Need a shower? We hear you. With water service disrupted or pipes bursting in homes and apartments, it s been a long week.
The YMCA of Austin is opening its locker room showers to anyone who has been affected by the water outage.
Showers are available at these locations during branch hours:
East Communities YMCA, 5315 Ed Bluestein Blvd., 512-933-9622, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Hays Communities YMCA, 465 Buda Sportsplex Drive, 512-523-0099, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
North Austin YMCA, 1000 W. Rundberg Lane, 512-973-9622, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Northwest Family YMCA, 5807 McNeil Drive, 512-335-9622, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The research does tell pediatric cardiologists that their programs need to consider not just the heart, but the whole patient. That means being aware of the association between heart disease and mental health and screening for mental health disorders among their patients.
Lopez explains that the field of pediatric cardiology has developed from the initial goal being survival, and once patients were surviving, then worrying about the developmental delays and cognitive issues doctors were seeing. And then once those screenings and interventions were happening, worrying about the mental health aspects. It s not just the recognition, Lopez says, It s what are we going to do now.
The Thinkery children s museum is reopening.
It has been closed to the public since Dec. 23, when Austin and Travis County went into Stage 5 recommendations for COVID-19 because of the rising number of cases and hospitalizations.
The museum planned to open beginning Feb. 19, but pushed it back a week because of the winter storm last week.
Now the museum plans to open with limited visitors on Feb. 26, starting with members. The general public can start visiting on Feb. 27.
Now it is opening two-hour general admission time slots that will allow the museum to stay at 25 percent or less capacity. It is also restarting the Baby Bloomers program for children younger than 3.
Martinez had been working on other national task forces, including with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with the secretary of health and human services. He also has been working with the chair of the task force, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, on how to increase the number of minorities working in health care.
Martinez will continue to be the executive director of the Hogg Foundation while working on the COVID-19 health equity task force, which he s been told could last for a few weeks or up to two years. He will use vacation time and personal time to for task force work.
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Ever since her kids were tots, Austin mom Natalie Chodniewicz, 46, has played a game she calls Popcorn Thanks.
At any moment, they would stop to say what they were thankful for, and the ideas of gratitude would pop like popcorn from one kid to the other. What s good in our life, what happened today that were thankful for, she says.
Her sons Beckham, Asher and Edison, who are 10, 8 and 6, are growing up in a flash, Chodniewicz says. She thought, What can I do to memorialize this childhood?
She thought about their game of Popcorn Thanks and decided to turn it into a book.