St. Joseph’s/Candler provides many extra benefits to our patients and community in order to help ensure we are all living a smart, healthy lifestyle. Throughout our website, you will find links to a variety of resources and educational tools that will help you reach your own personal health goals.
Here are some of our most popular resources:
The Body Guide
The Body Guide is a unique visual road map of the human body.
You can learn about the different systems of the body through both male & female views, interactive anatomy, illustrations, and text. You can toggle easily between views of the male and female anatomies. A mouse-over feature provides specific nomenclature of over 230 hot spots, identifying various structures within the 12 major systems of the human body, providing links to related anatomical and physiological articles. This visually rich tool features over 90 full-color illustrations.
Surgeries and Procedures
Surgeries and Procedures is a series of 151 fully-illustrated, interactive health presentations that depict common surgeries, tests, and procedures with over 600 full-color medical images, labels, and descriptive information. Each presentation offers a step-by-step explanation of many surgeries and procedures. Anytime you need answers to common surgical or procedural questions, this resource offers easy-to-understand answers about complex medical topics.
Health Encyclopedia
St. Joseph’s/Candler offers A.D.A.M.’s Health Illustrated Encyclopedia, a comprehensive, continuously updated knowledge-base that includes diseases and conditions, symptoms, tests, surgeries, and more. The Health Illustrated Encyclopedia describes over 1,600 diseases and conditions with over 3,600 articles. High-quality medical illustrations, photographs and diagrams complement the articles and provide an unsurpassed educational experience. Each article and illustration meets rigorous editorial standards to provide you with accurate and trustworthy health information.
Smart Senior
SmartSenior is a comprehensive senior care program with more than 4,200 members. For a low annual membership fee of $15 per person, we provide our members with free medical screenings, education, merchant and cafeteria discounts, counseling and special events. Members also receive aSmartSenior Newsletter, created to keep you informed of these events as well as news on the latest medical treatments and procedures.
Health Risk Assessments
Our Health Promotions program is a comprehensive wellness program that provides health screenings and education through the community. The goal of the program is to assist you in identifying your personal health practices and history, which can place you at risk for chronic disease and associated complications. Basic and comprehensive screenings help to identify these risks, which can be managed with our wide variety of written materials, classes and counseling.
Educational Classes
St. Joseph’s/Candler understands the value of education in healthcare, which is why we offer a variety of educational classes to the community. These classes cover topics like stopping smoking, childbirth preparation, women’s health, CPR classes, nutrition, cardiovascular health, oncology and more. We also offer monthly health forums on a wide range of topics that are open and free to the community.
Support Groups
St. Joseph’s/Candler sponsors a large number of support groups and programs that are held regularly to educate and support members of the community. In addition, a number of community groups hold meetings at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Candler Hospital where we provide free meeting space.
Ronald McDonald Family Room
Located on the Candler Campus, the Ronald McDonald Family Room offers families of our pediatric patients (patients under 18 years of age) a place to rest, computers to check email or do research on your child’s illness, light snacks and drinks, laundry facilities, a children’s playroom for healthy siblings and two quiet areas for napping.
Children’s Place to Be Fit
The Children's Place To Be Fit is a child-friendly exercise environment complete with child-size equipment, exercise and wellness programs for children. This program is offered exclusively at the Islands YMCA, Southside YMCA and West Chatham YMCA.
Bearly Sick
Originally developed as a service for employees of St. Joseph’s/Candler, Bearly Sick takes care of your child when you can’t. Located near The Children’s Place on the Candler Hospital campus, the program is open to the public for children three months to 14 years of age who are too sick to go to school or daycare. Children can be dropped off any time after 6:30 a.m. and must be picked up by 6:30 p.m. This service is offered for a modest fee, and parents can pay cash or use a personal check.
YMCA Health Connection
The Health Connection is a unique partnership established between St. Joseph’s/Candler and the YMCAs of Coastal Georgia. YMCA members receive added value to their membership by accessing the experience and expertise of St. Joseph’s/Candler medical personnel to assist them with their wellness goals. Members are encouraged to participate in an annual comprehensive health risk appraisal and physiological screening, free of charge. Trained, clinical staff are on site to monitor YMCA members who have chronic illness or injuries that may require special attention. Other services include dietary and nutritional counseling, weight control programs and stress management.
Mommy and Me Boutique
This unique boutique specializes in offering personal service to moms-to-be or new moms. The staff includes board-certified lactation specialists who will assist you with your breastfeeding needs, including any pre-natal breastfeeding questions, breastfeeding purchases (pumps, bras, breast care products), postpartum breastfeeding support. The boutique offers a full line of nursing bras that can be custom fit for you by a certified bra fitter. Additionally, the boutique carries a full line of skin care for Moms to be and baby as well as nursing gowns, slings, and handmade baby items such a minkies and lovies, clothes, and other unique gifts.
Physician Directory
This directory is a convenient resource for you to find physicians on the medical staff at
St. Joseph’s/Candler. It provides easy access to physician’s specialties, address and phone number.
Personal Wellness Profile
The Personal Wellness Profile is a questionnaire that is used to evaluate a person’s risk for chronic disease based on their health habits. It assists our staff in providing you with the correct educational materials and support needed to help you make informed decisions about your health. This service is provided to members of The Care Network and the YMCA’s of Coastal Georgia.
CareCall
CareCall provides a health care and physician referral hotline from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Registered nurses are available to assess your symptoms, provide you with information and education, and direct you to the appropriate source of care. The registered nurses provide triage advice, and other healthcare-related information such as general health information, audio library health topics, physician referral assistance and community service information.
