For more than a century, Fairview Hospital has been a safety net for the Great Barrington community, who appreciate the facility’s small-town feel combined with its nationwide network of care.
We all know that yearly physicals are important for adults—it’s the one time someone’s going to check your cholesterol, after all. But even for those near-invincible young kids and adolescents, yearly visits are just as important as your own. And with the pandemic disrupting both parents’ and kids’ schedules over the last year-and-a-half, it’s vital for kids to get up-to-date for both wellness visits and vaccinations before they go back to school this fall.
In the summer of 2019, Liz Glover Wilson had just opened the second location of her burgeoning Gardiner yoga studio and wellness campus, Stone Wave Yoga, in Poughkeepsie. Like so many other small business owners in the Hudson Valley, she had no way of knowing that only months later her entire business would fundamentally change. With the pandemic’s economic and personal challenges constantly at her door, however, yoga remained the one thing that Glover Wilson knew she could count on. “A lot of the students who stayed with us this last year are hungry to learn more about the yoga tool kit because they’re seeing that it really does work,” she says.