satiety, contributing to poor heart health. Food insecurity also causes stress, further weakening the body."

Celebrating a year of impact

The program launched in 2024 at two churches in East Point: First Baptist Church East Point and Mount Olive Seventh Day Adventist Church.

With 14 committed participants, First Baptist brought steady engagement and deep personal growth: 

  • 74% average attendance
  • 80% reported positive health behavior change in daily life
  • 43% saw improvements in their average blood pressure readings
  • 2 participants reported a reduction in medication dosage or number of their medications
  • 3 participants reported more regular visits to their doctors since joining the program
  • 4.69 rating in knowledge gained and overall satisfaction rating of 4.77 out of 5

With 18 dedicated members, Mount Olive participants also made progress on their heart health journeys: 

  • 90% average attendance
  • 82% reported positive health behavior change in daily life
  • 61% saw improvements in their average blood pressure readings
  • 3 participants shared that their clinicians reduced the dosage or number of their medications
  • 2 participants reported more regular visits to their doctors since joining the program
  • 100% 5-star rating in both knowledge gained and overall satisfaction
Learn more about the Wellstar Center for Health Equity. To learn more about the national Live to the Beat campaign, visit Live to the Beat.
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Inspire Implants Introduce Better Sleep Apnea Care

If you have sleep apnea, waking up tired may be your norm. Even if you wear a CPAP every night, you might not get the good night’s rest you need. Thankfully, there’s a different option available.

Positive airway pressure (PAP)—CPAP and BiPAP therapy—is the most common treatment for sleep apnea. It pushes pressurized air through a mask to keep your airway open so you can sleep better. But it doesn’t work well for everyone.

“For years, countless patients who have been intolerant of CPAP or BiPAP therapy have had few options for treatment,” said Dr. Michael Vick, an otolaryngologist with Wellstar. “What we have done in the past has been painful and unpredictable.”

Fortunately, if you don’t respond to PAP therapy, there’s good news. Wellstar is a multidisciplinary Center of Excellence for Inspire Implants—the first with the designation in Georgia and the second in the country. This hypoglossal nerve stimulator can reduce sleep apnea without the bulky mask.

What is sleep apnea?

Sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder. It causes you to stop breathing off and on while you’re asleep. It can happen when something blocks your airway (obstructive sleep apnea) or if your brain doesn’t send the right signals to the muscles that control your breathing (central sleep apnea). Either way, your body doesn’t get enough oxygen.

To kickstart your breathing, your body triggers a survival reflex. The jolt wakes you up just enough for you to start breathing again. But it also breaks your sleep cycle, meaning you’re tired the next day. And without proper treatment, you can develop high blood pressure or other heart problems that can be life-threatening.

How is sleep apnea diagnosed?

You may have sleep apnea if you snore, wake up frequently at night or stop breathing when you sleep. An at-home or overnight in-clinic sleep test can diagnose you accurately.

At-home tests use a finger monitor to measure and record your airflow, blood oxygen level, breathing pattern and heart rate. We may suggest an in-clinic test called a polysomnogram if we think you have central sleep apnea. This test uses electrodes placed around your body to evaluate your arm and leg movements, blood oxygen level, brain activity, breathing, and heart and lung activity while you sleep.

Common treatments for sleep apnea

Oral appliances can treat mild sleep apnea, and surgery can address treatment-resistant sleep apnea. But two types of PAP therapy have long been the most common treatments for most people with moderate-to-severe sleep apnea:

  • Continuous PAP (CPAP): A machine delivers constant air pressure through a mask to keep your airway open during sleep.
  • Bilevel PAP (BiPAP): A similar machine uses a mask to deliver higher air pressure when you inhale and lower air pressure when you exhale.

More advanced sleep apnea treatment

PAP therapy is uncomfortable for many people. If it doesn’t work for you, an Inspire Implant can reduce your sleep apnea without the mask. The two-piece implant involves a sensor in your chest and a receiver that wraps around the hypoglossal nerve that controls your tongue.

Our ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialists partner with lung and sleep medicine experts to place the device. They perform a minimally invasive procedure that requires two small incisions. This outpatient surgery requires minimal recovery time.

Once in place, the implant works simply. When turned on at night, the sensor sends a signal to the receiver that gently stiffens your tongue and palate with each breath, so your airway does not become blocked—all without waking you.

According to Dr. Vick, Inspire has been a breakthrough for many patients who cannot tolerate CPAP or BiPAP therapy. While success rates can vary depending on individual health factors such as body mass index (BMI), Inspire generally delivers higher satisfaction, fewer complications and a more comfortable recovery than previous surgical options.

“With Inspire, we have a successful and convenient treatment option with a high patient satisfaction rate. While it is a surgically placed device, there is far less risk of complications and downtime than anything we have previously offered,” he said. “If you cannot tolerate PAP therapy, you should consider Inspire.”

Learn more about Inspire at Wellstar and find an ENT who’s right for you.

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