Assessing and addressing community health

HEATH/ROCKWALL,TX. (June 27, 2014) In healthcare, we thrive on change – especially when it arrives as expanded health care offerings, new specialties, technology and other avenues of growth. Last year, Texas Health Rockwall conducted a Community Health Needs Assessment to better understand the health status and needs of our community. This assessment, which you can […]

A better bridge

ROCKWALL/ HEATH, TX. (June 27, 2014) For several months I walked my dog along the farm road that crosses the creek bordering our neighborhood. Barricades had closed the road to traffic while a road crew worked to replace an old, unsafe bridge with a better one. Without trucks and SUV’s whizzing by, it felt like […]

Yeah! Summer’s here, so there’s no more math!

ROCKWALL, TX (June 27, 2014) For the last couple of weeks, the happy faces of our students have been a sure sign that summer is here. With the assurance that there is no need for math now, children officially begin the process of forgetting much of what they learned during the previous school year. In […]

iGo Global: Helping students learn to make God famous

WYLIE/ROCKWALL, TX (June 25, 2014) Lance Shumake wants to see students involved in missions, and more specifically, to see this generation of students living “on mission.” As President of iGo Global for 14 years, Shumake has overseen high school and college student teams travel to 21 countries to help fulfill Christ’s Great Commission to make […]

The heart of relationships: effective communication

June 25, 2014- To know who our children really are, we need to observe our children at work and play.  J Krishnamurti, the Indian philosopher, wrote that the highest form of human intelligence is observing without evaluating. The more I observe the more I understand Krishnamurti.  Observation and evaluation serve us best as separate activities.  […]

Rockwall Urgent Care voted Best Urgent Care

ROCKWALL, TX (June 12,2014) The owners and staff at Rockwall Urgent Care would like to thank the people of Rockwall and Heath for selecting them BEST URGENT CARE in Living Magazine’s 2014 Readers Choice Awards. Readers of both the print and online divisions o f Living Magazine voted earlier in 2014 and selected their favorite […]