Stress Awareness Month

Posted on April 5, 2012 by admin

This year marks the 20th anniver­sary of the National Stress Aware­ness Month, a thirty-day period (April 1–30) ded­i­cated to increas­ing the public’s aware­ness about both the causes and the cures for our mod­ern stress epi­demic. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Watch Out for Type Two Diabetes

Posted on March 29, 2012 by admin

This week we cel­e­brated Amer­i­can Dia­betes Asso­ci­a­tion Alert Day, a one-day call to action – held the fourth Tues­day of every March – ask­ing peo­ple to take the Dia­betes Risk Test to find out if they are at risk for devel­op­ing type 2 diabetes.


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National Poison Prevention Week 2012

Posted on March 22, 2012 by admin

This week is the 50th Anniver­sary of National Poi­son Pre­ven­tion Week. At Impact Urgent Care – located on Hueb­ner Rd. – we want to make sure we are doing our part to spread the word and let peo­ple know what they should be on the look­out for in their own homes.
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Brain Injury Awareness Month

Posted on March 15, 2012 by admin

March is the offi­cial Brain Injury Aware­ness Month. More often than not a brain injury is a life-changing event. Some­times, a “sim­ple” blow to the head can be the begin­ning of a mis­di­ag­nosed and mis­un­der­stood neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­ease. In order to pre­vent future com­pli­ca­tions and poten­tially save lives, indi­vid­u­als who sus­tain brain injuries must have timely access to expert trauma care.


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Sleeping and eating

Posted on March 7, 2012 by admin

Sleep­ing and Eating.

We all love to sleep and eat. So it’s a good thing that this week is National Sleep Aware­ness Week (March 5–11) and that March is National Nutri­tion Month.
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Thank you! — Employee Appreciation Day

Posted on March 2, 2012 by admin

We just cel­e­brated our sec­ond anniver­sary. It was yes­ter­day in fact! It has taken a lot of hard work and ded­i­ca­tion for us to get this far, and we wouldn’t be here with­out the won­der­ful sup­port of the com­mu­nity and the clients who choose us for their urgent care needs. But let us not for­get a very impor­tant group of peo­ple – our employees.

Today is Employee Appre­ci­a­tion Day, it’s always the first Fri­day in March.  With­out all of our employ­ees, we couldn’t pro­vide the level of care peo­ple have come to expect at Impact Urgent Care (located on Hueb­ner Road).  We wouldn’t be able to announce the grand open­ing of our sec­ond loca­tion com­ing up in mid May at 7110 FM 78, near Fort Sam Hous­ton.  We wouldn’t get to have fun at work every day, while we help peo­ple and take care of their health so they can get back to hav­ing fun, too.

So we sim­ply want to say: Thank you. Thank you to each and every one of our staff mem­bers. You all make every day spe­cial and we are proud to have you on board.

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Fighting Childhood obesity begins at home

Posted on February 24, 2012 by admin

Accord­ing to the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion, child­hood obe­sity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. We all, as a soci­ety, need to under­stand that the inci­dence of child­hood obe­sity and its con­se­quences are dev­as­tat­ing. Although stud­ies have shown that weight is a lead­ing cause behind child­hood bul­ly­ing and children’s depres­sion, it is not just a cos­metic or emo­tional issue. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Black History Month Spotlight

Posted on February 17, 2012 by admin

Many of us at Impact Urgent Care are his­tory buffs, and because it’s Black His­tory Month, we’d like to intro­duce you to a very impor­tant fig­ure in the med­ical field. His name was Daniel Hale Williams and he founded Prov­i­dent Hos­pi­tal, the nation’s first inter­ra­cial hos­pi­tal, and per­formed the world’s first suc­cess­ful heart surgery. Con­tinue read­ing →

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Allergy Testing

Posted on February 9, 2012 by admin

Spring allergy sea­son will be here soon and many are already suf­fer­ing. It might be because San Anto­nio was ranked 40 out of 100 cities in a 2010 study on spring allergy cap­i­tals. Con­tinue read­ing →

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American Heart Month

Posted on February 2, 2012 by admin

If you haven’t started tak­ing care of your­self in 2012, then Feb­ru­ary is lit­er­ally the per­fect month to get your heart pump­ing. Why? It’s Amer­i­can Heart Month and the health ben­e­fits of phys­i­cal activ­ity are proven and well doc­u­mented. The ben­e­fits of as lit­tle as 30 min­utes of brisk walk­ing a day include: Con­tinue read­ing →

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