{"id":4587,"date":"2019-02-05T20:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/?p=4587"},"modified":"2024-05-09T03:33:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T03:33:07","slug":"lunar-new-year-at-flushing-hospital-medical-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/lunar-new-year-at-flushing-hospital-medical-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year at Flushing Hospital Medical Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year to celebrate Lunar New Year (The Year of the Pig), Flushing Hospital Medical Center&#8217;s Food and Nutrition Department handed out Mandarin oranges with a Happy New Year card to patients, visitors and staff.\u00a0 This gesture is in keeping with FHMC&#8217;S commitment to cultural sensitivity. The Chinese word for mandarin is <em>kam, <\/em>which sounds similar to the word for <em>gold.<\/em>\u00a0 Therefore, having mandarin oranges with you around New Year is thought to bring fortune into your life.\u00a0 The patients, staff and visitors were all appreciative.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Lunar New Year!!!<\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer\">All content of this newsletter is intended for general information purposes only and is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.  Please consult a medical professional before adopting any of the suggestions on this page.   You must never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking medical treatment based upon any content of this newsletter.<strong>  PROMPTLY CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN OR CALL 911 IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.<\/strong> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year to celebrate Lunar New Year (The Year of the Pig), Flushing Hospital Medical Center&#8217;s Food and Nutrition Department handed out Mandarin oranges with a Happy New Year card to patients, visitors and staff.\u00a0 This gesture is in keeping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/lunar-new-year-at-flushing-hospital-medical-center\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1671],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-lunarnewyear-yearofthepig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8730,"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions\/8730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flushinghospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}